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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Qimarox introduced a completely new pallet lift under the name 'Prorunner mk9'. The Prorunner mk9 is a compact and robust lift that can effortlessly transport pallets up to 1500 kilograms up or down. Thanks to its modular design, the lift is durable and maintenance friendly and can be easily...
Auto engineering gets a helping hand from pickling tape for local pre-treatment of aluminum
A new self-adhesive tape that simplifies the process of pickling aluminum surfaces, has been found to be safer than existing treatment methods involving pickling pastes, sprays or baths, as it eliminates the rinsing stage and obviates the need for complicated wastewater disposal. Aluminum is a...
New iPhone 6 Concept Shows Coloured Aluminium Body
Consumers waiting for a brand new iPhone design can forget about this year’s iPhone 5S model which will only feature software and feature updates. Next year’s device however is rumoured to be the iPhone 6 and it tipped to offer a bigger display and all new design. Being months away from a release...
Rockwell Automation to build PLC based pot control system for DUBAL’s smelter
Dubai Aluminium, which owns and operates one of the world's largest aluminium smelters, has engaged Rockwell Automation and its Global Solutions team to provide a commercial pot-control system for its proprietary DX+ Technology, currently being installed in the Phase II expansion at Emirates...
Brady wins contract with Rusal
Rusal has contracted Brady Corporation, the largest European-headquartered provider of trading and risk management software to the global commodity and energy markets, to manage its hedging book and risk management requirements for its aluminium sales. Rusal's requirement was to source a solution...
Alba Power achieves key milestone
Alba announces the successful completion of the Pot Lines 1 and 2 Rectiformer Replacement project- considered to be one of the first brown field projects of this magnitude anywhere in the world- that was completed with over 1 million work hours without a single Lost Time Injury (LTI). Alba...
Reading introduces lighter weight aluminium Classic Service Van
Reading Truck Body, LLC announces the next-generation Classic Service Van, manufactured in Reading, PA. Reading Truck Body collaborated with its distributors and key fleet accounts to meet the need for a light weight, corrosion resistant aluminum service body. The CSV57 and CSV75 are over 50...
Homegrown idea for smelter saves $160,000
The workers are putting all efforts to generate gains at the cash-strapped Tiwai Pt aluminium smelter which is reeling under huge financial losses. The latest to the efforts is the homegrown automated thermocouple to check the temperature of the molten aluminium in the furnace that saved the...
Quintiq software enhances Constellium’s inter-plant supply chain planning
Constellium has enjoyed great success using Quintiq’s platform to optimize its melt/cast and hot rolling operations for over a decade, and now intend to use it to improve key performance indicators in delivery performance and inventory reduction between plants in Valais and Issoire. The extended...
Norsk Hydro offers new edge in precision cutting of body sheet
The new facility was inaugurated by Hydro together with the local operator, Alu-Laser-Service (ALS), and its supplier Schuler. Adding a capacity of up to 20,000 metric tons per year, the new facility boosts the Hydro site at Dormagen into a most modern cut-to-size center for automotive strip and...
Outotec to install EUR5.1 million processing line at Rusal plant
German company Outotec is in the process of constructing a EUR5.1 million state-of-the-art electrolyte processing line at UC Rusal’s BEMO smelter in Tayozhny in the Krasnoyarsk region of Russia. The equipment automates the process in which the electrolyte is crushed to the required fraction of any...
Alcoa and RUSNANO to produce drill pipe for oil and gas market
Alcoa and OJSC RUSNANO will produce technologically advanced oil and gas aluminum drill pipe finished with a life-extending antiwear coating under a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the companies. With the help of the Alcoa Technical Center, the parties intend to pursue the potential...
P&A International showcases innovation at METEF 2014
P&A International readies to showcase its metal fabrication service alongside the best-in-class solutions and customised technology in the aluminium and innovative metals industry at METEF 2014. P&A International is a leading manufacturer and metal fabricator based in China. Metef-Foundeq is an...
Aluminium makers fight plastic planes with new alloys
Metal is staging a comeback, at least in the aerospace world, where aluminium has been challenged by newfangled carbon-composites in the industry's perpetual war on weight. As plane makers showed off their latest carbon-plastic jetliners at the Paris Airshow this week, metal firms lobbied hard for...
Alcoa completes capacity upgrades for 3rd gen aluminium/lithium alloys
Alcoa has announced completion of the second-phase expansion of aluminium/lithium alloy capacity at its Kitts Green facility, in the UK, to better serve the growing demand for the company’s third-generation aluminium/lithium alloys. The company on Tuesday said it expected aluminium/lithium revenues...
KEMET announces new Screw Terminal Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitors
KEMET Corporation, a leading manufacturer of tantalum, ceramic, aluminum, film, paper and electrolytic capacitors, announced the release of the new ALS60/61 Screw Terminal Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitors. “The ALS60/61 550Volt aluminum electrolytic capacitors have been designed using the latest...
Constellium inaugurates new ‘Airware’ aluminum casthouse
Aluminum specialist Constellium’s new foundry in Issoire, France, is up and running–a key step in a strategy aimed at regaining some of the ground lost to composite materials in aircraft construction. The casting house focuses on a new family of alloys, dubbed Airware, which are lighter than the...
Bauxite plant now features solar shingles
Sun City Energy recently installed one of the first integrated solar shingle roofing systems in the region on the new Saint-Gobain manufacturing facility at Bauxite in Saline County, according to Sun City President and CEO Pam Speraw. Saint-Gobain is the parent company of CertainTeed, which...
