CFMoto’s 2027 Ibex 800 E combines aluminium components with radar safety technology
CFMoto's 2027 Ibex 800 E combines an aluminium swingarm and forged aluminium pistons with radar-based safety technology, while starting at USD 9,799 in the US. The Ibex also comes with an 8-inch touchscreen, adjustable KYB suspension and several touring features as standard. The Ibex 800 E comes...
Vedanta Aluminium brings 4 AI Control Towers into logistics, safety and plant maintenance
Vedanta Aluminium is using artificial intelligence (AI) and other digital tools across its operations as part of its efforts to improve day-to-day decision-making, logistics, safety and equipment monitoring. At BALCO in Korba, Vedanta Aluminium has introduced four AI-enabled Control Towers to keep...
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Alupro welcomes Scanmetals, a specialist metal recycling company
On Monday, April 11, Alupro, the aluminium packaging and recycling organisation welcomed Scanmetals as its new member. Based in the United Kingdon, with operations in Scandinavia Scanmetals is a metal recycling company specializing in recovering non-ferrous metals from incinerator bottom ash...
Alba picks EtaPRO for its digital transformation drive to enhance power stations performance
The first aluminium smelter in the Middle East region, Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba), recorded 1.561 million tonnes of aluminium production in 2021 has selected EtaPRO LLC to enhance the thermal performance of its power stations. EtaPRO LLC is a company with 3 decades of experience in developing...
Alcoa receives US$7.7 million to carry out carbon reduction technology for alumina refining
Alcoa is an American industrial corporation and is one of the largest producers of bauxite, alumina, and aluminium products, with a goal of reinventing the aluminium sector for a more sustainable future. On Monday, April 11, Alcoa announced that the Australian governments have contributed $7.7...
Tomago Aluminium test runs first AI featured robot ‘Spot’ to replace humans from hazardous tasks in smelter
The Australian primary aluminium producer, Tomago Aluminium has deployed on work a robot dog named ‘Spot’ with more advanced technology. The introduction of Spot in Tomago makes it Australia’s first aluminium smelter to trial the new AI technology, with impromptu demonstrations to showcase its...
IIT Madras walks to the future with polycentric knee, India’s first aluminium alloy-stainless steel prosthetic
Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, India’s premier technology and Research University have introduced the nation’s first-ever native polycentric prosthetic knee intending to simplify the lives of innumerable amputated individuals. Named, ‘Kadam’ (which means legs)...
Scientists from BSU and Skoltech institute discover resistant and improved aluminium for aircraft
Scientists from Belgorod State University (BSU) and Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) have discovered a series of patterns in the atomic structure of aluminium, which might lead to new and more resistant aluminium alloys for aviation. As per Anton Boev and his colleagues...
EGA and Ma’aden will co-operate on developing greener aluminium smelting technology
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), the UAE’s biggest industrial company outside oil and gas, and Ma’aden, a Saudi state-owned mining company, have reportedly agreed to extend their collaboration on greener aluminium smelting technology, in a bid to achieve more sustainable production. The news came...
Housing alternative, MAKU trailers made of aluminium running on Japanese roads
The MAKU trailer is the latest innovation in the field of movable housing systems. Japanese architect Taichi Kuma inaugurates aluminium-frame MAKU trailers which are lightweight and can easily house a remote work office or radio station. The skeleton of a MAKU is aluminium while the walls are...
Revolutionary Al-Mg-Si coating invented by scientists to curb corrosion on steel
Scientists have derived an innovative method of coating steel surfaces with different metals such as aluminium (Al) to enhance corrosion resistance. But its tendency to react with chloride ions in seawater makes use of pure aluminium impossible. Therefore, the addition of other elements, such as...
PNNL scientists develop aluminium-nickel molten salt battery with energy density of 260 W/hr/kg
Scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) of the US Department of Energy have created an aluminium-nickel (Al-Ni) molten salt battery named “freeze-thaw battery” under thermal cycling. It can disable the self-charge mechanism when the battery is turned off. With a potential...
Granco Clark supplies APEL Extrusions, Inc. with a complete Heating, Handling, and UBE Press System
APEL Extrusions, Inc. is expanding its production capacity quickly in the new Phoenix, AZ facility. Apel has officially commissioned Granco Clark and UBE to provide equipment for a second press line in their new facility. This news comes while Apel awaits the installation and commissioning of their...
Envisage Technologies installs Belloti 5-axis CNC machine to boost aluminium OEM production
Envisage Technologies which is a part of the global Envisage Group has decided to install two new Belloti 5-axis CNC machines for its Herald way machining Centre in Coventry in the wake of April. An investment of £1.5 million has already been made for the procurement of the above stated machines...
“The current situation, with its significant dose of uncertainty regarding the future, has pushed many companies in the sector to reconnect with their essence. In the case of Insertec, we are facing this new era of aluminium by dedicating our efforts to developing solutions that reconcile people, technology and the environment”, José Ignacio Sesma, General Manager at Insertec
AlCircle: How do you envision the year 2022 for the global aluminium industry and foundry segment following the economic impact caused by the Covid pandemic? Mr José Ignacio Sesma: In Europe, just as we were recovering from the pandemic, where all industrial sectors have been impacted over the last...
Circular economy, thanks to eternal aluminium - G. Magarotto, T.T. Tomorrow Technology
One of the most important targets for our business in 2022 and for the forthcoming years is to better support the aluminium casthouses that deal with aluminium recycling . Tomorrow Technology has always had a particular focus on this “green” sector, and we believe it is appropriate to invest in new...
Context and challenges of the industry
Aluminum Industry, like many other industries, is facing new challenges. The lack of available manpower has experimented with in many countries. This issue will increase in the next few years. Even more, attractiveness for some tasks is lower for a new generation of workers. Some plants will be...
“Modern smelters fitted with EnPot modulation technology can maximise operating performance and reduce their CO2 emissions profile by flexing their energy use to match electricity generation fluctuations”, Karyna Young, CEO of EnPot
We are glad to have Karyna Young join us at LeaderSpeak 2022, a Chief Executive Officer of EnPot since early 2021, after being involved with the company since its inception in 2016. EnPot is an innovative new technology that fundamentally changes the way smelters use energy to produce aluminium. It...
Alba takes another leap towards net-zero carbon emission, signs contract with MHI Group for CO2 capture application
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group and its engineering company Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Ltd. (MHIENG) have entered into an agreement with Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C (Alba), a major Bahrain-based aluminium producer, to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted from the smelting process...
Meta accomplishes construction of Havhingsten aluminium power subsea cable system, outperforming copper
Meta, the parent company of Facebook on Thursday, March 24, announced the completion of Havhingsten subsea cable system construction, the world’s first aluminium conductor driven cable system. For this Meta collaborated with Aqua Comms, Bulk Fiber Networks and Alcatel Submarine Networks ("ASN")....
