Logan Aluminum, a joint venture owned by Novelis and Tri-Arrows Aluminum Inc. (a consolidated subsidiary of UACJ Corp.), plans to expand its manufacturing operations in order to increase capacity of flat rolled aluminum in Russellville, Kentucky. The new capacity will primarily be used to serve the beverage can market. In the U.S., aluminum cans are […]
UC Rusal opened the first phase of its Taishet aluminum smelter, one of the world’s most advanced low-carbon aluminum production plants. Based in Taishet, Siberia, Russia, the smelter combines state-of-the-art technologies and hydropower to produce low-carbon aluminum. “The opening of our new low-carbon aluminum smelter in Taishet is an important milestone in Rusal’s journey to […]
Novelis Inc. plans to invest $365 million to build a highly advanced recycling center for automotive in North America, built adjacent to its existing automotive finishing plant in Guthrie, Kentucky. The facility is expected to support the expansion of the company’s automotive closed-loop-recycling programs and reduce its carbon emissions by more than one million tons […]
Hydro is focused on sustainability, having set ambitious climate, environmental, and social targets — including the goal of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. Currently, the company is on track to meet this goal, with the expectation of reducing its emissions 10% by 2025 and 30% by 2030 (from a 2018 baseline). One of Hydro’s main […]
AMETEK Surface Vision, headquartered in Hayward, California, is joining forces with Sensory Analytics, based in Greensboro, North Carolina. The companies are forming a strategic partnership that will provide customers with significant cost savings as well as improved quality and production. Part of AMETEK Process and Analytical Instruments, AMETEK Surface Vision produces automated online surface inspection solutions […]
Aluminum Insights broke ground on its new, $17.5 million, state-of-the art aluminum extrusion facility in Syracuse, Indiana. Founded in 2020, Aluminum Insights is a start up company that aims to serve a select group of customers in the Upper Midwest to support their extrusion needs, integrate seamlessly into their supply chain, and partner in innovation. […]
Hazelett Strip-Casting Corporation in Colchester, Vermont, has become a member of the EBNER Group, headquartered in Leonding, Austria. EBNER acquired a majority interest in Hazelett, with Mino S.p.A., based in Alessandria, Italy, remaining a shareholder and David Hazelett remaining both a shareholder and president of the company. “From the first time I met David Hazelett […]
Alcoa has developed a new, patented process for the purification of post-consumer aluminum scrap. This ASTREA™ process is designed to process low quality scrap (such as zorba, which is comprised of shredded aluminum and other nonferrous metals from automobiles) into an extremely high purity level equivalent to or surpassing P0101 aluminum alloys (containing only 0.1% […]
