India's hidden urban mines are going to landfills: Why e-waste needs a second life
As smartphones, laptops, televisions, electric vehicles, and household appliances become an integral part of modern life, electronic waste (e-waste) is emerging as one of the world's fastest-growing waste streams. Yet, every discarded electronic device contains more than just obsolete technology—it...
Stricter fines, greater scope for innovation: Hungary targets cleaner practices in battery manufacturing
Hungary will raise the maximum fine for serious environmental violations by large manufacturers to 5 billion forints (USD 16 million) under new measures to strengthen environmental oversight across industries, including EV battery manufacturing, recycling, and decommissioning. The changes come as...
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Metallurgical Arc joining of steel and aluminium to make hybrid sheets
An impressive innovation has shifted the limits of welding still further: Whereas steel and aluminium were once thought to be incapable of thermal joining, this is now perfectly feasible in actual practice. The revolutionary solution has made the visions of material experts, design engineers and...
Metallurgical Arc-joining of Steel and Aluminium to Make Hybrid Sheets
An impressive innovation has shifted the limits of welding still further: Whereas steel and aluminium were once thought to be incapable of thermal joining, this is now perfectly feasible in actual practice. The revolutionary solution has made the visions of material experts, design engineers and...
BMW Shuns Steel, Shows Preference For Carbon Fiber and Aluminum
BMW has revealed details of just one of the projects they have been spending all those millions of euros of profit on recently. BMW has released details of two concept cars which they hope will be sufficiently different from all the other EV and hybrid offerings out there to generate volume sales....
Novelis sees aluminum demand, consumer growth
Aluminum products maker Novelis expects strong demand from the auto industry to offset softness in the U.S. beverage can business and a pullback by European electronics consumers, its chief executive said on Tuesday. Phil Martens said fiscal second-quarter results could be slightly better than a...
LEONI : reduces component weight by 50 percent
Leoni, the leading provider of cables and cable systems to the automotive sector and other industries, now offers a solid aluminium conductor for the motor vehicle industry to wire the battery as an alternative to the common copper cable. It can be shaped in three dimensions and weighs only about...
Auto survey: Aluminum has slight advantage over plastics as fuel rules change
Rising fuel-economy performance will “fundamentally change” the way cars and trucks are made in the U.S., according to a new survey of parts suppliers and automakers. Much of that change will include materials used in vehicle production, with plastics and carbon-fiber composites running just behind...
SEI’s Aluminum-Celmet To Make Electric Vehicles 300% More Efficient
Sumitomo Electric Industries (SEI) is a Japanese company that has developed porous aluminum which can potentially boost the efficiency of electric vehicles (EVs) by over 300%. SEI manufactures electric cables, wires and optic-fiber cable. The porous aluminum developed by SEI can be combined with...
The Japan Furukawa Sky attends 2011 China International Aluminum Industry Expo
Asia's largest aluminum industry expo "ALUMINIUMCHINA2011" will be held in Shanghai international expo center in July 13 to 15. One of the Japan’s largest integrated aluminum metal roll producers Furukawa Sky will participate in this exhibition for the fifth time. Then the products what are thick...
Sumitomo Chemical Announces Production Capacity Expansion for High-Purity Alumina
Sumitomo Chemical announced that it has planned to construct a new production line to increase the manufacturing capacity of high-purity alumina. The production capacity will be increased from 1,600 tons to 3,200 tons per year. The high-purity alumina is utilized as a raw material to produce...
Postal van that runs on power
Campuses across the country could run electric postal vans if the department of science and technology (DST) makes IISc's innovative electric postal van a model. Researchers at IISc's Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing are excited by the idea of approaching DST while already having...
Demand for automotive aluminum to double over next 10 years
According to a report from Automotive Discovery, the demand for automotive aluminum will double over the next 10 years due to weight reduction plans by manufacturers such as General Motors, Ford, Nissan, Audi, BMW and Jaguar Land Rover. These auto manufacturers plan to remove hundreds of pounds...
Holden to dress Commodore in aluminium
HOLDEN will become the first Australian car manufacturer to employ mass-produced aluminium body panels – most likely the bonnet and boot – to snip the fuel consumption of its next-generation VF Commodore due in 2014. The “light-weighting” exercise, plus a switch to electric-powered steering and new...
Automakers Look to Aluminum to Reduce Vehicle Weight Safely
Automakers are highlighting plans to reduce weight in North American vehicles efficiently and safely to meet stricter fuel economy standards. Making even greater use of high-strength, low weight materials, like aluminum, to meet the stricter government regulations allows automakers to manufacture...
Aluminum Demand to Grow Fast in Transportation Sector in Brazil
...According to our recent report “Brazil Aluminum Sector Analysis”, aluminum sector has received tremendous boost in terms of both demand and supply in Brazil owing to its growing usage in various sectors. The yellow metal with its strength and flexibility attributes is becoming metal of choice...
Study finds aluminum can reduce vehicle body structure weight safely by up to 40%
...Using aluminum in select automotive components could reduce vehicle body structure weight safely by as much as an additional 40% compared to today’s vehicles, according to a recent study by the University of Aachen (Germany) for the European Aluminium Association (EAA)...
Aluminum Tests Its Mettle Against Steel in Drive for Lighter Cars
...Tougher fuel-efficiency standards, made even more urgent by the recent run-up in gasoline prices, are intensifying the fight between steel and aluminum companies to build the next generation of lightweight cars...
Alcoa CEO: The US Auto Industry has Totally Recovered
...Alcoa (NYSE:AA) CEO Klaus Kleinfeld spoke with FOX Business Network (NYSE:NWSA) about increasing demand for aluminum from the auto industry and ETFs. Here’s the video. It’s a bit of a commercial for aluminum, Your Cheat Sheet to his comments are below:...
BMW looks to replace copper wire with aluminum in its EVs
...BMW's novel aluminum connector tightens as the metal heats up and creep sets in. It could be used to implement an aluminum wiring system in EV to cut costs and weight...
