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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Ferro Introduces Aluminum Contact Pastes For Silicon Solar Cells
Ferro Electronic Materials, a supplier of materials for fabricating photovoltaic silicon solar cells, has developed two new rear aluminum conductor pastes: AL 5130 and AL 5131. According to the company, the new pastes allow cell manufacturers to reduce paste consumption by up to 20% and form a...
Alumina Abrasives produce superior optical finish
Meller Microlux Alumina Abrasive Powders can produce surface finishes to 10-5 scratch-dig on calcium fluoride, ferrites, germanium, silicon, stainless steel, zinc selenide, and zinc sulfide. Featuring seven particle sizes from 0.05 to 3.0 um, these high purity calcined alumina abrasive powders are...
Shandong Weiqiao orders high bay store and coil transport system
The Chinese Weiqiao Textile Group is expanding its field of business and investing in a production facility for aluminum at Shandong Weiqiao Aluminum & Electricity Company in Zouping located in the province of Shandong in eastern China. To ensure the secure transport and storage of the coils...
SMS Logistiksysteme starts up fully automated coil logistics system at Asia Alum
SMS Logistiksysteme of Germany has successfully started up a comprehensive logistics system for hot and cold rolled aluminum coils at the rolled products facilities of Asia Alum in Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province, China in the past months. The hot coils, delivered to the inspection line by rail...
Century Aluminum Saves Thousands with Upgrade to LED Obstruction Lights
With an operating capacity of 244,000 tons per year, Century Aluminum’s primary aluminum smelting plant in Hawesville, Ky., has been in operation since 1969. The original 400-ft chimney stack featured an incandescent beacon lighting system installed in the 1970s. Looking to upgrade its antiquated...
Outotec Bags Contract from EMAL
Outotec has received two contracts worth €100m from Emirates Aluminium (EMAL) to expand an aluminium smelter in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Under the contract, Outotec will deliver aluminium smelter technology to the second phase of EMAL's smelter expansion project located at Al-Taweelah.
Nanshan Aluminum Science & Technology Projects Win State Funding Supports
The Science & Technology project undertaken by Shangdong Nanshan Aluminum Co.,LTD has recently listed into national science and technology support plan with 12.52 million supporting funds. The project——Liquid aluminum short alloying process and key technology of plastic forming is led and organized...
MIIT Continues to Implement the National Aluminum Industry Policy
MIIT announces that it will continue to carry out our national aluminum industry policy and strictly control aluminum production capacity as well as promoting energy-efficient technological transformation of electrolytic aluminum. It will endeavor to realize the goal of direct current...
Outotec seals €100M Emal contracts
Outotec has secured two contracts to deliver technology to the second phase of Emirates Aluminium’s smelter. The €100M order will see Outotec deliver technology, engineering, supply and installation of a green anode plant with one anode production line, along with a crushing plant for recycled...
There Can Only Be One Aluminium Ultra-thin Notebook
Magnesium-aluminium, the current darling of the tech industry is in devastatingly short supply because the two main players, Taiwan based Catcher Technology and Foxconn Technology are already supplying for Apple. Apple uses the tough and lightweight material in almost all their products, which have...
Huawei crafts aluminum body for new Vision smartphone
Huawei is jumping on the trend to make Android-based smartphones thinner and lighter, launching its "Vision" smartphone on Wednesday with an aluminum alloy body. Huawei's Vision is equipped with features that are standard on most mid-market Android-based smartphones, including a 1GHz Qualcomm...
Alumina Abrasives From Meller Optics Produce Superior Finish at Lower Cost Than Diamond Abrasives
Meller Optics, Inc. provides a complete line of high purity calcined alumina polishing abrasives for grinding, lapping, and producing a superior finish on optics at a lower cost than diamond abrasives.
Sigma Labs Receives Contract From Alcoa for Advanced Manufacturing Process Development
Sigma Labs, Inc. announced today that it received a contract from Alcoa, Inc. (NYSE:AA - News) to demonstrate the feasibility of applying Sigma Labs' In-Process Quality Assurance (IPQA) technology to the welding of advanced aluminum structures. Sigma Labs expects this exploratory contract to...
New Micro-Sized Extruded Ceramic Tubes for Medical, Aerospace and Electronics
Morgan Technical Ceramics (MTC) GBC Materials has launched new extruded micro-sized rods and tubes in high purity Alumina and Steatite for medical, aerospace, electronics and appliance applications. There is increasing demand for smaller components and the intricate parts are extremely...
UNIMET-PLUS – All New Aluminium Instrument Enclosures From METCASE
METCASE has developed an all new range of instrument enclosures – UNIMET-PLUS – for the very latest in desktop and portable OEM electronics equipment. UNIMET-PLUS aluminium enclosures are similar in size to METCASE’s popular UNIMET series but with a completely new internal design and assembly...
LEONI : reduces component weight by 50 percent
Leoni, the leading provider of cables and cable systems to the automotive sector and other industries, now offers a solid aluminium conductor for the motor vehicle industry to wire the battery as an alternative to the common copper cable. It can be shaped in three dimensions and weighs only about...
Brazilian Utility Upgrades Transmission Line
Brazilian utility AES Eletropaulo has upgraded a transmission line that carries electricity through a congested portion of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The utility used 3M Aluminum Conductor Composite Reinforced (ACCR) overhead conductor to more than double the transmission line's capacity without the need...
Exploration Orbite: Filing of New Patent Application for an Innovative Method to Separate Efficiently Iron From Aluminum
Exploration Orbite (TSX VENTURE:ORT.A) is pleased to announce that it has filed an application for a new patent on another radical innovation for separation methods used for iron-aluminum mixtures. The provisional patent application (US 61/508,950) was initially filed with the United States Patent...
