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...
Grow with
AL Circle
Orbite Aluminae Inc. updates on its Key Appointments and Recent Business Developments
Orbite Aluminae Inc. CA:ORT +6.67% (the "Company") is pleased to announce the appointment of two new members to its management team. The Company is also proud to announce that it has added another patent to its intellectual property portfolio and has filed five new patent applications. In addition,...
Dubal fulfils corporate objectives at CRU 2012 in Abu Dhabi
Having participated actively in the Commodity Research Unit's 17th World Aluminium Conference 'CRU 2012', which took place in Abu Dhabi, UAE from 30 April to 2 May this year, Dubai Aluminium 'Dubal' has successfully achieved its corporate objectives for the event. So says Abdulla J M Kalban...
Alcoa Develops Aluminum Building-Exterior Panels that Sucks in Airborne Pollutants
Pittsburgh-based aluminum giant Alcoa has developed a new coating for its aluminum building panels that passively sucks in airborne pollutants and transforms them into harmless substances. Appropriately enough, the new panels are getting one of their first commercial tryouts at a new regional...
Alstom wins twin contracts from NALCO and RINL
Alstom, a global leader in power generation technology, today announced the award of two contracts in India – one for the supply of a Fume Treatment Plant at National Aluminium Company's (NALCO) Angul plant and the other for the supply of a Stock House Dust Extraction System at Rastriya Ispat Nigam...
Dubai Aluminium Dubal receives 2 category awards at Ideas Arabia 2012
The spirit of innovation and continuous improvement at Dubai Aluminium Dubal has again been recognized by an independent, peer based jury: the company received 2 category awards in the 2012 Ideas. Arabia Idea of the Year competition. The award ceremony was integral to the 7th Ideas. Arabia...
Dubai Aluminium takes honors at Ideas.Arabia
The spirit of innovation and continuous improvement at Dubai Aluminium (Dubal) — the world’s largest primary aluminum smelter using pre-bake anode technology — has again been recognized by an independent, peer-based jury: the company received two category awards in the 2012 Ideas.Arabia Idea of the...
VHE Pin Straighteners Solve Toe-in Issues for Aluminium Smelters
Pin toe-in is an understood and accepted phenomenon in all pre-bake aluminium smelters and VHE has been working to solve the problem. Toe-in is caused by the difference in expansion rates of the steel yoke or spider and the carbon anode as they heat up in the reduction cell. The yoke expands more...
Aluminij installs thimble stripping press
Bosnian group Aluminij has put into operation a €489,000 thimble stripping press in its Anode Plant. It also plans to install a €615,000 stub straightening machine very soon. Both items were supplied by the Outotec group. Anode Plant Director, Ivan Grle said the press was fully operational, and was...
Boyne Smelters Limited (BSL) new smelter shows the future
Boyne Smelters Limited (BSL) had a big moment on Friday when it officially opened its new, much-anticipated Carbon Bake Furnace 4 (CBF4). The development is part of a $720 million upgrade at the plant, launched in 2008 and designed to improve productivity and environmental performance. A carbon...
Smelter furnace upgrade opens
Boyne Smelters says more than $300 million spent on a new carbon bake furnace had been approved before its planned sell-off. The furnace officially opens today and is designed to reduce the smelters' greenhouse gas emissions by 20,000 tonnes per year. Last year, Rio Tinto Alcan announced it was...
Emirates Aluminium (EMAL) sponsors Mechatronics symposium
For the third consecutive year Emirates Aluminium (EMAL) sponsored the eighth International Symposium on Mechatronics and its Applications (ISMA) which was held at the American University of Sharjah from 10 to 12 April, 2012. Mechatronics concerns the fusion of multiple engineering practices to...
QuesTek Wins Grant to Develop A High-Strength, Thermally-Stable Aluminum Alloy
QuesTek Innovations LLC has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to apply QuesTek's Materials by Design technology to design and develop a new high-strength, thermally-stable aluminum alloy. The 2-year contract...
Researchers receive first “Hydro Green Aluminium Award”from Norsk Hydro
The two, Dr. Niklas Magnusson at SINTEF and Professor Magne Runde at SINTEF/NTNU, were awarded the prize of $35,000 at the Technoport Awards 2012 in Trondheim on Tuesday. They also received a work of art as part of the prize. Their work was on an energy-saving superconducting aluminium billet...
Clay samples from the Grande-Vallee contain Rare Earth Elements ("REE") and Rare Metal Elements ("RM") with Alumina: Orbite confirms
Orbite Aluminae Inc. is pleased to announce that recently completed assays of clay samples from the Grande-Vallee Marin Sector support the correlation between and association of potentially high-value rare earth elements ("REE") and rare metal elements ("RM") with alumina. These samples were taken...
Ball Corporation announces a metal technology that can use recycled aluminum in Aluminum Aerosol Packaging
Ball Corporation [NYSE: BLL] announced today a metal technology breakthrough that enables the use of recycled aluminum in the manufacture of extruded aluminum packaging for aerosols. The resulting new metal alloy exhibits increased strength and allows lightweighting of the container without...
Private Cloud Saves Rs 64.1crore per annum for Vedanta
Vedanta required a swift and hassle-free provision of IT services in the organization. Along with this, the company was looking at high availability of IT resources and services, better control and monitoring of infrastructure cost and scalability and resiliency to business requirements. Thus, the...
VHE's Stub Saw Provides an Energy Saving, Low Noise Solution for Aluminium Smelters
Steel anode stubs are routinely replaced in all prebake aluminium smelters. With increasing automation, smelters have looked for ways to replace environmentally unfriendly gas cutting, at the same time eliminating the HES concerns of noise and hot metal. At some rodding plants, rods are unhooked...
Vimetco’s Henan Zhongfu reaches the most advanced level in energy efficiency
Vimetco NV (LSE: VICO), the global producer of primary and processed aluminium products, today announces that its Chinese unit, Henan Zhongfu Industry Co., Ltd., has decreased its energy consumption to the lowest level worldwide, following a commercial test of new technology. "We will be able to...
