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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CHINA ZHONGWANG - Never Give Up USA Market, Annual Order 400 Thousand Ton
Performance of CHINA ZHONGWANG (01333.HK) with help of Chinese market helped it gradually cope with the downturn from America’s antidumping and countervailing investigation. Lu Changqing, executive director and vice president of CHINA ZHONGWANG said,that since the group will increase high-end...
Metallurgical Arc joining of steel and aluminium to make hybrid sheets
An impressive innovation has shifted the limits of welding still further: Whereas steel and aluminium were once thought to be incapable of thermal joining, this is now perfectly feasible in actual practice. The revolutionary solution has made the visions of material experts, design engineers and...
Qatalum uses HMR’s Tapping System
All liquid aluminium from the potrooms to the casthouse at Qatalum aluminium plant in Qatar is transported by a complete tapping system, delivered by Norwegian company HMR Hydeq. An agreement with Fata of Italy, which was Qatalum’s main casthouse contractor, includes 12 tapping vehicles with the...
Nichols Aluminum in coil annealing deal
Sheet producer Nichols Aluminum, a subsidiary of Quanex Building Products, has bought a Vortex Jet Heating coil annealing furnace for processing aluminium sheet at its Lincolnshire, Illinois plant. The furnace, which incorporates Seco/Warwick’s Vortex jet nozzle system, will increase the plant’s...
Metallurgical Arc-joining of Steel and Aluminium to Make Hybrid Sheets
An impressive innovation has shifted the limits of welding still further: Whereas steel and aluminium were once thought to be incapable of thermal joining, this is now perfectly feasible in actual practice. The revolutionary solution has made the visions of material experts, design engineers and...
NMIC Introduces Industry's First Aluminum Diamond Heat Spreader Material For GaN Devices
Nano Materials International Corp. (NMIC) recently introduced the first commercial device-level solution for dissipating the heat generated by high-density semiconductor devices such as gallium nitride (GaN) RF power transistors. When used as a heat spreader integrated with a device, NMIC's new...
Toyo Densen brings out new aluminum tube for air conditioner
Japan Metal Bulletin reported that Japanese pipe work material maker Toyo Densen adds new size coated aluminum tube for air conditioner within this year. The firm sells thin diameter products and adds middle size pair coil and brings out dedicated tool for aluminum tube when users are switching...
Shanxi Huaze Aluminum & Power Co., LTD Holds Lecture on Hot and Difficult Issues
Quality Inspection Center of Shanxi Huaze Aluminum & Power Co., LTD holds August lecture on the basis of analyzing general work on August 11th. In the lecture Technical staffs analysis ways to combine five businesses that including quality inspection, testing, information and automation. During the...
Chinalco Henan Branch is Carrying out Alumina Technology Reform Project
Constructors in Chinalco Henan Branch are working 24 hours without a rest. It is said that the project is a particularly significant project for Henan branch in 2011 with an investment of 0.24 billion Yuan. Currently, the main framework of the project has taken its initial shape and equipments have...
Rusal to Boost Aluminum Output on Demand for Computers, Phones
United Co. Rusal, the world’s largest aluminum producer, plans to increase output of high- purity aluminum used in computers and mobile phones as demand rises in Asia and the U.S. Rusal’s Krasnoyarsk plant in Russia is targeting a 13 percent increase in output of the high-purity metal this year to...
New Unit to Remove SO2 Emissions fom Aluminium Plant Flue Gases
Hydro's technology center in Årdal, Norway, is installing a unit to remove sulfur dioxide (SO2) from the flue gas from aluminium production. The unit will reduce annual emissions of SO2 from the technology center by 200 metric tons. It is the first industrial application of this technology.
Sichuan Aostaral Aluminum Co., LTD Achieve Fully Production
Sichuan Aostaral Aluminum Co., LTD recently has achieved full production. Projects of electrolytic cell energy saving has put into operation and electrolytic aluminum production rose from the initial 10,417 ton per month to the current 13,000 ton.
Hydro to install environmental technology in Årdal
Hydro's technology center in Årdal, Norway, is installing a unit to remove sulfur dioxide (SO2) from the flue gas from aluminium production. The unit will reduce emissions of SO2 from the technology center by 200t/y. It is the first industrial application of this technology. The new facility has an...
CHENCO GmbH Announces Initiation of Claims Proceedings Against Do-Fluoride Chemicals (DFD) for Unauthorized Use of Technology, Material Breach of Contract and Violations of Confidentiality Totaling More Than Euro 23 Million
CHENCO GmbH announced that they have filed claims of more than EUR 23 Million against Do-Fluoride Chemicals (DFD, 002407.SZ) of Henan, China under ICC arbitration for immediate judgment.
Mongolian alumina project breaks ground
A 200kt/y alumina project, based on coal ash-to-alumina technology, recently broke ground in Erdos, west Inner Mongolia.
Guangxi Subsidiary Company of Chinalco Faces with Electricity Shortage
Since July and August, Guangxi province ‘s severest electricity shortage in 20 years together with supply tension of coal and high stress from Nanning-Kunming railway all lead Guangxi subsidiary company of Chinalco to face great challenges. In terms of alumina, the key is preventing cost from...
BMW Shuns Steel, Shows Preference For Carbon Fiber and Aluminum
BMW has revealed details of just one of the projects they have been spending all those millions of euros of profit on recently. BMW has released details of two concept cars which they hope will be sufficiently different from all the other EV and hybrid offerings out there to generate volume sales....
ESAB offers guide on MIG wires and TIG rods for aluminium welding
ESAB is offering a 12-page, full-colour A4 booklet, entitled Aluminium welding quality and knowledge, which features a range of Metal Inert Gas (MIG) wires and Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) rods for aluminium welding.
