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...
Germany aluminium extrusion imports from Italy fall 41.83% in 4 years, with automotive & construction playing a major role - know why
Germany and Italy have long been closely linked in Europe’s aluminium extrusion trade. Italy remains a significant source of extruded aluminium for the German market, but the flow has changed considerably over the past few years. The latest numbers raise an interesting question: is Germany simply...
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Hydro’s investment of NOK150 million at Henderson factory to further boost recycled aluminium production
Hydro's recent investment of NOK 150 million ($15 million) into its Henderson factory in Kentucky highlights the urge of the automobile industry to shift towards a more sustainable and eco-friendly environment. This investment will strengthen Hydro's position as North America's top producer of low...
Lotte Chemical teams up with Lotte Aluminium to build an anode facility in Kentucky
On Wednesday, July 27, Lotte Chemical announced its intention to construct an anode facility in Kentucky by 2025 under the joint venture between the former and Lotte Aluminium. A crucial component of electric vehicle (EV) batteries is anode foil. Lotte Chemical and Lotte Aluminium will each spend...
BMW calls for 'Secondary First' to achieve climate neutrality
The German multinational manufacturer of Luxury vehicles, BMW Group, pursues to cling to its zealous sustainability goals and will restrict its carbon emissions by 40 per cent per vehicle by 2030 crosswise the complete value chain equating to 2019. Thomas Becker, the Head of Sustainability and...
End-user weekly recap: Novelis expands its evercycle™ portfolio to cosmetic packaging; Israel-India aluminium-air battery JV plans trial run on a 50-seater e-bus
The end-user sector in aluminium is where all the products from the other streams meet, and this week, it was buzzing with innovative activities as there were many additions along the path. Novelis wishes to be carbon neutral by 2025, and on July 20 2022, the world leader in sustainable aluminium...
Primary aluminium weekly recap: Rio Tinto inks MoU with Ford Motor for low carbon aluminium supply; Aditya Aluminium initiates to restore water bodies in Odisha’s Rengali Block region
The primary aluminium industry witnessed a lot of significant incidents this week. From the LME aluminium price opening the week with an escalation to the news of Rio Tinto resolving tax disputes with the Australian taxation office, the metal market as a whole had been going through lots of ups and...
Rio Tinto inks MoU with Ford Motor for low carbon aluminium supply
A non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) is being signed between Ford Motor Company and Rio Tinto to jointly develop more sustainable and secure supply chains for batteries and low-carbon materials used in Ford vehicles. As part of the multi-material partnership, Ford, one of the world's...
Triangle's Cycling Equipments joins ASI as its new Industrial User member
On Tuesday, July 19, the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative announced the joining of Triangle's Cycling Equipments as its new Industrial User member. Triangle's aspires to be a model business and a pioneer in the development and production of aluminium bicycle frames at the European level. It is the...
ABx subsidiary Alcore amplifies the construction of three reactors in Central Coast to produce aluminium fluoride
Alcore the brainchild of ABx Group has successfully authorised the construction of three laboratory reactors in its quest to yield a high-value essential material, aluminium fluoride used in aluminium smelting extracted from a smelter residue. These recently commissioned reactors are situated at a...
Skeleton Technologies to materialize Siemens-designed supercapacitor factory in Leipzig, Germany
Skeleton Technologies ensures an investment of 220 million euros (US$239.39 million) to build a new factory designed by Siemens to manufacture supercapacitors at Leipzig, Germany, as was declared by the energy storage technology firm based in Tallinn, Estonia. This new facility is estimated to...
Vedanta willing to collaborate with automobile value chain to reduce imported aluminium intake
On Monday, July 18, Vedanta Aluminium said that it is eager to collaborate with the entire value chain of the automobile sector to minimise the industry’s dependence on imported aluminium. The news came after Vedanta said in a statement, "The company is keen to partner with the automotive...
Hindalco to start pilot production of aluminium plates for aluminium-air batteries, in partnership with Phinergy & IOC
Now, the use of aluminium as energy source in electric vehicles will be possible in India, thanks to the partnership of Hindalco, Phinergy and IOC Phinergy. According to a report on July 18, Aditya Birla’s flagship company Hindalco has signed an MoU with Phinergy, an Israel-based company engaged in...
Israel-India aluminium-air battery JV plans trial run on a 50-seater electric bus ranging 500 km
Commercial vehicles that travel long routes perhaps have initiated electrifying modestly in a much slower manner than envisioned, due to certain challenges such as battery size, charging infrastructure and long charging times. In spite of the slow start, India is striving to lead the way in the...
Cymat Technologies obtains OEM parts manufacturing contract featuring forerunner aluminium foam
Ontario-based Cymat Technologies boasted about bagging an OEM components development deal from an anonymous “global automotive manufacturer”. Cymat is keen on using SmartMetal, their flagship aluminium foam. Tesseract Structural Innovations has been the design consultant for the company and they...
Hydro installing a new 12-inch, more advanced extrusion press at Tønder plant to boost auto components production
Hydro is reportedly investing NOK 300 million (EUR 29 million) in a new 12-inch, state-of-the-art extrusion press at its Tønder plant in Denmark to boost production capacity and capability to make extrusions with large cross-sections for automotive Tier-1 suppliers and automotive OEMs. Hydro’s...
Altech Chemicals appoints IKTS as a strategic partner to enhance the qualification process for Silumina Anodes
Altech Chemicals has successfully enrolled the Dresden-based German research institution, Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems (IKTS), as a strategic guide to accelerating the testing and qualification process for the company’s patent Silumina Anodes™. IKTS independently wishes...
Scientists at PNNL working to improve aluminium’s conductivity
Keerti Kappagantula, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) materials scientist and his team are working to improve aluminium’s conductivity so that it can compete with copper inexpensively. Keerti stated that this study was initiated as a result of his team's realisation that the demand for...
Quooker UK drives sustainability, floats EV fleet manufactured from recycled aluminium
Quooker UK has collaborated with London Electric Vehicle Company (LEVC) to honour its current sustainability initiative and revealed a new electric vehicle fleet for its UK engineers. The VN5 electric vans feature fully recyclable monocoques comprised of recycled aluminium, with interiors and...
PTG to roll out upgraded stir welding FSW machines for the aluminium extrusion sector
Headquartered in Rochdale, UK, Precision Technologies Group (PTG) is yet to launch its series of Powerstir dual weld-head friction stir welding (FSW) machines after the success of their dual-head FSW machines released about two years ago. Designated especially for applications in mass manufacturing...
