FUCHS Lubricants Co., the world’s largest independent lubricant manufacturer, is pleased to announce the published Boeing BAC 5008 Sections 5-6 approval for ECOCOOL GLOBAL 1000, an advanced water-miscible metalworking fluid engineered for the demanding requirements of aerospace machining. Designed...
SeAH Aerospace Materials, a subsidiary of SeAH Besteel Holdings, has made an announcement of signing a long-term agreement with Boeing to provide high-strength aluminium alloy materials to the latter, the largest aircraft manufacturer in the world. Under the contract, starting from 2026, SeAH will...
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Leading aerospace manufacturer Alcoa has signed a long-term contract to supply aluminum sheet and plate products to Boeing, the world’s largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial jetliners and defense, space and security systems. The multiyear contract, valued at more than $1...
Taber Extrusions LLC, the industry leader in large press aluminum extrusions, is the proud recipient of the Boeing Performance Excellence Award (BPEA) for 2013. Taber received this award based on a twelve-month period with 100% on-time delivery and a 100% quality rating. For 2013, Boeing recognized...
Boeing and Apple will work together to "weaponise" Apple technology, after the aerospace giant found aluminium-milling techniques developed by Apple to build the MacBook Air's case result in a stronger, more versatile aircraft wings than it is possible to create with its own manufacturing...
Kaiser Aluminum Corporation and Boeing announced they have formed a closed-loop scrap recycling program that is expected to involve approximately 22 million pounds of aluminum during the 2014-2015 production period. "The recycling agreement illustrates our collaborative relationship with Boeing,"...
With backlogs at Boeing and Airbus Group at record levels, the boom in commercial-airplane manufacturing is expected to continue for some time. That's good news for Kaiser Aluminum, a maker of lightweight aluminum plate used in commercial planes. Kaiser, based in Foothill Ranch, Calif., is a...
Aleris said it has signed a multiyear agreement with Boeing to supply the aircraft maker with aluminum aerospace plate and sheet. Aleris, an aluminum recycler and producer of aluminum products, did not specify the value of the work for Boeing. However, Aleris did say aluminum plate and sheet...
AMAG Austria Metall has won a multi-year contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars to supply aircraft maker Boeing with aluminium sheets and strips, it said. "With the success of this contract, the years-long partnership with Boeing will be expanded on the basis of significantly greater supply...
Aleris announced today it has achieved AS 9100 certification for the new rolling mill in Zhenjiang, China, which is the standard approval for production of aircraft aluminum plate. Chinese Branch of TUV SUD (Technischer Uberwachungsverein), a German certification body performed the audit for this...
Worldwide, nearly a thousand major aircraft are due for disposal each year and yet the industry is 'short of procedural methods' for recycling them, according to Prof. Dr Joerg Woidasky of Pforzheim University in Germany. However, 'the field of aircraft recycling is developing very fast at the...
With some 1000 heavy airliners in need of disposal each year and modern planes being made from compounds instead of just aluminium, there is a need for more research and communication between the recycling and aviation industries. This is one of the messages to come out of the first International...
Constellium N.V. announced today that the company has been awarded a multi-year agreement with The Boeing Company to support all of The Boeing Company's leading commercial airplane programs. With this agreement, Constellium will increase both the scope and range of products it supplies. Under the...
A MillerCoors LLC official will reportedly speak in front of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee next week to call out big banks for alleged anti-competitive actions in the aluminum market, according to a Huffington Post story published Tuesday. The HuffPo story said Chicago-based joint venture...
Aerospace aluminum plate demand is expected to surge in coming years as aircraft manufacturers make more and bigger planes and aluminum-lithium alloys gain traction in the market, according to a recent analyst report on the sector. The potential growth should significantly boost prices, increase...
A loose coalition of beer brewers, automakers, Boeing and Coca-Cola is accusing big banks, including Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase, of anti-competitive behavior in the aluminum market, fueling regulatory concerns and prompting a Senate probe as part of an international political battle over Wall...
Alcoa Inc., the largest US aluminium producer, reported earnings that beat analysts’ estimates after a better-than-expected performance at its unit that supplies components to aerospace and power companies. Profit excluding expenses related to output cuts and a legal settlement were 7 cents a...
A report by Reuters suggested that aluminium is still the material of choice for the aerospace industry despite the introduction (and use) of carbon composites, particularly on new-generation wide-bodied airliners. With the light metal’s percentage share of the aerospace market estimated to grow by...
Metal is staging a comeback, at least in the aerospace world, where aluminium has been challenged by newfangled carbon-composites in the industry's perpetual war on weight. As plane makers showed off their latest carbon-plastic jetliners at the Paris Airshow this week, metal firms lobbied hard for...
Alcoa Inc. and Boeing Co.announced Wednesday at the Paris Air Show that they will be teaming up to form a closed-loop program aimed at significantly increasing the recycling of internal aluminum aerospace alloys used in the production of Boeing airplanes. Alcoa said the program will entail...
