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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MWC 2017 sees the launch of aluminium crafted Nokia 6 & three other android phones
<p>Nokia, a brand used by Finnish company HMD, has released on Sunday its three android smartphones: the Nokia 6, Nokia 5 and Nokia 3 along with the relaunched of Nokia 3310 at MWC 2017 in Barcelona.</p> <p><strong>The Nokia 6</strong> sports a unibody design crafted from a single block of...
New Jaguar XF with aluminium chassis launched in India
<p>Jaguar Land Rover India has launched its second-generation Jaguar XF sedan in the Indian showrooms today at a starting price of INR 47.50 lakh. The new Jaguar XF gets a slew of advanced technology features including InControl Touch Pro with the all-new 25.9 cm (10.2) touchscreen infotainment...
Skoda commences production of its new aluminium engine block
<p>Skoda Auto, a Czech automobile manufacturer, said in a press statement that the company has begun production of its new 1.0 TSI engine at its Mlada Boleslav engine plant. The three cylinder turbo petrol engine belongs to Skoda’s EA 211 family of engines which the company builds in four...
Altech plans fixed price contract for HPA plant construction
<p>Altech Chemicals Limited has announced that it has reached an agreement with its appointed engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor M+W Group on a framework for a fixed price EPC contract for the construction of the Company’s proposed Malaysian high purity alumina (HPA)...
Danieli Fata Hunter installed aluminium rolling plants in Europe
<p>Danieli Fata Hunter, a manufacturer of machinery for the production of aluminium strip and foil, has supplied and installed a cold rolling mill and a tension leveling line at the new Eurometal greenfield plant located in the new Kleszczow Industrial Park in Poland. </p> <p><img...
HTC to launch U Ultra with aluminium chassis in India today
<p>The Taiwanese based smartphone maker HTC is ready to launch its U Ultra smartphone in India today. The launch event is going to take place in New Delhi. The company had already unvailed U Ultra at CES 2017 in January. Now, the device is going to hit the shelves in Indian maeket.</p>...
Disney Scientists constructed aluminium room for charging devices wirelessly
<p>Scientists at Disney’s Research Lab has constructed an aluminium room for charging several electronic devices present in the room without using electrical cords or charging cradles. With the help of this technology, numerous gadgets mobiles, fans, lights, Laptop, tablets are chargeable at...
Vishay Intertechnology introduces aluminium electrolytic capacitors
<p>Vishay Intertechnology, one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of discrete semiconductors, has introduced a new series of 400V and 450V snap-in, four-terminal aluminium electrolytic capacitors.The capacitors provide a high ripple current capability at a temperature of 105C in 15...
JCF Engineering designs new aluminium case for the Raspberry Pi Zero
<p>UK based JCF Engineering has designed a new aluminium case attached with a key ring for the Raspberry Pi Zero phones for damage protection and easy portability. The CNC machined sleek aluminium case is designed with precision with a number of finishes including bare aluminium, black and red. <br...
Emirates Global Aluminium orders seventh Hertwich batch homogenizing unit
<p>Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) has placed an order for the supply of an additional batch homogenizing furnace for the heat treatment of billets with Hertwich Engineering, a company of the SMS group. Including this new unit, which will go into operation at the end of 2017, a total of five batch...
Nokia 3310 to make a comeback! - This time as an aluminium-bodied Android
<p>Nokia, the once undisputed king of the global mobile handset market is planning to bring back its classic model Nokia 3310 in a brand new aluminium-body avatar. An update representing a distinctly turn of the millennium flavour, Nokia 6 will be unveiled at the Mobile World Congress (MWC)...
Aluminium of Greece ties-up with GE to enhance its aluminium smelting process
<p>GE and Aluminium of Greece (AOG), a Mytilineos Group subsidiary, yesterday signed a 10- year contract in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates to create the world’s first-of-their-kind digital smelter solutions to improve AOG’s aluminium smelting process and help the company to drive...
German Researchers to develop Aluminium-Ion battery, replacing Lithium
<p>Researchers at the Technical University of Freiberg in Germany are endeavouring to develop aluminium ion batteries replacing lithium ion technology. German researchers have also been trying to develop a cathode that will work with the aluminium ion battery.<br /><br /><img style="vertical-align:...
HTC launches its aluminium built smartphone in India
<p>Taiwan-based smartphone maker HTC has launched HTC 10 Evo crafted from aluminium in the Indian market. HTC claims the handset is the company’s first metal body smartphone with IP57 certification, meaning dust proof features.<br /><br /><img style="vertical-align: middle; display: block;...
Airobotics launches automated drone to inspect operation at Worsley Alumina
<p>Airobotics, a leading provider of an end-to-end fully automatic solution, has developed an unmanned drone solution, the first of its kind in the global market. The company’s multi-purpose drone will be utilized at an Australian resources operation in a little while.<br /><br /><img...
Audipack to launch innovative products featuring aluminium profiles
<p>Audipack that creates standardized products as well as custom-built products and solutions is set to introduce new products featuring aluminium profiles. A new and updated package of stands comes for all types and sizes of flat screens.</p> <p><img style="vertical-align: middle; display:...
IAI introduces web-based tool to visualise aluminium value chain
<p>The International Aluminium Institute (IAI), the global association of aluminium producers, has introduced a new web-based tool at the 14th International Aluminium Recycling Congress in Manchester, UK, that helps the user to know aluminium value chain from bauxite to aluminium scrap, including...
Asus Zenfone 3s Max with aluminium metal body launched in India
<p>The noted Taiwanese mobile phone manufacturer Asus has launched Zenfone 3s Max (ZC521TL) featuring a suave aluminium metal body in India today. The smartphone which was unveiled earlier in India at an exclusive event with a real-time tear down demo sports bumped up specs from the Zenfone 3...
