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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Aluminum E-Tipper offers lightweight efficiency
Crysteel’s aluminum E-Tipper dump body offers contractors durability and lightweight efficiency, weighing up to 50 percent less than traditional carbon steel dump bodies. This results in fuel cost savings, as well as less wear on tires and brakes. Lightweight aluminum also offers increased payload...
Aluminium industry needs to promote itself – Hydro
The aluminium industry has a job to do in promoting the metal’s key advantages over others in order to stay ahead of its competitive peers, a senior executive at Norsk Hydro said. The benefits of recycling and sustainability need to be better communicated ,Oliver Bell, executive vice president of...
Alupro launches 2nd Alu D&T Challenge for schools
Key Stage Three pupils (11-14 year olds) are being invited to take up the Alu Design & Technology (D&T) Challenge, a national competition encouraging students to think about the importance of sustainable design, using aluminium. Returning for its second year the exciting competition is part of a...
China Xinfa's H1 profit jumps 154% on increased sales of construction aluminium profiles
China's Xinfa Aluminium Holdings Ltd. reported a 154% year-on-year jump in first half profit on increased sales of aluminium profiles for construction use. The leading aluminium profile manufacturer’s net profit was 47 million yuan ($50.8 million) or 0.11 yuan per sharein the first six months,...
Structures USA plans $3.3M plant in Kentucky
Structures USA LLC plans to build a $3.3-million steel and aluminum tubular products manufacturing facility in Elizabethtown, Ky., according to the state’s governor. The company, a manufacturing arm of Mars, Pa.-based VSI Sales LLC, will create 50 jobs in the next few years as it looks to supply...
Inventories, surplus output pile pressure on aluminium prices
Tepid demand from principal consumption points like automobile, packaging and construction, yet to recover from the mauling of the world recession, has left the aluminium industry in deepest crisis. Industry giants from the US to Europe to China are sufficiently bedraggled by aluminium prices...
China steel, semi-finished aluminum prices up
Higher Chinese steel prices, particularly for rebar and H-beam, as well as higher semi-finished aluminum prices, drove the monthly Construction MMI up 2.3% for September – but the outlook for the US construction industry in general appears muted. Take, for example, the housing market. Whereas...
Anglian launches new range of aluminium windows and doors
A new range of aluminium windows and doors has been launched by Anglian Home Improvements, offering a sleek, modern and long-lasting finish. The new aluminium collection comprises a wide range of styles including casement windows, bi-fold doors and sliding patio doors. Available in any RAL colour,...
Bailey Alu-Tech construction system celebrates fifth anniversary
When Bailey began developing a redesign of their products' construction in 2007, the industry had seen few attempts at modernising the standard design. The market was full of conventionally assembled caravans, consisting of sandwich construction timber frame laminated and semi-laminated panels,...
Greco Aluminum Railings USA Hires new president
Officials from Greco Aluminum Railings USA Inc., a subsidiary of Greco Aluminum Railings LDT, announced Jim Ellsworth as president of the company’s U.S. operations, according to an Aug. 27 company release. Ellsworth joined Greco in May 2013 and was recently appointed president. Ellsworth brings...
TruckCraft launches aluminum service body
TruckCraft introduced its new Lancer, an aluminum service body for single rear wheel pickup chassis. The company said the unit’s deck floor and understructure are made from extruded 6061 T6 alloy with tensile strength equivalent to steel, the that the body weighs just 640 lbs, about what a typical...
Bending specialist Kersten Europe to open its latest production facility at Ras Al Khaimah
European bending specialist Kersten Europe will open its latest production facility, Kersten Middle East, in the United Arab Emirates this upcoming October. The company has said that its 4,100ft new production plant in the Emirate will open in October this year. Work on the factory started in in...
DSM launches 70% bio-based material for Aluminum window producers
Royal DSM says its new EcoPaxx polyamide 410, which has a bio-based content of 70%, can help reduce the environmental footprint of aluminium window profiles. The material, used in insulating profiles, is made from a material drived from the castor plant (Ricinus Communis). It is carbon neutral from...
SAF announces new 3-day-out paint program for Aluminum Extrusions & Sheet
SAF (Southern Aluminum Finishing Co., Inc.) adds a 3 day paint service for their stock aluminum extrusions and sheet. The SAF 3-Day-Out Paint Program features quality Fluoropolymer, AAMA 2605 compliant painted extrusions and sheets in just 3 business days. "With coordinated efforts throughout the...
AGC to expand Indonesian Caustic Soda output to meet growing demand
AGC announces that it will invest approximately 40 billion yen to significantly increase the production capacity of its Indonesian subsidiary P.T. Asahimas Chemical (ASC) to meet growing demand for chlor-alkali products, such as caustic soda and vinyl chloride, in the Southeast Asia region. In...
Somerville Aluminum adds kitchen and bath designers to remodeling team
With its new state-of-the-art, 15,000 square foot showroom in Branchburg, Somerville Aluminum is taking home remodeling and design to a new level with the addition of the kitchen and bath design team duo of Mary Jane Iksic and Elizabeth Loree, enabling the company to better serve the remodeling and...
Patriot Aluminum building new HQ in Louisa County
Patriot Aluminum is moving its headquarters from Albemarle County to Louisa County. The new 30,000-square-foot facility will be located in the Ferncliff Business Park about a half-mile from Interstate 64. The existing headquarters is in Earlysville. The company broke ground for the new $1.5 million...
AluK offers innovative solutions for aluminium systems
AluK (GB) Ltd, the leading aluminium window, door and curtain walling systems manufacturer, has announced that its CPD, BIM: Aluminium Façade Systems – modelling, design, construction, standards and collaboration, has been RIBA accredited. AluK is the first aluminium systems manufacturer to offer a...
