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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ELYSIS progresses toward commercial demonstration at an industrial scale, a step closer to carbon-free aluminium smelting
The carbon-free aluminium smelting for widely usable products varying from smartphones to cars and drink, cans are one step closer with ELYSIS effectively producing aluminium without any direct greenhouse emissions at its Industrial Research and Development Center in Saguenay (QC), Canada. The...
MISIS researchers in collaboration with Russian experts develops 400°C resistant aluminium alloy
Researchers at the National University of Science and Technology (NUST MISIS) collaborated with other Russian experts to develop a low-cost aluminium alloy that can resist temperatures up to 150°C higher than its counterparts. The material, according to the experts who developed it, would...
HPA producing firm FYI Resources licensed to trade on US-based OTCQX market
The Australian listed resources company focused on developing an innovative and vertically integrated high quality, high-purity alumina for use in various high growth tech applications, FYI Resources Ltd has been licensed trade on the US-based OTCQX market. On 29 th October 2021, the HPA producing...
University of Leeds advises aluminium industry to invest in green electricity
A research led by the University of Leeds has advised the industry that, in order to achieve the net zero objective, industry must accelerate investment in new technologies that allow materials to be manufactured using renewable power. The report warns that national programmes for replacing fossil...
Tomra observes 15 years of X-Tract technology for sorting of aluminium
Tomra has made a long-term commitment to be a leader in the resource revolution. Through automated sensor-based sorting technologies, the business aims to enhance the aluminium industry's environmental performance. Tomra confirms once again that its famous performance continues to improve the...
GMG assigns BOSCH to establish Graphene Aluminium Ion Battery manufacturing plant
The clean-technology company that has developed and proved its own proprietary production process to manufacture Graphene powder from readily available low-cost feedstock, Graphene Manufacturing Group (GMG) has made public that BOSCH (Robert Bosch Australia) will design and deliver a Graphene...
Rio Tinto, Carbfix collaborates for carbon capture and storage at ISAL smelter area
The global metal giant Rio Tinto partners with Carbfix, the provider of natural and permanent storage solutions by turning CO2 into stone underground in less than two years, to implement a technology for capturing carbon and permanently storing it underground at the ISAL aluminium smelter in...
AlCircle launches its eighth quarterly e-Magazine “Aluminium Industry 4.0: Drivers & Change Makers of 2021”
AlCircle, one of the leading providers of information related to the metal industry, believes in staying at the forefront of the global aluminium value chain sector. By delivering the latest information and data related to the industry, AlCircle likes to stay connected with their readers and keep...
LME partners with Metalshub to develop digital metals spot market aiming ‘Green’ Aluminum
On Monday, October 11, the London Metal Exchange (LME), announced that they are planning to establish a digital base metal spot market which will focus on the trading of ‘green’ aluminum. For this initiative, LME will be partnering with a German digital metals trading platform called Metalshub. The...
Industry 4.0 – Saviour of Aluminium Industry during COVID-19 crisis and beacon of hope for 2021
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 has popularised the use of Industry 4.0 across all manufacturing industries, including aluminium. Until then, it was only a buzzword to many, despite being a dominating topic of discussion in conferences, summits and seminars. Thanks to the Fourth...
Industry 4.0 allowing Indian Aluminium to participate in globalized manufacturing
India is gradually waking up to the potential of its minerals and metals industry. This was one of the few industry sectors that continued to be productive despite the ravages of the pandemic. In fact, India’s mining GDP increased from INR 739.90 billion in the fourth quarter of 2020 to INR 913.03...
BatchPilot furnace weighing system for increasing casthouse productivity and production gets major IT upgrade
A top-selling furnace weighing system from Aluminium Casthouse Technologies (ACT) is embracing the advance of Industry 4.0 with a major IT upgrade. The BatchPilot, an innovative technology used in casthouses worldwide to accurately measure furnace liquid metal weight and determine exactly what is...
Modern anode handling and cleaning system for Industry 4.0 technologies
Manufacturers are under continuous pressure to lower costs and improve quality. To assure optimum technical and financial performance of the Carbon Plants and anode block manufacturing, Aluminium manufacturers are moving forward in the adoption and integration of Industry 4.0 technologies as part...
Fives’ Digital Solutions for Equipment Monitoring, Process Optimisation and Emission Control
Since 2007 and the introduction of Amelios, Fives’ Aluminium division has developed a comprehensive range of digital solutions to enhance the productivity of smelters and achieve greener aluminium production. Being a worldwide leading solution provider for Green Anode Plant, Anode Baking Furnace...
The importance and emergence of Industry 4.0 during the COVID-19 pandemic
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, AMETEK Land and AMETEK Surface Vision had identified the need for connectivity and moved into Industry 4.0. Industry as a whole depends on getting accurate data from systems and providing this to management within companies, enabling them to make data-driven...
True to its reputation as a technology and innovation-driven company, Sohar Aluminium is harnessing the transformational potential of Industry 4.0 in its quest to position itself as the ‘Smelter of the Future’.
Sohar Aluminium: Poised for the Future Overcoming the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic since early 2020, Sohar Aluminium (SA) recorded an excellent annual production of primary aluminium totaling 396,929 tonnes in 2020. Timely business continuity measures initiated by the company...
Improving the heat treatment of aluminum sheet coils on the course of the industry 4.0 concept
1. Introduction: Industry 4.0 is a general concept of technological and organizational transformation of enterprises, which includes, among others digitization and automation of technological processes. One of the key branches for the development of the world economy is the production of aluminum,...
Vetroplas Packaging offers new aluminium bottles made with in-line silk screen printing technology
Vetroplas Packaging Limited, a supplier of high-quality cosmetics packaging to the UK, is offering new aluminium bottles to personal care sectors, developed with fully-integrated in-line silk screen printing technology. The new technology, which can be used alongside the existing offset printing,...
