Smaller grain sizes, smarter separation: At ALUMINIUM in Düsseldorf, STEINERT presents technological advances in LIBS and X-ray sorting
From October 6 to 8, 2026, STEINERT will provide a comprehensive insight into the future of aluminium sorting. Closing the aluminium loop requires both high throughput and melt-ready quality. As demand for high-grade recycled aluminium continues to grow, STEINERT is advancing its sorting systems on...
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...
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Innovation Areas at ALUMINIUM 2014: trade fair shows new products for automotive engineering and construction
Automotive engineering and construction are among the growth and innovation drivers of the aluminium industry. That’s why the ALUMINIUM trade fair from 7 to 9 October will dedicate two special areas to the latest developments in both segments: entitled“ Automotive Innovations” and “Building...
SMS Siemag supplies cold-rolling mill to Turkey aluminium producer
Steel and aluminium plant processing technology, equipment and services specialist SMS Siemag supplied a complete cold rolling mill to Turkey-based aluminium company Asas-Alüminyum for its new works at Adapazan-Akyazi, about 150 km to the east of Istanbul. Asas-Alüminyum’s new works, estimated at...
Dickinson Group of Companies shows increase in business by adopting new techniques
Local furnace and industrial services company Dickinson Group of Companies, has shown an increase of 60% in business over the course of last 20 years through constant expansion of its specialized industrial services in the aluminium industry. The MD of DRS Mozambique, the aluminium smelter services...
Bottlenecks curbing the widespread use of aluminium alloy wires and cables
The State Grid Corporation of China has released a list recently that includes aluminium alloy wire and cables in its new technologies promotion plan. SMM interviewed some insiders in the industry on September 24th at the 6th All China International Wire & Cable Industry Trade Fair which revealed...
HYBRAZ coating 'healthier' for aluminium tubes
In its latest issue, Automotive Industries reports on how the application of Sapa’s HYBRAZ coating benefits the overall performance of aluminium tubes in heat exchange applications. The magazine article features Sapa’s Dagmar Steiner, who works for the company’s Precision Tubing Technology Center –...
Alcoa to roll out lightest heavy-duty truck wheel in Europe, offering increased fuel efficiency, Payload
Alcoa, the inventor and global leader of forged aluminum wheels, said that it will roll out its lightest heavy-duty truck wheel in Europe to help fleets increase payload and fuel efficiency. Announced at the 65th International Motor Show (IAA) Commercial Vehicles tradeshow in Hannover, Germany,...
Constellium introduces its new PAVIM lightweight extrusion technology and streamlined CNC-machining capabilities at InnoTrans 2014
Constellium N.V. announced today at InnoTrans 2014 its new streamlined CNC-machining capability for producing customized parts ready for assembly. The Company will feature an interactive cross-section model composed of its PAVIM structural extrusions based on the Warsaw Metro’s body shell, and will...
Aluminium displays may replace LEDs in the future
The new age organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays have replaced the cathode-ray tube, which relied on inorganic chemicals, almost completely now. While the new technology provides sharper images, they are less stable and have a shorter life. A sustainable, inorganic display system would thus...
RUSAL to produce nanostructured aluminium alloys
UC RUSAL, a leading global aluminium producer, has begun work on a new production process for making nanostructured aluminium alloys with improved mechanical strength for the electric power industry. The project is being implemented by the Engineering and Technology Centre of UC RUSAL on the...
SCAP to join Sapa at InnoTrans 2014
Sapa and Sapa Chalco Aluminium Products (SCAP) will join forces in Berlin at InnoTrans, the largest railway event in the world. InnoTrans 2014 will be held from September 23-26. It will be the first time that the SCAP joint venture shows its products at InnoTrans, an exhibition which takes place...
Hong Kong’s University of Science and Technology is inventing a ‘fibre-reinforced aluminium’
The Hong Kong’s University of Science and Technology is conducting a research to come up with a new aluminium-based material that is being called the ‘fibre-reinforced aluminium’. The new material is supposedly 30% stronger than aluminium, and lighter and less expensive than steel making it a...
Aluminium forming company receives £300,000 investment
Warwickshire aluminium forming company Impression Technologies has announced a £300,000 to further aid growth. The company specialises in developing processes that maximise the strength and lightweight properties of aluminium in the automotive sector, where it works on weight reduction to impact on...
Bremco Aluminium to upgrade its Messer Airport Highway facility
Bremco Aluminium, founded in Birmingham 1921, recently announced that they would be renovating Messer Airport Highway facility and they have already invested $5 million for the project. This company that manufactures secondary aluminium alloys is based in Birmingham. Two 220,000-pound furnaces is...
Mechanical behaviour of twinned aluminium discovered using nanoindentation technique
A team of researchers from Texas A&M University have revealed the work-hardening and plasticity properties of twinned aluminium with incoherent twin boundaries using an in situ nanoindentation technique. Twin boundaries in nanotwinned metals help to maintain thermal stability, electrical...
Caltech materials scientists develop non-brittle ceramics with the help of Alumina
Caltech materials scientist Julia Greer and her colleagues are on the path to developing a material that is thermally insulating but also extremely lightweight, or one that is simultaneously strong, lightweight, and nonbreakable—properties that are generally thought to be mutually exclusive. In a...
AMMG to focus on HPA production following technical review
Australia Minerals and Mining Group Limited (AMMG) is pleased to announce it has a clear strategy and focus on becoming a high purity alumina (HPA) producer. In his first major undertaking since his appointment as Managing Director last month, Mr. Iggy Tan, a highly experienced mining executive and...
Constellium joins research consortium led by MIT to improve design of automotive structural componentsNew simple page
Constellium N.V. announced today that it has joined the Industrial Fracture Consortium established by Professor Tomasz Wierzbicki from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The consortium will engage in research to develop and improve modeling and mathematical simulations software designed...
TOMRA sorting machines increase the processing capacity of Sweeep Suusakoski
Sweeep Suusakoski, a UK Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment firm has asked TOMRA Sorting to provide sensor based sorting equipment for an upgrade at the Kent recycling center and enable better sorting of metallic fractions. TOMRA, the recycling equipment manufacturer, states that they are...
