New Roeslein AI camera brings real-time spoilage tracking to canmaking
Roeslein & Associates has introduced the R.U.D.I. AI Vision Camera, a new tool for aluminium beverage and food canmakers designed to track can counts and identify production losses in real time. The camera expands Roeslein’s R.U.D.I. AI platform, which has previously focused on data management and...
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...
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STEINERT starts operation of LIBS system for sorting aluminium scrap
STEINER, one of the world’s leading companies in magnetic separation and sensor sorting, has started operations of the first industrial Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) system for separating aluminium scrap alloys, which will be introduced at the Aluminium trade fair in Düsseldorf, 9-11...
Aluqa designing and building lightweight, premium aluminium boats
Aluqa, a Dutch shipyard, is reportedly designing and building lightweight, premium aluminium boats for a highly exclusive segment. Their design comes from Dutch design and they implement the latest high-tech. With a rock-solid experience in the nautical industry for about a decade, the team of...
Best-known designer Michael Anastassiades designs Beosound Edge speaker with aluminium frame
Minimalist designer Michael Anastassiades has recently designed Bang & Olufsen's circular Beosound Edge, which is both speaker and volume knob in one. Designed for the first time by the best known designer for minimal lightings design and unveiled last week at Berlin electronics fair IFA, the...
China's focus on hybrid auto technology drives Toyota's plan to triple China car output by 2030
China’s once-booming car market is slowing down, in part because of escalating trade tensions with the U.S. Auto sales registered a growth of just 3 per cent in 2017, the slowest rate in recent years and a similar growth is forecasted for the current year, according to China Association of...
STAS completes acquisition of technologies from o.d.t. Engineering
STAS has announced through a press release that it has purchased technologies from o.d.t. Engineering PTY. LTD finalized in April 2018. O.d.t. Engineering is a family owned Australian company specialized in the design and supply of casting and material handling equipment and production consumables...
ZENS launches all-aluminium wireless chargers ahead of AirPower
ZENS has just launched a trio of new wireless chargers at IFA with aluminium bodies and at least one that is quite similar to Apple's forthcoming AirPower. The three chargers consist of a dual charger, a single charger, and a second dual charger with an Apple Watch charging puck. Of the trio, the...
Ametek Surface Vision exhibits at SIS.EUROPE 2018 – Surface Inspection Summit
AMETEK Surface Vision, a world leader in automated online surface inspection solutions for the metals industry, will exhibit at SIS.EUROPE 2018 – Surface Inspection Summit, September 18-19, at the TEMA Pyramid, Aachen, Germany, The summit combines presentations from experts from the steel and...
Nalco seeks collaboration with Russia for investment and technology at Angul Aluminium Park
The state-owned Navartna Company under Ministry of Mines National Aluminium Company Ltd. (Nalco) has reportedly pitched for Angul Aluminium Park as a potential area for collaboration with Russia for technology and investment, on August 29. This news came after a discussion in the seventh session of...
Trimet to introduce improved recycling technology at its Gelsenkirchen and Harzgerode plants
The Germany-based aluminium alloy producing and casting company Trimet Aluminium SE is reportedly focusing in aluminium recycling and about to launch a broad range of products and services at the Aluminium Trade Fair this year. It has invested in the modernisation of recycling plants in...
South32 uses new robot technology for safe inspection at Worsley alumina operation
The Australia-based metals and mining company South32 is reportedly using a new robot, the BIKE platform, to execute safety checks at its Worsley alumina operation, the world’s largest alumina project comprised of a bauxite mine near the town of Boddington and an Alumina refinery near Worsley. The...
Achenbach to exhibit at the ALUMINIUM 2018 show as specialist for aluminium rolling and foil slitting technology
The family company Achenbach Buschhütten will present itself at the ALUMINIUM 2018 show as specialist for rolling and foil slitting technology for the production of aluminum flat rolled products at the highest quality level. The strategic approach is to offer ‘everything from one single source’:...
Mecfor unveils prototype automated guided vehicle (AGV) for aluminium smelters
Mecfor unveiled one of its most innovative projects to date, the first automated guided vehicle for aluminium smelters on August 16 in Quebec. The AGV designed and manufactured in North America, will serve the global primary aluminium industry. Based in Saguenay, Quebec, Mecfor specializes in...
Sri Lankan company Alumex Plc eyeing to export aluminium extrusion
Alumex Plc, a fully integrated manufacturer of aluminium profiles in Sri Lanka, is reportedly eyeing exports and planning to compete strongly in a domestic market with import tax protection so that the customers become free from paying higher prices for finished goods. With the opening of a two...
Tomra Sorting Recycling to showcase its sorting technologies at Aluminium 2018 in Düsseldorf, Germany
Norway-based Tomra Sorting Recycling has announced it will showcase its sensor-based sorting technologies at Aluminium 2018, the world trade fair and conference in Düsseldorf, Germany, Oct. 9-11. Tomra’s exhibition stand will spotlight the company’s X-tractT machine and laser-induced breakdown...
Australian Bauxite Limited says it has global licence rights for refining technology
Australian Bauxite Limited told the ASX wholly owned subsidiary ALCORE Limited would have the world rights for refining with its ALCORE technology. It said the technology aimed to refine raw bauxite to produce aluminium fluoride and other valuable co-products. "... in the longer term, these global...
Ampal, Inc. receives grant to fund R&D work on aluminium alloy powders for new applications
U.S. Metal Powders’production facility Ampal, Inc. in Palmerton, Pennsylvania, USA, has received a $10,000 investment from Ben Franklin Technology Partners of North-Eastern Pennsylvania. The investment is part of a series of investments amounting to about US$535,000 made in the region by BFTP/NEP...
In conversation with Dr. Hans O Bohner, an aluminium industry legend since 1950
Born in Salzburg (Austria) in 1923, Dr Hans O Bohner is a name to reckon with in the global aluminium industry. A chemical engineer and a Ph. D. in Chemistry, his career spans from 1948 to 2014. Starting with Aluminiumwerk, Rorschach, Switzerland, his work with the aluminium sector took him to...
Lockheed Martin and Arconic collaborate on 3D printing and advanced aerospace materials
As part of an initiative to develop next-generation advanced materials and manufacturing processes, Lockheed Martin and Arconic, a global technology, engineering and advanced manufacturing leader, today announced a two-year Joint Development Agreement (JDA). Together, the companies will develop...
