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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German-Russian Joint Venture FITNIK is Leveraging AM for Aerospace and Aviation Industries
The interest of aerospace industries in AM has been continually growing and the adoption rate itself describes a curve looking like a taking-off plane. As announced, the promising German-Russian joint venture “FITNIK” has started operations as of January 2018. Partners are the FIT Additive...
ElvalHalcor orders hot rolling mill from SMS Group for its aluminium sheet plant
SMS Group GmbH has won a contract from ElvalHalcor, to supply a new four-stand tandem aluminium hot finishing mill for its Oinofyta plant, near Athens. ElvalHalcor is one of Europe’s leading producers of wide aluminium sheet that is currently investing EUR 150 million to upgrade equipment,...
RUSAL & SMS to collaborate on aluminium wire rod producing equipment using former’s technology
Leading aluminium producer UC RUSAL has announced the signing of a cooperation agreement with plants, machinery and services provider, SMS group, Germany. The agreement entails coming together of both the companies to develop innovative continuous casting equipment for aluminium wire rod production...
Purdue Research develops process to boost strength and ductility of aluminium alloys
Purdue Research announced last month that researchers have developed technology that can change aluminium’s microstructure to boost ductility and offer strength equivalent to stainless steel. The technology is meant to do away with complications that arise in case of aluminium alloys during...
SMS group supplies aluminium hot rolling lines to Tianjin Zhongwang
SMS group, a plant supplier to the metallurgical industry for steel, aluminium, copper and metals, has supplied two high-capacity aluminium hot rolling lines to Chinese aluminium producer Tianjin Zhongwang Aluminium Co. Ltd. The first aluminium hot coil rolled in the expanded finishing mill on...
SGB MY plans to boost revenue by manufacturing aluminium oval transformers in Malaysia
In order to boost revenue by the end of 2018, SGB MY Sdn Bhd, a unit of Germany-based SGB SMIT Group is planning to venture into manufacturing aluminium oval transformers in Malaysia. Managing director of the company Franz Hierz said the company expected the aluminium transformer to grow popular in...
Xiaomi launches Mi TV with aluminium alloy frame in India
Chinese electronics and software company Xiaomi has entered Indian television market with a premium brand. The Mi TV- built on an aluminium alloy frame is priced same as its high-end yet affordable counterpart- 4K LED televisions in China. Source: VentureBeat What sets Mi TV 4 apart from other...
Trina Solar announces new efficiency record of 25.04% for a large-area
Trina Solar announced that its State Key Laboratory (SKL) of PV Science and Technology (PVST) has set a new record of 25.04% total-area efficiency for a large-area (243.18 cm2) n-type mono-crystalline silicon (c-Si) Interdigitated Back Contact (IBC) solar cell, with open-circuit voltage up to 715.6...
RUSAL to complete a feasibility study for an industrial-scale scandium plant in 2018
UC RUSAL, a leading global aluminium producer, is pleased to announce that it intends to complete the development of a feasibility study in 2018 for the construction of a scandium oxide production unit at one of its Russian operations. Such a development adds to the Company completing another...
KEMPER GmbH revenue rose by almost 14 per cent in 2017
The demand for products and services of KEMPER GmbH continues to rise. Last year, the manufacturer of extraction and filter systems once again achieved a high sales growth. While KEMPER achieved solid growth of five percent in the local German market, total revenues rose by almost 14 percent....
Impol Group produces first aluminium coil after plant modernization
Impol Group Slovenia has rolled the first aluminium strip from its modernized cold rolling mill. “The range of coil dimensions has been extended, including larger coil diameters and increased width, with maximum coil mass doubled. Higher strip tensions now allow thicker strip to be rolled,”...
First Sealed Cathode Achieved for Alba’s Line 6 Smelter
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba), the Bahrain-based international aluminium smelter, announced that its Line 6 Smelter, of the iconic Expansion Project, achieved a significant milestone - the First Cathode Sealing Operation - on Wednesday January 31, 2018. The first cathode is an integral part of...
Scientists build flexible solar panel with aluminium components for next-gen IoT devices
To overcome the structural rigidity and weight issues in traditional solar panels that restrict their use in flexible electronics, researchers at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia have built rigid silicon segments joined by aluminium contacts. The lightweight,...
NSTU develops world’s first all-aluminium aircraft engine
The Novosibirsk State Technical University (NSTU) in Russia has created an aluminium engine for Yak-52 airplane. This all-aluminium engine is 50 kg lighter than the previous steel engine. According to a TASS report, the engine will be installed on Yak-52 two-seat planes. Image Source:...
Purdue scientist develop aluminium alloy with strength rivaling stainless steel
Scientists at Purdue University say they have developed a new aluminium alloy with strength comparable to stainless steel. According to researchers at the university’s School of Materials Engineering, altering the metal’s crystal lattice by introducing distortions known as “stacking faults,” or...
Hydro starts aluminium production at Karmøy technology pilot
Hydro starts aluminium production at its technology pilot in Karmøy that aims at verifying the credibility of the world's most climate-and energy efficient aluminium technology in an industrial scale. Hilde Merete Aasheim, Executive Vice President for Hydro's Primary Metal business area confirms...
Axion to develop sorting technology for recovery of high-grade recycled aluminium
Resource recovery firm Axion announced that it is undertaking further research into increasing recycled aluminium content in new vehicles as part of REALITY project led by Jaguar Land Rover. The company will develop techniques for sorting and separating specialist alloys from aluminium derived from...
RUSAL to invest around USD 250 million to implement Eco-Soderberg technology
UC RUSAL announces that it will invest around USD 250 million to implement Eco-Soderberg technology at the Company's smelters between 2018 and 2022, a press release from the company confirms. The transition involves a number of engineering activities, like the construction two-stage gas-cleaning...
