New DuAlumin-3D alloy could unlock stronger 3D-printed aluminium engine parts
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 banks propose priority lending for EV charging and e-fleets
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,...
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The aluminium-bodied 2015 F-150 being put to the test
Ford Motor is all set to test the aluminium bodied F-150. The car that is going to be released later this year is currently touring 26 cities for demonstration and introducing the sales personnel to the new pick up trucks. This aluminium truck has created a lot of interest in the auto industry...
Increased car sales in US boost aluminium prices
The cash price of aluminium has risen from $1,725.93 per tonne in January to $2,029.55 per tonne, which is the current price. The overall jump in the LME aluminium prices is recorded at 15% since the beginning of the year. Mintec explains that the price rise is largely due to the falling aluminium...
JLR to unveil Jaguar XE in London on Monday
Jaguar Land Rover is set to launch its much-anticipated Jaguar XE on Monday, a compact car that will help the Tata Motors’ premium division take on the likes of the Audi A4, BMW 3 Series and Mercedez Benz C Class. Jaguar Land Rover has gradually been releasing details of the car — due to be...
Atlas Copco bets on new car assembly technologies
Atlas Copco’s interest in new assembly technologies has been spurred by a trend among car makers to use more aluminium to reduce the weight of their vehicles. Swedish engineer Atlas Copco is investing in new techniques for assembling cars, believing powerful adhesives and new rivets could see a...
Aluminum shipments to Oswego to increase
The Port of Oswego has seen record levels of aluminum shipments so far this year and shipments between the port and the St. Lawrence Seaway are expected to increase by 30 percent this year, according to the Chamber of Marine Commerce, a bi-national association that represents approximately 150...
Automotive industry relies on aluminium and multi-material solutions to lightweight vehicles
While aluminium is expected to be relied on heavily to meet new fuel efficiency standards for vehicles, multi-material solutions, engineering plastics and advanced composites will also play a key role, according to a WardsAuto survey sponsored by DuPont. CAFE standards 64% of the nearly 900...
Kobe Aluminum Automotive Products boosts production capacity of aluminum forged suspension parts by 50%
Kobe Steel, Ltd.'s U.S. joint venture, Kobe Aluminum Automotive Products, LLC (or KAAP), has increased its production capacity of aluminum forged products for automotive suspension systems by 50 percent. Based in Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA, KAAP began construction of a $66-million expansion of...
Jiangsu Asia-Pacific Light Alloy Technology Co. enjoys a 28.98% hike in profits
In the first six months of the year, the Jiangsu Asia-Pacific Light Alloy Technology Co. enjoyed a year-on-year rise in profits by 28.98% amounting to 93.92 million Yuan according to their semi annual financial report. The rise in profits is accounted to an increasing demand in the automobile...
Ford races to rebuild truck plant for aluminum F-150
Carefully choreographed chaos is under way in and around Ford's historic Dearborn Truck Plant as the automaker races to get it ready to build a very different F-series truck. On Saturday morning the last steel-bodied 2014 Ford F-150 rolled off the line and workers were ripping up equipment behind...
Aluminum Association to present at SCRS' OEM Collision Repair Technology Summit
The Society of Collision Repair Specialists (SCRS) has announced that Doug Richman, Technical Committee chairman of the Aluminum Transportation Group (ATG), will offer insight into the role aluminum will play in collision repair businesses now and in the future at the OEM Collision Repair...
World's biggest aluminum supplier says automotive-grade sales will triple
Novelis, based out of Atlanta, is the largest supplier of aluminum sheet to the auto industry, counting Ford, Audi and Jaguar among its clients. It's owned by Mumbai, India-based metals company Hindalco, the world's largest producer of aluminum sheet, and company reps see the aluminum market and...
Mercedes Benz and Renault replace aluminum pistons with steel pistons
Aluminum, which is a material that modern diesel engine pistons have been using may get replaced by steel. Mercedes Benz and Renault are two such big automaker who are replacing aluminum pistons in diesel engines with steel ones. This change will make diesel engines more fuel efficient to the tune...
Lightweighting goals top automotive design and manufacturing survey
DuPont has published the results of a new survey conducted with WardsAuto that asks the automotive design and engineering community what technologies they are working on to reduce emissions and improve fuel economy. Topping the list was lightweighting, engine efficiency programs, vehicle...
The automotive industry embraces the “lightweight” trend
A new survey among the designers and engineers involved with the automotive industry sees “lightweighting” as the newest trend in automotive production, as both US and Europe are facing tougher new fuel economy goals in the years to come. Ford’s upcoming sales start of the aluminum-made F-150 truck...
JLR still tops when it comes to aluminum
With total global sales of 425,000 vehicles last year, Britain’s Jaguar Land Rover is well behind German rivals BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Audi. But there is an asterisk next to the sales figures for luxury car companies. Today, no one makes more aluminum-bodied vehicles than JLR. Its latest, the...
More aluminum capacity to be dedicated to Autos in North America
Alcoa and its competitors have enough rolling capacity in North America to meet demands from automakers for more sheet aluminum, but aluminum-intensive vehicles will take material away from other uses, says Mike Murphy, vice president-automotive at Alcoa. The losers will be the lowest-margin...
Novelis expects to double auto aluminum production in 4 years
Novelis Inc., the world’s largest sheet aluminum producer, said today it expects to double its North American production of automotive aluminum by 2018 or so from 2014 levels. The company said it plans to produce 260,000 tons of automotive aluminum in North America in 2014, up from about 50,000...
Bluegrass poised to produce most aluminum in U.S.
With more than 20,000 Kentuckians working in it, the state aluminum business is booming, according to the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development. Earlier this year, Europe-based Constellium N.V. and UACJ Corporation, of Japan, announced plans to open a joint $150 million aluminum facility in...
