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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Siemens and BAIC join forces to produce high efficient electric powertrain systems for NEVs
Siemens AG, a global player in the field of electric drivetrains and Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Co., Ltd. (BAIC), one of the major Chinese carmakers, will join efforts to bring further green automotive drive-technologies to the China market. The two companies signed a joint venture at the...
Auto demand will provide biggest wave since beverage cans
The aluminum industry expects the automotive sector will generate the biggest wave of new demand since manufacturers started using the lightweight metal to make beverage cans. For us, it’s equivalent to the invention of the (aluminum) can which was introduced to many markets about 50 years ago,”...
General Motors’ Magnesium alloy VSC machine completes first trial run
General Motors and the GM China Advanced Technical Center in Shanghai announced today the first trial run of the facility’s new Vertical Squeeze Casting machine, the first of its kind in the world designed for developing next-generation magnesium castings. GM says the VSC machine will make it...
Automotive sector takes positive steps towards sustainibility
Given its heavy reliance on raw material and legislative duties that place emphasis on the reuse and recycling of end-of-life vehicles, Europe's automotive industry is perfectly positioned to accelerate the agenda around closed-loop thinking. Renault's Choisy-le-Roi factory has been pumping out...
Automotive technology roadmap to guide EEV development
HIGH technological capability is predominant to realise the nation’s aspiration to develop the country as the hub for energy-efficient vehicle (EEV) manufacturing. Malaysia now possesses the fundamental technologies to support the development of the EEV industry, acquired from the nation’s...
Audi biggest models to be biggest losers
The Audi A8 limousine and Audi Q7 SUV, the German brand’s biggest models, will lose significant weight for their next-generation models. Audi has confirmed the A8 will partly use the hybrid carbonfibre and aluminium construction being used by the new Lamborghini Huracan and its R8 supercar twin due...
Jaguar Land Rover resorts to light weighting & closed loop recycling
There’s much more to the use of aluminium in the latest Jaguar Range Rover than just minimising body-in-white mass. And, of course, it shouldn’t be forgotten that Jaguar Land Rover pioneered the use of aluminium as far back as 1948 with the original Defender built from aluminium recycled from war...
Carbon-Aluminium hybrids to be a part of next generation Audis
Radical new carbon-fibre as well as aluminium’s hybrid pieces will soon be a part of the upcoming full generation of Audis. Dr Ulrich Hackenberg, Audi’s engineering boss, admitted that the new technology almost ready to debut in public in the Lamborghini Huracan at Geneva Motor Show next week, is...
Rio Tinto Alcan teams up with NRC to expand use of aluminium in vehicles
Rio Tinto Alcan Inc, Canadian aluminium producer has signed a 5-year partnership with National Research Council of Canada (NRC) to expand aluminium use in light vehicles & trains. “We see that the demand in the automotive market will be growing within the next few years, so we want to find new ways...
Alcoa founding member of the first Lightweight Metals Manufacturing Institute in the United States
Alcoa, a global leader in lightweight metals engineering and manufacturing, is a founding member of the country’s first manufacturing institute focused solely on light metals: the National Lightweight and Modern Metals Innovation Institute in Detroit, Michigan. The institute was formally unveiled...
Steel Industry concerned about automakers move towards the aluminum industry
For nearly a century, Ford’s River Rouge factory and its neighboring steel mill have worked in close harmony to produce some of America’s most popular vehicles, from the Model A to the F-150 pickup truck. But ever since Ford announced last month that it would make the body of its new F-150 mostly...
Alcoa Reaches Power Agreement to Improve Competitiveness of Québec Smelters
Alcoa and the Government of Québec have reached an agreement to improve the competitiveness of Alcoa’s three smelters in Québec, securing approximately 3,000 jobs. Under the agreement, Hydro-Québec will renew Alcoa’s power supply contracts for the Becancour and Deschambault facilities until 2030...
Goldman Sachs Makes Bullish Comments on Aluminum
Goldman Sachs maintained a Buy rating on Alcoa and a CL-Buy on Constellium N.V. Analyst Sal Tharani believes aluminum beverage can sheet could be the driver for the next leg of profit. "Downstream aluminum market has been benefiting from long term secular growth trends in various end markets. In...
Shiloh Industries plans $7.8 million investment in Indiana
Auto supplier Shiloh Industries Inc. of Valley City said its Shiloh Die Cast Midwest subsidiary plans to spend nearly $8 million to expand two Indiana plants to support new increased demand from automakers for advanced lightweighting technologies. The company will invest $7.8 million to renovate...
Alcoa, Phinergy partner to develop electric vehicle batteries
On 5th Feb, Alcoa Inc. has entered into a joint venture with Phinergy to manufacture electric vehicle batteries that run on aluminum and air. Alcoa made this announcement public during the Advanced Automotive Battery Conference in Atlanta. According to Alcoa, both the companies will work together...
Next-gen Volkswagen Phaeton promises to be bigger with an all-aluminum body
According to a latest report, the next-gen Volkswagen Phaeton will be bigger and will feature an all-aluminum body. Since Phaeton has been in the market since 2002, the model needs a replacement. Considering the fact it did not get significant facelifts in the year 2007 as well as 2010, Volkswagen...
Constellium to invest up to €200 million to add Body-in-White production capacity in Europe to meet growing automotive demand
Constellium N.V. announced today that the company plans to invest up to €200 million over the next three years to further grow its European Body-in-White (BiW) business. Constellium offers to the automotive industry a portfolio of aluminium flat rolled products, targeted to meet our customers’...
GM applies patented technologies to cars, trucks
A patent for an industry-first aluminum welding process used on the 2014 Corvette Stingray is one example of how General Motors is driving more of its inventions into making and equipping cars and trucks on the road. Another industry first - the use of a lightweight shape memory alloy wire instead...
