Aluminium eggshells take on space debris with nearly 65% impact reduction
Researchers at Dalian University of Technology in China have tested a spacecraft protection structure made from water-filled aluminium eggshells, with the design reducing the velocity of an impact projectile by nearly 65 per cent. The research, published in the Journal of Applied Physics , looked...
Can Oklahoma reshape US aluminium supply? EGA’s Ziad Fares explains the project
As the US seeks to rebuild its domestic aluminium production capacity, Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) and Century Aluminum are advancing plans for a new primary aluminium smelter in Inola, Oklahoma, targeting more than 750,000 tonnes of annual production. In this exclusive conversation with AL...
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Savannah business association ideates redesigning aluminum cups into sustainable souvenirs
Savannah’s pilot aluminum cup program has come up with yet another idea of reutilizing the cups. The idea is to redesign aluminum cups into sustainable souvenirs. Nick Pulambo, Savannah City Council and the 4th District Alderman for the city of Savannah, said Downtown Business Association picked up...
Custom Line’s all-aluminium Navetta 50 construction may begin by 2022-end
Aluminium as a metal is lightweight, corrosion resistant and sturdy, which makes it a good fit for yachts, ships and other similar structures. Custom Line brand’s flagship yacht, the new Navetta 50, is designed entirely out of aluminium. It is a part of the displacement range of the brand and has a...
Italian government may invest in Titagarh Wagons' subsidiary Firema
The government of Italy is seeking to acquire a stake in an Indian company, Titagarh Wagons' wholly-owned arm Firema. Titagarh is in the business of manufacturing coaches for the Indian railway. According to our report, the Italian government investment promotion agency Invitalia might acquire a...
Volkswagen encourages positive participation in the Aluminium Closed Loop system
Volkswagen Group's Slovakia site is one of the first units to enrol in the Aluminium Closed Loop project, which includes recycling aluminium stamping offcuts from press shops that come back to the aluminium roll suppliers. These aluminium offcuts are then subjected to reform, after which the actual...
Alba’s Chairman expresses gratitude to the shop floor workers on his visit to Casthouse 4
On Sunday, July 24, 2022, Shaikh Daij bin Salman bin Daij Al Khalifa, the Chairman of the Board of Directors (BOD) of Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba), paid a field visit to Alba's Casthouse 4 (CH4). He was joined by Chief Executive Officer Ali Al Baqali, Director Casthouse A. Rasool Ahmed as well...
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...
Governor of Kentucky condemns Unity Aluminum for abandoning Ashland aluminium mill project
Five years after lawmakers authorised investing $15 million to assist Unity Aluminum (formerly known as Braidy Industries) build an aluminium mill, the company appears to be abandoning a contentious project in Ashland to take up another project with Steel Dynamics Inc. in the southeast. According...
Saperatec GmbH develops a recycling plant in Germany to sort packaging materials for reuse
Saperatec is, at this moment, engrossed in constructing its first recycling plant in Germany, specialising in composite packaging in addition to segregating thin layer composite materials from aluminium barriers during its exceptional recycling process. Saperatec is working with composite flexible...
PyroGenesis working on adding aluminium alloy powder to its product range for advancing Additive Manufacturing
PyroGenesis Canada, Inc. has informed that it is focusing on scaling up its metal powder production by adding aluminium for the use in Additive Manufacturing. PyroGenesis has said that it intends to add aluminium alloy powder to its product range, as requested by many global automakers issuing...
Steel Dynamics plans to invest $2.2 billion in building recycled aluminium facilities
On July 19, Steel Dynamics Inc. headquartered in Fort Wayne, Indiana announced an investment of US$2.2 billion to construct a flat rolled mill for recycled aluminium alongside two satellite recycled aluminium slab units to aid in production. The firm has confirmed that the mill harnesses 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...
Azerbaijan Industrial Corporation signs deal with Achenbach Buschhütten for rolled aluminium production in Ganja
Azeraluminium LLC, a subsidiary of Azerbaijan Industrial Corporation OJSC, and German company Achenbach Buschhütten signed an agreement to create a joint venture for the manufacture of aluminium goods in Ganja. The manufacturing of rolling aluminium products is envisaged as a part of the agreement,...
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...
Two coal blocks will be functionalized by Vedanta to ensure the long-term supply security of its power plants
This financial year, Vedanta is on an expedition to activate two coal blocks in Odisha and is also plotting to quicken the operational instinct of another coal mine located in the eastern region. In recent times and primarily last year, thermal power plants and the non-regulated sectors have...
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...
Recycled aluminium weekly recap: Nestlé launches 'Starbucks at Home' coffee capsules made from 80% recycled aluminium; AMAG's new Al4®ever product line ensures low carbon emissions
The recycling sector has seen a sudden boom in the past few years with major companies turning towards sustainability. Mitchell Avenue’s Weston Aluminium suffered a grave trauma on July 12 as molten aluminium was spilt at the Kuri Kuri smelter, later to be controlled by state firefighters. It is a...
Primary weekly recap: Rio Tinto to invest US$188 million to scale up low-carbon aluminium billet production; Vedanta Aluminium inks MoU with TÜV SÜD to achieve water-positive sustainability goals;
LME aluminium's official settlement price opened the week with a growth of US$17.5 per tonne to close at US$2,417 per tonne, which declined by US$59 per tonne the next day to halt at US$2,358 per tonne. On Wednesday, the LME aluminium benchmark price slumped by US$15 per tonne to stop at US$2,343...
