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New Recording Anode and Cathode Ammeters for Aluminium Smelters from VHE
20 MAR 20121MINS

New Recording Anode and Cathode Ammeters for Aluminium Smelters from VHE

VHE has launched a new range of recording anode and cathode ammeters. The meters are designed to measure the d.c. current in cathode riser bars and anode rod stems and have been redesigned, including an updated display panel incorporating Bluetooth technology. In use, visual and aural prompts cue...

Lydall Product Innovation Wins 2012 AluFoil Trophy
14 MAR 20123MINS

Lydall Product Innovation Wins 2012 AluFoil Trophy

The automotive products group of Lydall, Inc. LDL +0.33% announced today that its constrained layer damping (CLD) heat shield product won the 2012 AluFoil Trophy in the Technical Innovation category. "The European Aluminum Foil Association judges liked the simple, but effective use of aluminium to...

Effective Ways to Improve Aluminum Profiles Competitiveness
14 MAR 20121MINS

Effective Ways to Improve Aluminum Profiles Competitiveness

Aluminum Enterprises realized that traditional technology and profit points were hard to develop and expand enterprise. The author thinks the following aspects can help to improve products competitiveness. Through 20 years of development building profiles field has cultivated a lot of site...

Alcoa to Develop Enhanced Welding Techniques for the Navy
14 MAR 20121MINS

Alcoa to Develop Enhanced Welding Techniques for the Navy

Alcoa, a manufacturer of primary aluminum, fabricated aluminum and alumina, has received a $2.1 million contract from the U.S. Navy to develop advanced welding technologies to decrease aluminum-intensive shipbuilding costs. A collaboration program has been developed by scientists at New Kensington,...

Dubal to showcase technological innovation
12 MAR 20122MINS

Dubal to showcase technological innovation

Dubai Aluminium will showcase its technological excellence when it takes part in the TMS Annual Meeting and Exhibition in the US next week. Being held at the Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida from March 11th to 15th 2012 the focus of TMS is on providing materials science and engineering...

Batch homogenizing plant for Hammerer Aluminium
11 MAR 20121MINS

Batch homogenizing plant for Hammerer Aluminium

Hammerer Aluminium Industries of Austria has placed an order with Hertwich Engineering of Austria for the supply of a batch homogenizing furnace for their existing casthouse. The new homogenizing plant is already the second of its kind supplied by Hertwich Engineering to HAI. The furnace is...

Alcoa’s Shipbuilding Techniques Expected to Save Costs
11 MAR 20122MINS

Alcoa’s Shipbuilding Techniques Expected to Save Costs

Aluminum producer Alcoa Inc. will see its advanced shipbuilding techniques paying off in an initial $2.1 million U.S. Navy contract. Alcoa has been working on improving defense uses of aluminum and alloys and, in a statement, said its involvement will "provide a critical advantage to the Navy,...

Sapa Signs Technology Agreement with Japanese Kobe Steel
11 MAR 20122MINS

Sapa Signs Technology Agreement with Japanese Kobe Steel

Sapa AB of Sweden and Kobe Steel Ltd. of Japan have signed an agreement under which Kobe Steel will provide Sapa with production technology for aluminum extrusions to be used in Sapa's more than 50 extrusion plants in Europe, North America and Asia, according to information from Sapa. The agreement...

MIT Aims To Prevent Contamination In Aluminum Recycling
08 MAR 20124MINS

MIT Aims To Prevent Contamination In Aluminum Recycling

Aluminum has long been the poster child of recycling. About half of all aluminum used in the United States is now recycled, and this recycling has clear and dramatic benefits: Pound for pound, it takes anywhere from nine to 18 times as much energy to produce aluminum from raw ore as from recycled...

Hydro extends contracts with EDB ErgoGroup
07 MAR 20121MINS

Hydro extends contracts with EDB ErgoGroup

Hydro has extended three agreements with EDB ErgoGroup forthe development, management and operation of Hydro's Commodity Trading System(CTS). The renewed agreements run for three years, with the option to extend for further two years. The three agreements represent total contract value of NOK17...

Kobe Steel Ltd : March 6, 2012 Kobe Steel signs global technology agreement with Swedish Sapa
06 MAR 20122MINS

Kobe Steel Ltd : March 6, 2012 Kobe Steel signs global technology agreement with Swedish Sapa

Kobe Steel, Ltd. has signed a technical transfer agreement with Swedish Sapa AB under which Kobe Steel will provide Sapa with production technology for high-quality aluminium extrusions to be used in Sapa's 50 extrusion plants in Europe, North America and Asia. Both companies excel in aluminium...

Dubal to showcase technological innovations
06 MAR 20122MINS

Dubal to showcase technological innovations

Dubai Aluminium (Dubal) will showcase its technological excellence when it takes part in the TMS Annual Meeting and Exhibition (TMS 2012) in the US next week. Being held at the Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida, from March 11 to 15, the focus of TMS is on providing materials science and...

Chinalco Shanxi Branch and Central South University Proceed Alumina Technical Exchange
06 MAR 20121MINS

Chinalco Shanxi Branch and Central South University Proceed Alumina Technical Exchange

Peng Zhihong and Liu Guihua who is the famous scholars in alumina industry and professors of Alkaline Process Metallurgy Research Institute of Central South University came to Chinalco Shanxi Branch held technical exchange. Technicists of company technical center, the first and second alumina...

Linde to Highlight Low-temperature Oxyfuel Technologies
01 MAR 20123MINS

Linde to Highlight Low-temperature Oxyfuel Technologies

The highly competitive aluminum industry is constantly looking for economic, environmentally sound ways of melting scrap to produce high quality aluminum. Linde, a leading supplier of industrial gases to the aluminum industry, has just what they are looking for: Low-temperature Oxygen-enhanced...

Greaves Corporation Announces the All-Aluminum PTA Series Pin Adapter
27 FEB 20122MINS

Greaves Corporation Announces the All-Aluminum PTA Series Pin Adapter

Greaves Corporation announces the all-aluminum PTA Series Aluminum Pin Adapter to complete the family of aluminum-barrel pin adapters. The PTA adapter is designed to be installed on an aluminum cable which has been up-sized for any of a variety of reasons, such as to reduce voltage drop in a long...

North China Aluminum Required to Learn Wrought Aluminum and Aluminum Alloy Ingots
23 FEB 20121MINS

North China Aluminum Required to Learn Wrought Aluminum and Aluminum Alloy Ingots

In order to enhance technical quality administration the Technical Division of company issued the national standard of defected series wrought aluminum and aluminum alloy ingots and processed products. This national standard ruled the definition and characteristics of defected wrought aluminum and...

Aluminum Fittings and Valves suit HVAC systems
22 FEB 20123MINS

Aluminum Fittings and Valves suit HVAC systems

Innovative aluminum tube fittings and valves for air conditioning and heating systems are now available in the American market. Made of special aluminum alloy, with lead content less than 0.01 per cent, LOCUS's tube fittings and valves are installed using the threaded lok-type fitting connection...

Conference on Aluminium recycling in Brazil
21 FEB 20121MINS

Conference on Aluminium recycling in Brazil

Aluminium professionals will meet at the V Aluminum International Congress and the XI International Seminar on Aluminum Recycling They will analyse recent technological innovations in the aluminium chain, metal applications in the main consumer markets and to discuss the challenges for the sector...