Aluminium extrusion usage in building and construction to grow 1.24% CAGR through 2035, with Americas at 1.15%, Europe at 1.30% & MEA at 2.47%
What does the building and construction market mean for aluminium extrusion industry? The answer may depend less on how much the world builds and more on where it builds and what those buildings require. As construction activity picks up across regions, aluminium extrusion is set to follow - but...
Meagan Lalonde joins Metra North America as Architectural Sales Manager
Metra North America, leading manufacturer of engineered architectural systems specialising in custom fenestration, curtain wall, and building envelope solutions, has announced that Meagan Lalonde has joined the company as Architectural Sales Manager. Lalonde brings more than a decade of experience...
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EconCore develops composites panels with thermoplastic honeycomb core and aluminium skin
EconCore, a technology provider for continuous production of honeycomb sandwich materials has developed new generation of aluminium composites panels. Within the conventional process, a relatively thick layer of polymer is extruded in between two layers of aluminium sheet. EconCore technology...
Sapa delivers record results in first quarter
Sapa has delivered the strongest first quarter since the company was established in 2013. The demand for lighter cars in both North America and Europe, resulting in aluminium substitution in the automotive industry, is contributing positively. Owners Orkla and Hydro reported to the financial...
Aluminium supply to tighten, prices to rise: Rusal’s Soloviev
Global demand for aluminium will continue to remain strong as worldwide supply tightens. This will raise prices from seven-year lows, says Vladislav Soloviev, chief executive of Russia’s UC Rusal, the world’s second-biggest aluminium producer. Exports of processed aluminium from the People’s...
Canadian firm OpenAire to build giant aluminium skyline for UAE mall
OpenAire, a Canadian designer of eco-friendly roof structures, said it has won a contract to manufacture a huge, aluminium elliptical-shaped dome for a 280,000-sq-ft shopping mall in Sharjah, UAE. Located less than 10 km from Dubai, the 31-storey complex will rise from the city's waterfront like an...
SAF installs cut-to-length aluminium coil processing line
SAF (Southern Aluminium Finishing Co.) recently installed a Cut-To-Length (CTL) aluminium coil processing line in their SAF-West, Redding, CA plant. The heart of the line is a Herr-Voss 6 hi corrective leveler to enhance processing of non-ferrous coil for surface critical sheet with the flatness...
Aluminium pressure diecasting maker JVM pumps £1m into Tamworth operation
The British aluminium pressure diecasting manufacturer JVM Castings has invested more than £1m into its Tamworth site in a move that has will create 14 jobs. The business has installed additional machinery and invested in sustainable processes at its facility on the Lichfield Road Industrial...
MCX Aluminium slides on subdued demand
Select base metals including aluminium weakened by INR 2 per kg in India's non-ferrous market (Multi Commodity Exchange) today following muted demand from the end user industries namely, transport, electricals, construction, packaging, and others. Following are today's metal rates (in INR per kg):...
Aluminum Extruders Council to develop industry-wide EPD
The Aluminum Extruders Council (AEC) announced that it has launched a program to develop a set of industry-sanctioned Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) that will document the environmental performance of aluminium extrusions produced in the U.S. and Canada. An EPD is an independently...
Aluminium architectural solution manufacturer announces product expansion
AB Glass, one the UK’s leading architectural aluminium manufactures and installers, has launched a new range of bespoke, aluminium folding doors for homes, which are all made from sustainable materials. Smart Bi-folds by AB Glass will feature high specification aluminium lifestyle designer products...
Vivocom’s Neata bags projects totalling RM37.5 million
Vivocom Intl Holdings Bhd’s (Vivocom) subsidiary, Neata Aluminium (M) Sdn Bhd (Neata), was awarded RM37.5 million worth of contracts yesterday, with the latest projects being Third Avenue Cyberjaya for an amount of RM22.5 million, and Kemensah Development for an amount of RM15 million for the...
Japanese architecture firm clads art centre in porous aluminium panels
Kengo Kuma and Associates has built an art centre with an intricate aluminium-moulded facade at a former cotton mill in China, which has been converted into a shop and office complex. Kengo Kuma's Japan-based firm converted the entire 10,440-square-metre mill to create the new retail, office and...
Mumbai gets a revamped fleet of 83 full-aluminium bodied buses
BEST (Brihanmumbai Electric Supply & Transport Undertaking) in Mumbai got a revamped fleet of 83 buses last Sunday at a cost of INR 7 crore, with 147 more to arrive in the coming weeks. The buses have aluminium bodies, which will not corrode in Mumbai's weather, and a host of other features,...
GG Glass and Glazing’s new Supertrucks feature aluminium extrusions
GG Glass & Glazing, one of the UK’s leading contract glazing specialists, has opted for Supertrucks built from aluminium extrusions, for transporting glass sheets to retail outlets and other commercial premises where it supplies its range of products. Based on 7.5-tonne Isuzu chassis, the vehicles...
Napco revenue surges 28% to OMR24.8 mln
National Aluminium Products Company (Napco), one of the leading extruders of aluminium profiles in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), has registered a remarkable performance for 2015, achieving robust growth volume in the local market as well as exports. The company earned revenues of OMR24.8...
International Space Station: A unique assemblage of aluminium and other metals, writes David Nixon
The International Space Station, located 250 miles above the earth, is an assemblage of aluminium, titanium, steel and Kevlar components, worth USD 160 billion. David Nixon, a British architect with special interest in space architecture, in his book has described it as a masterpiece of...
India’s aluminium demand to rise to 20 mt, says Vedanta Chief
The total consumption of aluminium in India is going to experience a major leap in the foreseeable future reaching 20 million tonnes (mt) from the present 2mt, claims Vedanta Resources Chairman Anil Agarwal. According to Mr. Agarwal, “It (India’s aluminium consumption) is going to be 20 mt. Large...
China's Sinolight Aluminium introduces aluminium coils, discs for industrial applications
Sinolight Aluminium, the largest aluminium processing enterprise in China, has introduced a wide range of aluminium coils, discs foils, color coated coils etc for industries around the world. Aluminium is a light metal and its coils, discs, foils could be used in a variety of industries. China...
Global aluminium extrusion market to exceed 22 mln mt by 2019
According to a latest market research study, the global aluminium extrusion market is expected to exceed 22 million metric tonnes by 2019, growing at a CAGR of almost 7 per cent during the forecast period. According to Chandrakumar Badala Jaganathan, a noted analyst for metals and minerals...
