COMMENT :
Indian aluminium to leverage on the country’s huge bauxite reserves
India’s per capita aluminium consumption at 0.7 kg (in 2005) was very low keeping
with the country’s low GDP. However, the low per capita consumption of aluminium
in India is in fact an opportunity for growth in aluminium consumption against the
back drop of fast growing economic conditions in India. However, aluminium
consumption in the country increased at 12.6% to around 1.08mt of late. Consumption
is estimated to have increased to a 5 year CAGR of 12.9%. Secondary aluminium
demand also shot up to 0.6 MT last year. All these actually speak for growth of the
white metal industry in India.
SPECIAL COVERAGE
Metals stage remarkable return with market surplus in tough situation
Going by the market reviews of the world wide market exponents in the recent months, it is apparent that market behaviour seems to be turning on a brighter lane after chasing long unfavourable roads as a result of stooping demand and prices to negligible extent.
NEWS CORNER
Aluminium level sensor
Aluminium casting using conventional level sensing
methods can result in poor uniformity, inadequate slab
shape and an overall reduction in surface quality.
Rotary Bath Crusher
VHE of Iceland has developed the Stimir robust
rotary crusher. The unit is suitable for pre-crushing of
large bath pieces.
New Orders for the VHE Hall Effect
Cathode Meter
Continuing the trend seen in recent years, more and
more smelters are recognising the benefits of using the
VHE Hall Effect Cathode Current Meter. Recent orders
include Hormozal - Iran, Dubai Aluminium – UAE and
Companhia Brasileira de Alumínio - Brazil.
FOCUS
Aluminium prices sets higher record even with low consumption.
The post recession period is the most crucial time,
as the economic activities, demand pattern including the
price went in to nadir during the worst recession. However
at the present times, the slow and gradual fading of the
recessionary pressure has definitely raised the hopes of
the industry people that now the economy would be
steadily getting into positive state with bustling of activities
from all the significant corners.
China dominates the Global
Aluminium Industry
Post recession, taking a look into the position of the
metal and base metal performance, the light metal
aluminium, has once again set huge records reaching a 14
months high of $2188 per tonne. To which market analysts
suggested that demand has already started picking up in
the developing countries like India and China.
BHP, RIO gets into giant
venture merging operations
Post recession, major changes in the form of
restructuring of the economy is quite obvious as the
recessionary pressure had severely impacted over the
core economic factors, thereby depicting a grim scenario
the world economy went through. The revival in the
otherwise numb economy is definitely a positive sign as
the world wide production that took a serious beating
with demand slump and price fall would slowly and
gradually take on the production to full capacity.
ALUMINIUM FORGING
Aluminium and its alloys can be forged into a wide variety of shapes
The formulations of lubricants used by forgers have
changed considerably over the years in response to optimal
manufacturing performance, as well as environmental
and safety concerns in the forge shop. This article examines
effective lubrication systems in use today for nonferrous
forging applications.
TECHNOLOGY / PROCESS REVIEW
Investments in Mill Modernization Pay Off
In today’s economical situation, producers are holding back investment and focusing more intensely on modernization for maximum short-term return. Here, key criteria are quantity and quality enhancements as well as operating-cost reductions and ease of maintenance. Siemens VAI offers a variety of solutions for upgrading rolling-mill equipment to increase plant capacity and capability while enhancing product-line quality and profitability.
China: Southwest Aluminium rolls first strip on two-stand tandem mill
On May 26, 2009, CSWA Cold Rolling Company (Southwest Aluminium), a member of the Chinalco Group, rolled the first strip on its new two-stand cold rolling mill for aluminum and aluminum alloys. CSWA, headquartered in the Xipeng district of the 30-mil-lion metropolis of Chongqing, wants to boost its cold-strip capacity to over 500,000 tpy.
ALUMINIUM PLANT
VAL, India: Largest aluminum works in Asia
Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL), India, in March 2009 placed an order with Hert-wich Engineering for supply and commissioning of three homogenizing and sawing plants. The equipment represents an integral part of the second expansion stage of an aluminum smelter in Jharsuguda located in the northwest of the state of Orissa. Start-up of both plants is scheduled in two stages, respectively for May and July 2010.
Upgrade and replacement of adjusting cylinders
In December 2008, we installed a new hydraulic adjusting cylinder in the
non-reversing four-high cold rolling mill of Novelis Switzerland SA. The
order had been placed with us in 2007. And here's what made this job a
special challenge: for replacement of the old cylinder to be at all possible,
SMS Siemag's service specialists first had to construct a special changing
beam.
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