Bosch SDS, Dassault Systèmes collaborate to advance AI-led manufacturing in India
Bosch Software and Digital Solutions (Bosch SDS) and Dassault Systèmes today announced a collaboration in India to help manufacturing enterprises accelerate digital transformation across product engineering, manufacturing operations and industrial value chains. The collaboration brings together...
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...
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Beverage can made from 100% recycled aluminium under development, says Novelis CEO
Novelis revealed they are working on a beverage can made of 100% recycled aluminium in their Q1 results conference call and described it as the “ultimate sustainable package.” Evercan is currently under development at their innovation centre which opened in June in Georgia. While discussing the Q1...
Draft permits for Aloca's Massena modernization up for review
Public comment is now being taken on permits requested for the proposed modernization of the Aluminum Company of America plants in Massena. The proposed permits are available for public review. Comments will be taken until Sept. 21. Alcoa owns and operates two primary aluminum reduction facilities...
Showa Denko Group to expand its Packaging Material Production Capacity
Showa Denko Packaging Co., Ltd., has decided to increase its production capacity for aluminum laminated films used for packaging lithium ion batteries (LIBs). Specifically, Showa Denko Packaging will expand the production facility at its Hikone Plant in Shiga Prefecture, doubling annual production...
Rusal launches aluminium wire rod output for the cable industry
Rusal's production of rare-earth and transition metals aluminium alloys to create wire rod for the cable industry has completed the R&D and facilities set-up stage and entered production, the Russian aluminium producer said Monday. A multifunctional casting, rolling and pressing facility is...
Philippe Meyer named chief technology officer by Aleris
Aluminum products producer and recycler Aleris in Beachwood has named Philippe Meyer vice president and chief technology officer. Aleris said Mr. Meyer will build an internal technology organization, including centers of excellence for the company's aerospace and automotive products. "Philippe...
New DIY Can Crusher From Gizmoplans for can recycling
Gizmoplans, a leader in do-it-yourself construction plans, has released a new set of blueprints to construct a DIY Can Crusher. Now people who cash in on aluminum cans can make the work of crushing those cans a lot easier by assembling their own electric can crusher. These new can crusher plans...
Enval Limited develops process for recycling aluminium foil from laminated films
THE first company to occupy the enterprise zone at Alconbury Weald looks set to be at the cutting edge of recycling technology. Enval Limited, which was spun off from Cambridge University’s department of chemical engineering six years ago and is currently based in Luton, wants to expand the...
Rio Tinto Alcan offers easier licensing deals for rivals
Rio Tinto Alcan has offered more flexible licensing terms for rivals to end an antitrust investigation and avert a possible fine, EU regulators said on Friday as they sought feedback from competitors on the proposals. The European Commission said it had been investigating the issue following a 2008...
Aluminium parts formed from smaller particles
A research team from the University of Exeter, UK, has developed a method for making three-dimensional aluminium composite parts by mixing metal powders to form tiny particles. To carry out this new technique, the researchers use a laser to melt a mixture of powders, composed of aluminium and a...
China to export high-speed train parts to Europe
A Chinese train maker said Wednesday it will sell components to German engineering giant Siemens, in what will be the first time Chinese high-speed train parts have been exported to Europe. The deal, reportedly worth more than 11 million euros ($13.6 million), will see parts including some...
Orbite Aluminae produces the first North American Heavy Rare Earths from aluminous clay
Orbite Aluminae Inc. announces that it has successfully extracted the first commercial samples of heavy rare earth oxides, gallium and scandium from its aluminous clay deposit in Grande-Vallee, Quebec. With its patented and patent pending, commercially-proven technology, the Quebec clean tech...
Apple abandoned curved glass and aluminium iPhone prototypes on cost and comfort issues
Apple’s earliest iPhone prototypes were unearthed during the trial between Apple and Samsung last week, and further investigation into older court filings from the case have revealed some of the reasons behind Apple’s decisions for the design of its smartphone. Networkworld’s Yoni Heisler reports...
Alcoa to supply aluminum drill pipes for shale gas wells
Alcoa Inc said on Thursday it won a contract to supply drill pipe made of an aluminum alloy to Pennsylvania General Energy, which operates natural gas wells in the Marcellus Shale formation of Pennsylvania. The use of aluminum instead of steel, which is more common for drill pipe, will allow PGE to...
VHE Installed Stub Straightening Machine at Romanian Aluminium Smelter
VHE has successfully commissioned a stub straightening machine supplied to the ALRO aluminium smelter in Romania. The machine has been designed for the 2x2 130mm stub diameter techonology in use at ALRO and completed the Performance Acceptance Test on 31 July 2012. Inward bending of anode stubs,...
KM Packaging excels in lidding film technology
Leading flexible packaging specialist, KM Packaging Services Ltd, is celebrating 15 years since the development of its revolutionary lidding film technology for smooth wall aluminium trays, which is now one of the most popular packaging solutions used by the food manufacturing industry. Fuelled by...
Outotec signs deal with Orbite Aluminae to provide technology for its high purity alumina plant
Outotec and Orbite Aluminae have agreed to terms for a project related to the Canadian company's new plant to process high purity alumina. The scope of delivery for Outotec involves both basic and detail engineering as well as providing fluidized bed technology with special Outotec equipment for...
Orbite Aluminae offers technology to treat Red Mud
Canadian clean tech company Orbite Aluminae Inc. is pleased to announce that it has developed a patented technology that can treat red mud, the most significant waste product of the traditional Bayer process for aluminum production. The Company thus offers the only ecologically sound and...
DUBAL goes online with MetricStream for Enterprise Risk Management
MetricStream, the market leader in enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) solutions, today announced that Dubai Aluminium (DUBAL) has gone live with MetricStream Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Solution to centralize and streamline its corporate risk management program. As a...
