COMMENT :
Aluminium glitters, demand escalates, lucrative signals for investment punters
Aluminium industry an important part of the booming global economy plays a key role in deciding a country's competitiveness in the global arena. Consolidation of the aluminium industry and significant new capacity addition on a global scale is the name of the game for the moment. In India turnover of the domestic aluminium sector accounts for 0.35-0.40% of the country's escalating GDP, whereas for other countries like the US, China, EU, UAE, the same figure wears a much more emphatic outlook.
IN FOCUS
Machining light metals for near net shape
While die casting experts are working on producing die cast parts to net shape, machine tool and machining system builders are busy producing machines that remove the not-so-net excess more efficiently. These machines are different from the ones designed for heavier metals.
NEWS CORNER
Siemens Metals Technologies is to Make its UK Facilities into a Worldwide Competence Center for Plate Rolling Mills and Aluminium Plants
Siemens Metals Technologies has combined its two UK locations in Sheffield and Christchurch intoa special subdivision called “Plate & Aluminium Rolling”, which will be responsible under the new management of Hans-Werner Linne for worldwide business with plate and aluminium rolling mills.
COMPANY PROFILE
Swiss company Alu-Scout brings in a golden opportunity for the Indian aluminium companies & users
Termed as a unique one stop solution for the aluminium industry, Alu-Scout® is the brain child of Alfred G Frauchiger and Lorenzo P Giulini, from a family having association in the aluminium industry since 1887. In today’s world of information one always values time the most powerful and hence in 2002 Alu-Scout® was floated to solely cater to the entire industry well equipped in search of qualified personnel, suppliers, products details and many more relevant points at just one go. There was no looking back after that.
METAL NEWS
Semi-Solid Metal Casting: Reducingthe Cost of Copper Alloy Parts
Semi-solid metal casting (SSM), or die casting with metal in the semi-solid state, is a near-net shape manufacturing method that offers manufacturers and users of copper alloy parts an alternative and, in many cases, lower cost way to produce large quantities of parts with improved part quality compared to traditional pressure die casting.
RUSSIAN ALUMINIUM manufacturers come up as a major force in the near future
However, the Russians aren't alone in foreseeing the fact that there is good value in producing aluminium in Russia. The country itself is one of the largest producers of the metal in the world today. Norsk Hydro, the world’s 4th largest aluminium producer, has recently unveiled plans to build a new green field aluminium smelter in either the North of Russia or in the Russian Far East.
REFRACTORY
Production of si3n4/sic composites for aluminum electrobath under oxidized atmosphere
Si3N4/SiC composite has been applied in the side wall of aluminum electrobath widely in China due to the material has not only high oxidation resistance in air, but high resistance to the corrosion of cryolite and Al melt also.
SPECIAL COVERAGE
Demand is the driving force of supply
Aluminum represents the second largest metals market in the world. Growing demand for the lightweight metal is fuelled largely by the booming Chinese economy which already consumes a quarter of the world’s aluminium production. Analysts predict an annual growth rate of 7 to 14% in the Chinese automotive industry up to 2011, a 12% increase in construction expenditure in 2007 and a minimum of
plus 16 million annual growth in urban population during the next 8 years.
TECHNOLOGY FOCUS
Added-value product and process know-how for top quality aluminium strip production.
In a marketplace where suppliers compete to sell generic equipment for both ferrous and non-ferrous rolling companies, it is refreshing to find a new solution. In an exclusive arrangement, the skills of Danieli Fröhling, Danieli Automation, and Innoval Technology have been applied to introduce a new generation of aluminium rolling mills, the so-called Diamond Mills.
TECHNOLOGY/PROCEE REVIEW
Solution for engineering Technology in Cold Rolling Operations for Ferrous & Non Ferrous Industries with a Joint Venture of Spain & India
Our company has been founded with the purpose of making available to the Indian market, a complete range of heavy duty machinery for the metal working industry and a wide range of technological services that up to now have been available only through purchases and imports from overseas markets.
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