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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Novelis Korea orders cold rolling mill
Novelis Korea has placed an order with Siemens VAI Metals Technologies for a tandem cold rolling mill. The plant will produce flat strip for the beverage can industry in Yeongju, South Korea and is due to start production in 2013. Siemens will supply all the electrical engineering and equipment,...
Siemens to equip new tandem cold rolling mill for Novelis Korea
Novelis Korea Limited has placed an order with Siemens VAI Metals Technologies to equip its new aluminum cold rolling mill with automation and drive systems. The plant is a tandem mill which will produce high quality flat strip for the beverage can industry in Yeongju in Korea. The value of the...
New Power Booster for Kingle Aluminium-Industrial Profiles
Kingle Aluminium’s strategic partnership with Hunan Nonferrous Metals Co., of China Minmetals has brought great opportunity for Kingle Aluminium’s development. With the repaid development of the national economy, industrial aluminium profiles are becoming increasingly important to the industry...
Ultra High Purity Alumina Plant
The Jacob's report noted that the HPA plant will be an "open loop" without recycled HCL reagent. Jacob's estimates the HCL reagent component represents 75% cost of HPA initially. However, this will be replaced with the startup of the SGA plant that will be alumina feed stock for the HPA plant in...
Five Development Trends for Aluminum Alloy Profiles
There are 5 development trends for aluminum profiles in th near future. First one is multicolour surfacing profiles. The silver and tawny color can not meet the demands at present, colors like champagne, golden yellow, golden, red may make the decoration better. This kind of profiles will perform...
Copper clad aluminium wire has come a long way!
Today, there are different types of wires available in the market. Such as copper wires, aluminium wires, steel clad copper wires, tinsel wires, tin coated copper wire, silver plated copper, and copper clad aluminium. Copper clad aluminium wire, commonly abbreviated as CCA or CCAW, is simply an...
Economical preheating furnace improves safety
Most smelters add cold aluminium metal to the charge of molten aluminium in the casthouse furnaces. This metal may be in the form of sows, pure offcuts, or other scrap arisings. Such metal is frequently stored outdoors and can be wet. Charging of damp aluminium to hot furnaces results in the...
UMC intros 0.11µm aluminium BEOL process
Semiconductor foundry United Microelectronics Corporation has announced a specialised 0.11um aluminium process manufactured in its 8-inch fabs. The A+ platform consists of a blend of technology offerings, which include logic/MM, RFCMOS, eFlash, eE2PROM, eHV and CIS to address customers'...
Accuride Boosts Aluminum Truck Wheel Capacity
Last year, Accuride significantly enhanced its capacity to make aluminum wheels for the commercial vehicle industry. This was made possible by a combination of strategic acquisitions, key process technology investments and transfers of aluminum wheel machining lines within its operations. These...
RUSAL PROFILE: Aluminium producer looks to cut debt and costs, focus on products
United Company Rusal remains focused on cutting debt and costs and meeting its customers' requirements, rather than looking at new projects or acquisitions, first deputy ceo Vladislav Soloviev told Metal Bulletin. The company believes Russia and especially eastern Siberia have vast potential, and...
Emal, Dubal sign technology license agreement
The licensing by Dubai Aluminium (DUBAL) of its in-house developed and proprietary DX+ Technology to Emirates Aluminium Company Limited (EMAL) has been formalized through the signature of a contractual agreement between the two companies. In effect, DX+ Technology has been specified for and will be...
Reynaers Aluminium 's key themes will be sustainability and thermal efficiency at ECOBUILD 2011
Demonstrating both sustainability and thermal efficiency, Reynaers Aluminium will be showcasing a number of thermally improved systems at EcoBuild 2012 including its market leading window and door system, CS104, ideal for passive construction. Also featured on the stand will be CF77 Concept Folding...
Rusal IRKAZ and ItN Nanovation finish testing nano coatings for casting production
The Irkutsk Aluminum Smelter, IRKAZ which belongs to Russian aluminum company UC Rusal, has successfully finished testing Nanocomp Metcast, nanocoatings developed by Rusnano's project company ItN Nanovation AG of Germany. Rusal in a press release said that "Nanocomp Metcast are innovative...
Dubal keeps options open on acquisitions
Dubai Aluminum (Dubal) will keep its eye on potential acquisitions but is not planning to raise capital from the market in 2012, a top company executive said yesterday. Abdullah Kalban, president and chief executive of Dubal, told Gulf News that the company was upbeat about its prospects for next...
Dubal, Emal ink technology licence accord
Dubai Aluminium said it has formalised a deal to instal its in-house developed proprietary high amperage smelting technology at Emirates Aluminium Company (Emal), a gaint aluminium smelter complex in the UAE with an annual output of 750,000 tonnes. As per the technology licence agreement, Dubal's...
Davies Named President, Alcoa Global Business Services
Alcoa (NYSE:AA - News) announced today that Mark Davies has joined the company as President – Alcoa Global Business Services, responsible for implementing new Information Technology and shared services strategies and integrating them with procurement operations into a global organization capable of...
Nanoceramic Coating of Nanostart-Holding ItN Nanovation AG Passes Field Trials at the World's Largest Aluminium Smelter RUSAL
Nanostart (otcqx:NASRY)-holding ItN Nanovation AG, (ISIN DE000A0JL461) announces that RUSAL's IRKAZ, an aluminium smelter based in Irkutsk, and specialists from RUSAL's Engineering and Technology Center, have successfully tested Nanocomp Metcast, nanocoatings developed by ItN Nanovation AG...
RNCOS E Services Private Limited: Innovative Application Leading to US Aluminum Industry Growth
A new research report launched by RNCOS titled, "US Aluminum Market Analysis", anticipates the aluminum market in the US to witness tremendous growth in the coming years. Innovative applications of aluminum by the introduction of light weight are further providing the necessary boost. Aluminum is...
