Almex USA published a campaign to promote safety awareness for aluminum casthouse operations. “Five Days of Safety” offers five tips — focused on Hazard Assessment, Personnel Protective Equipment, Technology Controls, Moisture Management, and Best Practices — along with colorful infographics that visually emphasize the safety tips to consider when working with molten aluminum. “Every casthouse […]
June 17 – “Europe braces itself for another aluminium premium hike,” Metal Bulletin European aluminium market participants are preparing for a last increase in premiums ahead of the summer slowdown, with producers, traders and consumers all forecasting higher premiums over the next few weeks. Metal Bulletin’s European duty-paid aluminium premium stands at $405-435 per tonne, while […]
The lightweight concept vehicle represents Ford’s ongoing research for future light-weighting and advanced materials applications, building on the all-new Ford F-150, which sheds up to 700 lbs through use of high-strength aluminum (front sub-frame, high pressure die castings, aluminum brake rotors, etc.) and steel alloys. Lightweighting is a key component of Ford’s Blueprint for Sustainability […]
The August 2014 issue of Light Metal Age is now available. The digital edition has been released to subscribers and the print edition will be shipped next week. The cover features the newly built HybrEx 25, the radically different 25 MN extrusion press designed by the SMS Meer R&D and Technology Group headed by […]
The assembly line that mass produces the aluminum-bodied 2015 Ford F150 is as innovative as teh truck itself. Two decade in the planning, it features precise computer-modeled stamping, rivets, flow-through screws instead of welds, and scrap recycling. Ford demonstrates these innovations in a new video.
The European Aluminium Association released a new video about the unique lifecycle story of aluminum.
The 3rd Annual Global Automotive Lightweight Materials Detroit (GALM) congress will be held on August 20-21 in Detroit, Michigan. As OEMs seek to develop vehicle lightweighting strategies that will allow them to cost-effectively meet fuel economy targets, they are increasingly shifting their focus to incorporating mixed-material solutions at mass produced scales. The highly anticipated Ford […]
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May 20 – “Exclusive: Goldman puts Metro metals warehousing unit up for sale,” Reuters Some U.S. lawmakers welcomed news that Goldman is taking steps to exit the metals warehousing business that end-users such as Coca-Cola Co and MillerCoors, which use aluminum to make beverage cans say has led to long wait times and inflated physical […]
The June 2014 issue of Light Metal Age is now available. The digital edition has been released to subscribers and the print edition will be shipped next week. The cover features the new runnout system at take-charge extruder Bonnell Aluminum in Newnan, GA, which installed a new start-of-the-art extrusion line engineered to automotive specifications. […]
