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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JLR to unveil Jaguar XE in London on Monday
Jaguar Land Rover is set to launch its much-anticipated Jaguar XE on Monday, a compact car that will help the Tata Motors’ premium division take on the likes of the Audi A4, BMW 3 Series and Mercedez Benz C Class. Jaguar Land Rover has gradually been releasing details of the car — due to be...
Atlas Copco bets on new car assembly technologies
Atlas Copco’s interest in new assembly technologies has been spurred by a trend among car makers to use more aluminium to reduce the weight of their vehicles. Swedish engineer Atlas Copco is investing in new techniques for assembling cars, believing powerful adhesives and new rivets could see a...
Mini Superleggara Vision with aluminium inspired design set to launch in UK
The Italian coach builder, Touring is designing the new Mini Superleggara Vision with handcrafted aluminium bodywork. This car has been designed to create the look of a classic two-seater roadster but integrating it with all the modern technologies. This stunner will debut at the Salob Privé...
Chinese producers are cautious about using aluminium alloys for wires and cables
Attracted by the lower costs, many Chinese companies are carrying out extensive Research and Development (R&D) to try and implement aluminium alloy instead of copper in wires and cables. The SMM’s latest survey however shows that most of the cable producers and taking the ‘wait and watch’ stance...
Alba organises tour of datacentre for Technology and Business Society members
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba), as part of its commitment to share its knowledge and expertise with the society, organised a tour of its recently inaugurated datacentre for members of the Technology and Business Society (TBS) on Thursday, August 27, 2014. The visitors from TBS - comprising key IT...
AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group N.V. engineering unit honored with supplier excellence award from General Motors
AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group N.V. announces that AMG Engineering's ALD Thermal Treatment ("ALD") North America unit has been awarded the 2014 GM Supplier Quality Excellence Award. The Supplier Quality Excellence Award, given to a small percentage of GM's suppliers, recognizes those suppliers...
Jiangsu Asia-Pacific Light Alloy Technology Co. enjoys a 28.98% hike in profits
In the first six months of the year, the Jiangsu Asia-Pacific Light Alloy Technology Co. enjoyed a year-on-year rise in profits by 28.98% amounting to 93.92 million Yuan according to their semi annual financial report. The rise in profits is accounted to an increasing demand in the automobile...
Sapa program to improve flux-coated aluminium heat exchangers
Sapa’s new Silflux Academy aims to improve the company’s progressive flux-coated products in order to continue providing customers with the best choice on the market. The initial three-day session, arranged at Sapa’s precision tubing plant in Denmark, brought together internal experts from China,...
The aluminium loaded Jaguar awaits September 8 release
The aluminum-bodied Jaguar XE Compact Sports Sedan is all set for its London release on September 8 and the company has just released the technical details of the new launch. The aluminium-intensive architecture is the central focus in the design which has been developed around the same riveted and...
Madera investors invent can crusher to facilitate recycling
Two inventors from Madera, California have come up with a can crusher machine that will make disposing your aluminium and other metal beverage cans even easier. It has been seen that though people want to be involved in recycling, going back and forth the recycling center becomes tedious for most....
Electric Boat Powered by Aluminum-air Battery demonstrated in Switzerland
Alcoa, clean technology company Phinergy and HEIG-VD University, today debuted a zero-emissions electric demo boat powered by an aluminum-air battery at Lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland. Alcoa and Phinergy announced earlier this year that the companies are collaborating on new materials, processes and...
Aluminum Association to present at SCRS' OEM Collision Repair Technology Summit
The Society of Collision Repair Specialists (SCRS) has announced that Doug Richman, Technical Committee chairman of the Aluminum Transportation Group (ATG), will offer insight into the role aluminum will play in collision repair businesses now and in the future at the OEM Collision Repair...
RUSAL lauches pilot plant to produce scandium from “red mud”
A leading player in the field of aluminium production, UC RUSAL has launched a pilot project at there aluminium smelter (UAZ) to extract primary scandium concentrate from red mud. Nearly 2.5 tonnes of primary scandium oxide concentrate can be produced in the new unit. In the course of 2014, a total...
Hydro opens test pilot for new anode technology
President and CEO Svein Richard Brandtzæg had the pleasure of opening the pilot line in Årdal on Wednesday. “Innovation and technological expertise has always been a backbone of Hydro, and this project shows that the innovative spirit in Hydro is as strong today as it was more than 100 years ago...
MobileMuster recycles old phones
Australians discard 2000 tonnes of mobile phones every year. The average weight of a mobile phone is about 250g – that means four of them weigh a kilogram. There is a saturated market in Australia – virtually every phone is a replacement, which means for virtually every new phone bought, an old one...
Bridge Aluminium gets smart with energy use
An aluminium foundry is turning down the heat – fractionally – on its energy use to earn as much as £25,000 a year. Caparo Bridge Aluminium is installing smart software to adjust the aluminium holding pots to help balance the National Grid’s supply and demand. It will be paid for reducing energy...
Lightweight Jaguar EX to average 75 mpg and emit less than 100 g/km of CO2
Jaguar is proving the fuel-saving benefits of reducing the weight of its cars, with new figures showing that its forthcoming XE compact executive saloon should average more than 75 mpg and emit less than 100 g/km of CO2. Using recycled aluminium, Jaguar has invented a new alloy from which it is...
Economical preheating furnace at Rio smelter improves safety
VHE has completed the fabrication and installation of a preheating furnace for the Rio Tinto Alcan smelter at Straumsvík in Iceland. Most smelters add cold aluminium metal to the charge of molten aluminium in the casthouse furnaces. This metal may be in the form of sows, pure offcuts, or other...
