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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Sanmenxia upgrades its aluminum industry
Sanmenxia is upgrading its aluminum industry, one of its seven planned industry cluster chains. It plans to build the industry into a pillar industry in the city. According to the city's plan of industry cluster chains, revenue from the aluminum industry will reach 69 billion yuan ($11.26 billion)...
Honda to invest $215 million in Ohio operations
Honda Motor Co said on Wednesday it will invest about $215 million in its Ohio manufacturing operations to add new powertrain technology and two training centers. The Japanese automaker said about $180 million will be spent at its Anna, Ohio, engine plant to expand capabilities in aluminum die...
AluK offers innovative solutions for aluminium systems
AluK (GB) Ltd, the leading aluminium window, door and curtain walling systems manufacturer, has announced that its CPD, BIM: Aluminium Façade Systems – modelling, design, construction, standards and collaboration, has been RIBA accredited. AluK is the first aluminium systems manufacturer to offer a...
Hero Cycles Ltd launches aluminium cycle plant
Hero Cycles Ltd launches Hero Cycles Aluminium Cycle Plant in Ghaziabad. The company will share plans to upgrade its entire cycle manufacturing to aluminium, ushering in a new era of techinically advanced cycles in India. Hero Cycles Limited, the largest manufacture of cycles in the world, has...
Buckeye Shapeform builds custom extruded aluminum enclosure for innovative LED spotlight
Like many great inventions and discoveries, FUEL Lighting, a manufacturer of innovative wireless lighting systems, emerged into the market after the unique needs of its preceding company, Boston Uplights, went unanswered. Boston Uplights owner Paul Therrien needed a new kind of spot light that was...
Aluminum fifth wheel now available from all Class 8 OEMs
SAF-Holland has announced its FWAL aluminum fifth wheel is now available for factory installation with all Class 8 OEMs. The fifth wheel is approved for on-highway applications and is touted as the world’s lightest weight and only aluminum standard-duty fifth wheel. The FWAL reduces weight by up to...
Samsung S5 likely to feature an all aluminum case: sources
Samsung's Galaxy S5 will not hit stores until 2014 but the hype over it has been building. With competitors like Sony and Motorola offering and introducing impressive Android-based tablets, people wonder if Samsung can retain its position as the number one handset manufacturer today. According to...
Research facility at Brunel University to deliver new manufacturing methods for UK car makers
Car makers in Britain will be the first to benefit from revolutionary new metal casting techniques developed at Brunel University in London, thanks to a Government-supported programme to take laboratory discoveries and upscale them for industry. The £14 million Advanced Metal Casting Centre (AMCC)...
Omni Circuit Boards produces working aluminum trace circuit board for quantum supercomputer
Omni Circuit Boards, a British Columbia-based circuit board manufacturer, has announced the successful development of an aluminum monometal wire-bonded circuit board. The prototype, designed and manufactured for use in a D-Wave Systems quantum supercomputer, allows for superconductivity and...
MRT Castings invests in a new automated die casting cell
MRT Castings has commissioned a new advanced die casting cell further enhancing the already high quality of its die casting facilities. MRT Castings has commissioned a new advanced die casting cell - further enhancing the already high quality of its die casting facilities. MRT is renowned for its...
Chinese aluminum producer Luoyang Wanji grants FAC for two SMS Siemag aluminum rolling mills
Following the smooth and efficient commissioning of two new CVC plus six-high cold rolling mills, Chinese aluminum producer Luoyang Wanji Processing Company issued the Final Acceptance Certificate (FAC) for both mills to SMS Siemag, Germany. On cold rolling mill No. 1, the first strip had already...
China's first international standard of the aluminum profile industry was released
On July 18th, China's first international standard of the aluminum profile industry ---ISO 28340 «Aluminum and Aluminum Alloy Combined Anodic Coating»was released by translating into Spanish, French, Russian, and many other countries' language, and was adopted by more than 120 member states of the...
Casemachine reveals the new silicone-aluminum hybrid case for Apple iPhone 5
The All New i5 Slimline (V2) Case for Apple iPhone 5 aims to minimize the hassle of putting on a Silicone-Aluminum hybrid by offering screw-less, slip on assembly. This takes only seconds for iPhone users to put the case on and/or take it off. The case has reinforced corners made of silicone...
TDK Epcos offers snap-in aluminium electrolytic capacitors for compact designs
TDK Epcos offers two new series of aluminium electrolytic capacitors in extremely compact snap-in designs. The dimensions of the new B43640 and B43644 series are 22mm x 25mm to 35mm x 55mm (diameter x height), depending on the type. Thus, both series are significantly more compact than previous...
Fata Aluminum launches two Sand Regeneration Plants
Fata Aluminum recently supplied Montupet with two thermal Sand Regeneration plants. Production was launched with a first plant at the beginning of 2012, at the Laigneville foundry in France, to regenerate the facility's entire sand requirements. The plant, which regenerates sand from the Cold Box...
New Sasol O&S Tri-ethyl aluminium production plant proves concept
Sasol Olefins&Surfactants (O&S) announced today that it has reached an important milestone in the expansion of its capabilities with the production of its new ALCAT®TEAL highly purified tri-ethyl aluminium product. Production at the new TEAL plant in Brunsbüttel, Germany, which went on-line in June...
Microsoft Surface smartwatch coming in translucent aluminum
Microsoft is developing a Surface smartwatch in a material three times harder than glass Tech giant Microsoft has been in the news a lot lately - for all the right reasons. Now the software major is back in the spotlight and this time it's for its much rumoured smartwatch. Microsoft's prototype...
Innovation from Sapa Building System pushes boundaries of sustainability
The most cost-efficient aluminium Passivhaus window on the market is now available from Sapa Building System, one of Europe’s largest suppliers of environmentally sustainable and energy-efficient aluminium building system solutions. Avantis 95 is a state-of-the-art window system which has been...
