Carbonation curing could extend the field life of red mud-based backfill, new study suggests
Chinese researchers show that a few extra hours of CO2 curing can roughly double the wet-dry service life of red mud–CFB ash–MgO backfill, while keeping leaching of hazardous elements low even after weeks of exposure to alkaline red mud liquor. Red mud remains one of the aluminium industry’s...
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...
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Kaeser rolls-out new M59 portable compressor; replaces polyethylene structural elements with aluminium
Kaeser Compressors freshly adds to its 5m3 range of portable air compressors, the Mobile M59, offers a range of pressures from 6 an 14 bar. The unit’s range is enabled by its flexible pV control system, which allows it to operate a breaker at a maximum pressure of 7 bar or perform sandblasting work...
Launched! AlCircle’s New Report on “Global Aluminium Industry – Key Trends to 2030”
As the aluminium industry is evolving rapidly across the world with fast-paced developments taking place in its entire value chain, and more so now due to the COVID-19 outbreak, it would be completely worthwhile to take a look at some of the potential trends and developments in the global aluminium...
FYI Resources completes stage two HPA production trial at its pilot plant facility in Welshpool
FYI Resources Limited said that it completed stage two production trial of high purity alumina from its pilot plant facility in Welshpool, Western Australia, following several positive feedback and multiple requests from various potential offtake groups for additional HPA product, which will...
Klaveness Digital delivers technology solution to ALBA for methodical arrangement of shipments
Klaveness Digital, the Norwegian technology company that assist shipping and logistics into the future to empower industrial companies to make better-informed decisions, delivered a solution that improvised Alba to arrange their shipments more methodically, evading collisions during berth and will...
Launched! AlCircle’s fifth quarterly e-Magazine “Covid-19 Impact: Importance & Emergence of Industry 4.0”
Balancing between “lives and livelihoods” is what we are learning during the crises of the COVID-19 pandemic as it has brought an unprecedented shock to many industries and the global economy as a whole. Needless to say, the aluminium industry is no different, with adverse impacts on profitability...
TRIMET Aluminium SE on track to Aluminum Electrolysis 4.0
TRIMET Aluminium SE to engage in the “Aluminium Electrolysis 4.0” project. In collaboration with the University of Wuppertal, the materials expert is developing innovative concepts for more efficient production of aluminium in fused-salt electrolysis and for transforming aluminium production to the...
PyroGenesis Canada reports double revenue in Q2 2020, thanks to aluminium Drosrite contract
On Wednesday, July 29, PyroGenesis Canada Inc. reported that its revenue doubled in just three months of the second quarter of 2020 ended June 30, as its contract with waste management company Drosrite International LLC paid off. From C$913,769 in Q2 2019, PyroGenesis’ revenue increased to C$2.1...
Aluminium alloy dial Nubia watch with flexible display, eSIM support commences
Nubia Watch has launched as the latest product offering from the company. With headquarters in China, Nubia now has operations around the world including North America, South America, Europe, Russia, Southeast Asia and India. Nubia is committed to providing unique and innovative technology,...
Rusal updates its Krasnoyarsk Aluminium Smelter to EcoSoderberg technology, the best aluminium production process
Rusal has announced today, on July 24, that it has completed the project of converting its Krasnoyarsk Aluminium Smelter to the EcoSoderberg technology. The recently completed retrofitting project, which required an expenditure of US$ 74 million, involved modifying a total of 1954 reduction cells...
Clean TeQ teams up with Relativity Space, Inc. to develop scandium-aluminium alloys for 3D printing of Rockets
Clean TeQ Holdings Limited has teamed up with Relativity Space, Inc. to develop scandium-aluminium alloys for 3D printing of launchers for commercial orbital launch services. Clean TeQ will supply scandium oxide to Relativity from its Sunrise Project in NSW, Australia. Clean TeQ’s Chief Executive...
Apple’s 16-inch MacBook Pro: Carbon-Free Aluminium journey begins at Apple
Apple has announced on 21 st July’20, that 16-inch MacBook Pro is planned to be the first-ever Apple device to be made from carbon-free aluminium. As Apple focuses on its environmental impact and reducing the company’s carbon footprint, the MacBook Pro will take the reins as part of a phenomenal...
SLM Solutions and Honeywell jointly developing 3D printed aluminium alloy parameter sets for aerospace components
Germany-based metal additive manufacturing leader SLM Solutions, in collaboration with Honeywell, is developing 3D printed aluminium parts. Working with aluminium alloy F357, they are jointly producing parameter sets, which will deliver considerably improved material properties compared to parts...
Romanian Aluminium producer Alro-Slatina starts operating new Danieli homogenizing furnaces
Alro Slatina, one of the biggest aluminium companies in Romania and Europe is operating new Danieli homogenizing furnaces for the production of quality aluminium flat products at its site. The Romanian plant uses Danieli Olivotto Ferrè's technology to homogenize slabs of aluminium alloys, treating...
Technology turning a piece of Aluminium into water purification device: An Indian University alumnus innovation
An Indian University alumnus innovation potentially offers a solution to the problem of lack of potable water in the world, which states several lives globally every year. A former Allahabad University student Subhash Chandra Singh is part of a team of researchers from University of Rochester, New...
One Plus upcoming smartphone series ‘Nord’ likely to feature aluminium chassis with a glass rear
One Plus Technology Co. Ltd. has reportedly confirmed on Instagram that its upcoming smartphone series Nord, which is expected to virtually launch on July 21, will come with Googles Messages and Phone apps installed instead of its own SMS and dialer. The series is expected to feature an aluminium...
MAHLE jointly with PORSCHE and TRUMPF makes first-ever Aluminium pistons using 3D techniques
MAHLE, working together with sports car manufacturer Porsche and mechanical engineering company Trumpf, has manufactured high-performance aluminium pistons using 3D printing techniques for the first time. The pistons were successfully tested on the engine test bench for Porsche’s 911 GT2 RS sports...
Italpresse Gauss: Supplies its first Chinese make HPDC machine to Huicheng Foundry
Italpresse Gauss, a Norican technology, has supplied its first Chinese make die casting machine to Huicheng Foundry Ltd, an aluminium foundry based in Jinan City, Shandong province, China. The TF1850 two-platen, high-pressure die casting machine was produced at Norican Group’s facility in...
Land Rover adds new engines to its latest Range Rover models suitable to modular aluminium engine architecture
Land Rover has reportedly added new engines for its Range Rover and Range Rover Sports models, based around Jaguar Land Rover’s modular aluminium engine architecture. According to the report, a new family of 3.0-litre straight-six Ingenium diesel engines and a range of desirable special editions...
