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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Tesla to source 8 Gigapress Machines from IDRA for its move to replace robots with aluminium casting machines: Sources
According to Tesmanian and Reuters report, the new Tesla car factory in Brandenburg, Germany, may source eight Gigapress Machines from IDRA, specialised in diecasting machines, for the production of a single module aluminium diecasting. The single module aluminium diecasting will replace 70...
Nissan celebrates 'World EV Day' producing 500,000th of its 100% electric car Nissan LEAF
The world is celebrating its first-ever 'World EV Day' on September 9, and to commemorate the occasion, Nissan has announced a major milestone of producing its 500,000 th Nissan LEAF, the world’s first mass-market 100 per cent electric car. With half billion LEAF built globally, customers around...
Tesla to replace robots with Aluminium casting machines
Robots are not efficient enough for Tesla’s new car factory in Germany, which plans to replace hundreds of them with giant aluminium casting machines to build simpler chassis parts, a person familiar with the matter brought up this information. The electric carmaker, Tesla, has struggled to...
Indian auto comp industry must upskill employees to ensure smooth transition to electric vehicles: Amitabh Kant
Amitabh Kant, CEO of the policy think tank NITI Aayog, has pointed out that upskilling the existing workforce in the Indian auto component sector would be an ideal way to ensure a smooth transition to electric vehicles. As far as the technical advancements are concerned required for the adoption of...
Shanghai Huafon Aluminium launching IPO on Shanghai Stock Exchange
According to a recent report, Shanghai Huafon Aluminium (601712) will start trading on the Shanghai Stock Exchange – Main Board from Monday, September 7, at a public offering price of RMB 3.69 per share, to raise RMB 921.13 million. Its initial listing shares will account for 25 per cent of the...
Housed in an Aluminium frame Vladimir Putin’s new escort motorcade “Aurus Escort Electric Motorcycle” unveils in Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s motorcade is set for the new escort motorcycle “The Aurus Escort electric motorcycle”, as per the latest reports. The motorcycle, called just 'Escort', will be the first vehicle to go fully-electric under the Aurus name. Other vehicles in the Aurus line-up include...
Okaya teams up with BluSmart Electric Mobility for electric vehicle charging stations
Okaya has teamed up with BluSmart Electric Mobility for electric vehicle charging stations across the country. The partnership aims to provide a well-laid out EV charging stations for their fleet operations. Anshul Gupta, Director, Okaya Power Private, said the collaboration will play a significant...
Jaguar Land Rover forms new alloy using recycled aluminium to cut carbon emissions by up to 26%
According to a recent report, Jaguar Land Rover said that it could reduce carbon emissions by up to 26 per cent through its ongoing REALITY programme, an aluminium recycling programme aimed at reusing the metal recovered from existing JLR vehicles to produce new cars. Engineers working on REALITY...
COVID-19 outbreak leads to 12% decline in Auto Component Industry's turnover in India during FY20
According to a recent report, the automobile component manufacturing companies in India saw a decline of 11.7 per cent to INR 3.49 lakh crore in their total turnover during fiscal 2020, attributing to the COVID-19 impact on the automobile industry. In the financial year 2019, the revenue of the...
Aluminium remains fastest-growing automotive material, emerging as preferred metal for electric vehicles: A survey by DuckerFrontier
DuckerFrontier, a Washington headquartered global research and consulting agency delivering clients with high-quality insights for making valuable decisions, on 12 th August’20 came up with a survey, which confirms that aluminium already is the rapidly growing automotive material and is expected to...
China’s automobile market further recovers from COVID-19 pandemic with sales rising by 16.4% in July 2020
The automobile market in China saw a further recovery in July, marking the fourth consecutive month of growth for the overall vehicle market since the plunge of 42 per cent in the first quarter of 2020. New vehicle sales in July rose by 16.4 per cent from 1.81 million units during the same period...
French-Indonesian electric motorcycle furnished with aluminium alloy “Katalis EV.1000” appeals youth
TheArsenale, a company founded by Frenchman Patrice Meignan that market themselves as ‘the ultimate marketplace for the independent builders and the most innovative studios in the mobility sector and all its forms. They have a significant footprint to the well-heeled Chinese market via an outlet in...
Launched! AlCircle’s New Report on “Global Aluminium Industry – Key Trends to 2030”
As the aluminium industry is evolving rapidly across the world with fast-paced developments taking place in its entire value chain, and more so now due to the COVID-19 outbreak, it would be completely worthwhile to take a look at some of the potential trends and developments in the global aluminium...
Andhra Pradesh eyes to take a lead in the world of electronic vehicles, plans to invest INR 30,000 crore by 2030
Andhra Pradesh is reportedly transforming itself into a major hub for automobile and component manufacturers, with some of the world-class brands, including Isuzu Motors India, Hero MotoCorp, Kia Motors India, Apollo Tyres and Bharat Forge, setting up manufacturing operations in the state. Now, in...
Aluminium's acceptance is coming at the expense of steel: The Green metal could supersede steel as metal of choice for electric vehicles production
A rapid-paced energy transition through an uninterrupted shift to electric vehicles has designed a new, significant demand stream for aluminium and vital opportunities for auto supply chain organisations. Steel being cheaper has been the initial choice; however, aluminium consumption in electric...
MAHLE jointly with PORSCHE and TRUMPF makes first-ever Aluminium pistons using 3D techniques
MAHLE, working together with sports car manufacturer Porsche and mechanical engineering company Trumpf, has manufactured high-performance aluminium pistons using 3D printing techniques for the first time. The pistons were successfully tested on the engine test bench for Porsche’s 911 GT2 RS sports...
Land Rover adds new engines to its latest Range Rover models suitable to modular aluminium engine architecture
Land Rover has reportedly added new engines for its Range Rover and Range Rover Sports models, based around Jaguar Land Rover’s modular aluminium engine architecture. According to the report, a new family of 3.0-litre straight-six Ingenium diesel engines and a range of desirable special editions...
Altech Chemicals Limited executes option for second high-purity alumina (HPA) plant
Altech Chemicals Limited executed an option to purchase agreement for a ~10 hectare industrial site within the Schwarze Pumpe Industrial Park, municipality of Spreetal, Saxony, Germany. The company had received an official invitation from the State Government of Saxony in September 2019 to consider...
