Champagne Metals is a privately held, family owned metal service center headquartered in Glenpool, OK, specializing in aluminum distribution and coil processing. The company sets itself apart from other service centers and processors through continuous investment in state-of-the-art coil processing equipment with the aim of exceeding performance expectations for their customers. Most recently, the company […]
Fineiral Alumina Group in Sainte-Hermine, France installed and started up a new 23 MN, 8 inch T-Win extrusion press from Danieli Breda. The company operates Reinal, its branch specializing in powder coating, and Algis, its branch for logistics and distribution. Now, Fineiral Alumina has expanded its business into the extrusion market in order to provide integrated production with […]
The National Research Council of Canada has formed a new alliance called ALTec Industrial research R&D Group to consolidate research efforts in the Canadian aluminum sector for the development of innovative aluminum products for ground transportation vehicles. As a cost-effective and sustainable material, aluminum is increasingly being used to manufacture components for lightweight vehicles which […]
A 56-foot art installation constructed of aluminum components, known as the Hive, was installed at the Kew Royal Botanical Gardens in London, U.K. Inspired by scientific research into the health of bees, British artist Wolfgang Buttress designed the structure to respond to the real-time activity of bees from in a nearby beehive at Kew. As the energy […]
Different metals have their own individual conductive properties for electric current and heat. Aluminum is one of the best performing metals for both purposes. Copper is an even better conductor, however it is much heavier and significantly more expensive. DODUCO GmbH, based in Pforzheim, Germany, has been focused on developing ways of combining both materials in order […]
Taweelah Aluminium Extrusion Co. (TALEX) LLC started operation of a casthouse supplied by Hertwich Engineering, part of SMS group, for extrusion billet at its facility in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The casthouse is part of the company’s first expansion stage, which also includes the installation of two extrusion lines. The TALEX Project Formed as a commitment of its shareholders […]
Indalum S.A. ordered a complete extrusion plant with a 3,100 ton, 9 inch front-loading press from Danieli Breda for its Monterrey, Mexico, facility. The modern extrusion line will include log storage and pusher, log heating furnace, log saw, billet loader, profile quenching unit, roller table and fly-cut saw system, stretcher, cut-to-length saw, and aging furnace. […]
Noranda Aluminum Holding Corporation entered into an asset purchase agreement for its flat rolled products business with Gränges AB, a supplier of rolled products for brazed aluminium heat exchangers in Sweden. Under the agreement, a subsidiary of Gränges will serve as the “stalking horse” bidder for Noranda’s flat rolled products business in a court-supervised sale process […]
