Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have advanced the use of DuAlumin-3D for high-temperature automotive components, opening new possibilities for stronger, lighter 3D-printed aluminium parts in engines and beyond. Aluminium has long been attractive for automotive components because it...
India’s public-sector banks have proposed putting electric vehicles, charging networks, battery-swapping infrastructure and climate-transition projects into a clearer priority-sector lending framework. The plan could direct more formal credit toward the systems needed to scale electric mobility,...
Grow with
AL Circle
Japan's Kobe Steel Ltd will spend 100 billion yen ($900 million) over the next five years to boost steel and aluminium supplies to automakers and aircraft manufacturers as it looks to drive growth and counter faltering demand in China. Steel producers in high-cost countries say their best hope for...
The Pakistan Association of Automotive Parts and Accessories Manufacturers (Paapam) has urged the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to immediately withdraw the new regulatory duty on all raw materials that they import. The government has recently imposed 15 per cent additional import duty on different...
China aluminium semis exports shrunk in February and the trend is expected to continue in March as well. General Customs data showed that the country exported 260,000 metric tons of semis, which is down 34.1 per cent year-on-year and down from January’s total of 330,000 metric tons. The SHFE/LME...
As automobile manufacturers and operators look for ways to improve fuel economy and freight efficiency, lightweighting tops the list. Investing in lightweighting is an attractive and economical alternative to adding new equipment, potentially saving fleets nearly $1 million over five years,...
Car assemblers in Pakistan are likely to further increase prices of their different variants aimed at passing on the financial impact of recent increase of 15 percent in Regulatory Duty (RD) on iron and steel products and 10 percent on aluminium alloy, according to well informed industry sources....
As the global car industry is going greener, South Korean carmakers are working on making car bodies as light as possible to guarantee higher fuel efficiency, meaning less greenhouse gas emissions. Kia Motors Corp. said Thursday that it used aluminium made by U.S.-based leading automotive aluminium...
The automotive sector being driven largely by innovation is steadily moving away from copper toward lightweight aluminium to help the industry cut vehicle weight. This has become imperative since they need to meet stricter emission standards. Having already switched to aluminium radiators from...
Mercedes-Benz SA wants the government to encourage local beneficiation of aluminium, which would allow motor companies to stop importing up to 50 per cent of metals used in their cars. CEO Arno van der Merwe said on Thursday his company was working with the industry and the government to identify...
The amount of light, recyclable aluminium in European cars will rise to 180 kg on average by 2020 as automakers look to cut harmful carbon emissions, a senior metals industry official said. Global targets to curb greenhouse gases are prompting a shift to aluminium away from other, heavier metals...
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indonesia, a local unit of the Japanese automotive giant, has inaugurated its fifth factory in the country on Monday in Karawang International Industrial City, an industrial area in West Java. The opening marks a significant milestone for Indonesia after the country took...
Following in the footsteps of parent company BMW, Rolls-Royce announced the development of a future vehicle platform composed of a lightweight aluminium space-frame. Like the new BMW 7-Series, which uses a new chassis almost entirely composed of aluminium and lightweight carbon composite material,...
It's the first time Audi has done an S performance version of its flagship sport-ute, and packs under the hood a 4.0-liter V8 turbo diesel engine mated to an eight-speed automatic and all-wheel drive. It produces a potent 435 horsepower, and an absolutely bonkers 664 pound-feet of torque. That's...
Responding to the need for more specialized, rugged and capable work trucks such as aerial lifts, field-service vehicles and medium-duty haulers, Ford Motor Co. is debuting a new chassis-cab model of its aluminium-bodied Super Duty trucks at this month’s Work Truck Show. Employing a new,...
Chery Automobile Co. has broken ground on its ambitious aluminum alloy-body electric passenger vehicle project on February 23. It is reported that the 1.56 billion yuan project will be built in two phases. The first phase will enter operations in 2016 with an initial annual capacity of 10,000...
Volvo Cars gives its bestselling V40 and V40 Cross Country the new face of Volvo for Model Year 2017 with trim updates across the range. V40 will feature upscale aluminium interiors along with other critical components made from the lightweight metal. Central to the model year exterior updates are...
Rockman Industries, a Hero Group company, and one of the largest suppliers of aluminium die casting, two-wheeler alloy wheels and chain in India, has targeted a turnover of INR 5,000 crore by 2020. According to company officials, revenue grew by 20 percent YoY during FY 2014-15 when its turnover...
After news of Toyota’s recent supply chain troubles, so ably covered by my colleague Lisa Reisman last week, news from the US car industry, by contrast, couldn’t be better. General Motors reported $9.7 billion net income for 2015 as it was bolstered by buoyant US light-truck sales. Results for the...
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) will invest £36m over the next three years in renewable energy, energy efficiency and process improvements, according to the British carmaker's latest sustainability report. In its latest responsible business performance update, released yesterday, 2 February, JLR said an...
