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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Samsung Galaxy S5 body might be made of aluminium
Analysts believed at the time of Galaxy S4's launch that Samsung’s next flagship smartphone will have radically different design language, that it will not follow the design paradigm it has for quite some time now. A number of manufacturers have moved to metal chassis for their devices, HTC One is...
AMAG achieves 4% increase in productivity
Quintiq, a global leader in supply chain planning and optimization (SCP&O), announced that Austria Metall AG (AMAG) has successfully implemented Quintiq Scheduler in its cold mill facility in Ranshofen, Austria. Contracted for implementation across the facility over three stages, Quintiq Scheduler...
Alcoa rolls out medium-duty aluminum wheels
Alcoa has introduced the M-Series line of wheels, designed for medium-duty trucks in Classes 3-6. Each wheel in the series features the same benefits Alcoa forged aluminum wheels provide to heavy duty (Class 7-8) customers customized to fit medium duty applications, Alcoa said. M-Series wheels...
Samsung Galaxy S5 to Sport Aluminium Body as a Result to Design 3.0 Direction, Confirms Source
There’s no doubt that the South Korea-based company will launch the Samsung Galaxy S5 next year, the follow-up of the already popular Samsung Galaxy S4, a smartphone that was sold in 40 million copies in less than a month after its market debut. Even though the Samsung Galaxy S devices are the best...
Aluminum Bahrain plans to increase production on an annual basis
Aluminum Bahrain Chief Operations Officer said that the company is looking to boost production by 1,000 on an annual basis after its important technology upgrade in pot line 5, Daily News reported. He explains that this upgrade is a significant milestone for the company and was achieved by (Alba)...
Alba Pot Line 5 achieves another milestone
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba)'s production process achieved a significant milestone with the announcement that Pot Line 5 has been upgraded to AP37 technology following an increase in the line current to 370 kA. The upgrade will increase production by approximately 1,000 metric tons on an annual...
Canada launches program to promote aluminium intensive vehicles in future
As automakers and their suppliers from around the world strive to develop fuel-saving technologies, the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) has announced a new program to help the Canadian transportation industry reduce the weight of cars, trucks, trailers, buses, and trains by developing...
China-based P&A International breakthrough for mass production of aluminium intensive vehicles
China-based P&A International has announced its breakthrough in pre-treatment bonding technology, which could lead to cars being made with more aluminium parts. The enabler for adhesive bonding of automotive structures has been licensed to a leading supplier of surface treatments to the automotive...
Malaysia’s Press Metal Bhd set to up the ante with Samalaju smelter
Press Metal Bhd (Press Metal), a public-listed aluminium company with an extensive global presence, has been regarded as being significantly undervalued but is now set to be on a strong upward trajectory as its greenfield aluminium smelting plant in Samalaju is set to swing into full production...
Edmonton pioneers the use of aluminum electric cable in oil pipelines
Edmonton became the North American pioneer in the commercial use of aluminum electric cable in an oil-filled pipeline. The eight-km cable was laid from the power plant to the Woodcroft substation under construction at 118th Avenue and 142nd Street. C.Z. Monaghan, Superintendent of the City of...
Rusal issues warning on aluminum imports
Rusal has warned that state support will be needed to boost domestic aluminum output, as foreign producers are on course to increase their share of Russia’s market from 39 to 47 percent by 2017. Sergei Belsky, Rusal’s Sales Director for Russia and the CIS, said in a conference report that Russian...
Alcoa develops new low cost technology to reduce smelter emissions
The Alcoa Technical Center (ATC) has developed technology that uses 50% less water and 30% less energy and will reduce emissions at a fraction of the cost of current technology in the field. ATC will complete commissioning and on-site testing of its In-Duct Scrubber in August 2014 and plans to...
Fives Group in talks with Emal/Kizad over state-of-the-art anode technology
Having supplied equipment to all of the big Gulf smelters except Emirates Aluminium (EMAL) Fives Group has approached the primary aluminium producer – and the head of the Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (Kizad) – with a view to supplying state-of-the-art equipment as part of a multi-Euro...
Alcoa completes water recycling project
Aloca Inc. and The Saudi Arabian Mining Co. (Ma'aden) announced the completion of its engineered wetlands wastewater management system in Saudi Arabia. The first-of-its-kind system will reduce water demand by nearly 2 million U.S. gallons per day and is expected to save more than $7 million...
Emal and Kizad in French link-up talks
The French industrial engineer Fives Group is in talks with Emal, the UAE-based aluminium smelter, and Kizad, the Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi, about a multimillion euro partnership that could create as many as 100 high-tech jobs for nationals. Frédéric Sanchez, the chief executive of Fives...
AMMG produces 99.99% high purity alumina
Australia Minerals and Mining Group Limited is pleased to announce that it has successfully produced 99.99% (4N) HPA (high purity alumina) using its own innovative aluminous clay (kaolin) to HPA processing technology. AMMG filed three patent applications for the aforementioned processing technology...
Seco/Warwick supplies seven soaking pit furnaces to Hindalco
Furnace specialist Seco/Warwick Allied recently installed seven soaking pit furnaces for Hindalco in Hirakud, Eastern India. The furnaces feature side-mounted fans (for improved maintenance access) and a combination of fan and heater arrangements to produce separate control zones along the vertical...
Novelis, ThyssenKrupp sign agreement to make aluminium car parts
Aluminium sheet producer Novelis and steel auto products producer ThyssenKrupp Tailored Blanks Wednesday signed a cooperation agreement for the development of tailored aluminum blanks for the car industry. "Individual aluminum sheets of different grades, thicknesses and coatings can be joined to...
