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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Electric Boat Powered by Aluminum-air Battery demonstrated in Switzerland
Alcoa, clean technology company Phinergy and HEIG-VD University, today debuted a zero-emissions electric demo boat powered by an aluminum-air battery at Lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland. Alcoa and Phinergy announced earlier this year that the companies are collaborating on new materials, processes and...
Lightweight Jaguar EX to average 75 mpg and emit less than 100 g/km of CO2
Jaguar is proving the fuel-saving benefits of reducing the weight of its cars, with new figures showing that its forthcoming XE compact executive saloon should average more than 75 mpg and emit less than 100 g/km of CO2. Using recycled aluminium, Jaguar has invented a new alloy from which it is...
Lightweighting goals top automotive design and manufacturing survey
DuPont has published the results of a new survey conducted with WardsAuto that asks the automotive design and engineering community what technologies they are working on to reduce emissions and improve fuel economy. Topping the list was lightweighting, engine efficiency programs, vehicle...
The automotive industry embraces the “lightweight” trend
A new survey among the designers and engineers involved with the automotive industry sees “lightweighting” as the newest trend in automotive production, as both US and Europe are facing tougher new fuel economy goals in the years to come. Ford’s upcoming sales start of the aluminum-made F-150 truck...
The auto industry falls for aluminium: Automotive World report
A detailed report on the increasing use of aluminium in the automotive industry has been published by Automotive World. Featuring interviews with industry experts and executives from leading OEMs including Ford, Jaguar Land Rover and Audi, Automotive World Briefing: The auto industry falls for...
Popular broadcaster to oversee aluminium tech debate
Renowned scientist and historian Adam Hart-Davis has been announced as chair of a special discussion in Birmingham this autumn on aluminium’s growing role in the automotive sector. The polymath broadcaster, who presented hit documentaries like What the Victorians Did For Us and Local Heroes, will...
Showa Denko ups high-purity aluminum foils capacity in China
Showa Denko (SDK) has decided to expand its capacity to produce high-purity aluminum foils for aluminum electrolytic capacitors in China. It will increase productive capacity of Showa Denko Aluminum (Nangtong) (SDAN) from 400 tons a month at present to 600 tons a month. SDK plans to start operation...
Aluminum's per-vehicle use expected to rise 56% from 2012 to 2025
The advent of the 2015 Ford F-150 pickup has monopolized the aluminum vs. steel debate, and understandably so. The F-150, with its aluminum cab and cargo box, could be a rolling advertisement for Alcoa, Ford's chief aluminum supplier. But the fuss over the F-150 obscures a deeper trend. Step by...
Alcoa’s breakthrough automotive bonding technology receives prestigious R&D 100 award
Lightweight metals technology, engineering and manufacturing leader Alcoa (NYSE:AA) today announced that R&D Magazine has named Alcoa 951 — an enabler for adhesive bonding of aluminum-intensive vehicles (AIVs) — an R&D 100 Award winner. The 52nd Annual R&D Awards, known as the "Oscars of...
Steel and aluminium compete for auto space
The geographical shift in steelmaking capacity to emerging economies since the 70s has now picked up greater force in the automobile sector. In the global steel production of 1.607 billion tonnes (bt) in 2013, the share of Asia (1.08 bt) was 67.3 per cent, thanks largely to China, with output of...
Aluminium sheet market on cusp of big growth
ALUMINIUM giants Alcoa and Novelis spent decades wooing Detroit’s vehicle makers to toss out their heavy steel vehicle bodies and overhaul their factories in order to mass produce vehicles made out of lighter aluminium. This year, with Ford Motor ’s launch of its new aluminium-intensive F-150...
High strength cellular aluminium foam for the automotive industry
Aluminum foam is used for applications that require high level of energy and sound absorption characteristics. UiTM researchers have developed an innovative process to make high strength cellular aluminium foam with help from some salt. Aluminium foam exhibits unique properties when compared to its...
Israeli-Canadian aluminium-air battery goes 1000 miles
A new “aluminum-air” battery developed by Israel-based Phinergy and Alcoa Canada can more than triple the distance electric cars can travel. The battery, shown to the public in Montreal this week, is made of panels that are mostly made of aluminum. By using the new battery on an "ordinary car"...
Ford builds lightweight family car
Luxury manufacturers such as BMW and Jaguar make extensive use of materials such as carbon fibre and aluminium in the structure of some new cars such as the i8 supercar and upcoming XE sedan. More affordable models, such as the Holden Commodore, have introduced some alumiunium panels to save weight...
Alcoa & Phinergy to develop aluminum-air EV battery
Alcoa Ltd. and Israeli firm Phinergy are working together to commercialize an aluminum-air battery they claim can extend the range of an electric vehicle by about 1,600 kilometres. According to Alcoa and the electric vehicle battery maker, they are collaborating on new materials, processes and...
U.S. seeks to fund Alcoa's bet on automotive aluminum
The U.S. Department of Energy has proposed lending money to Alcoa Inc. to expand aluminum production at a Tennessee factory, setting the stage for the first loan to a supplier under a dormant $25 billion fund. The loan would help the largest U.S. aluminum producer expand a 100-year-old factory in...
CIAC to highlight opportunities for aluminium in transportation
If the demand for aluminium is surging, that is because important markets are in full expansion. The entire spectrum of transportation is the most promising and leads all sectors. To respond to the needs for energy efficiency and to meet the strictest environmental norms of the day, the newest...
Aluminum demand underpins by improving economy, emissions rules: BofAML
Demand for aluminum is underpinned by an improving economy and tighter emissions regulations for automobiles, said Bank of America Merrill Lynch. The fundamental backdrop outside of China has especially improved, and the bank says the world excluding China may post a 590,000-metric-ton supply...
