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TSI Chemlogix offers LIBS metal analysis tools and LIBS sorting systems that work for your business. TSI’s ChemLite™ handheld metal analysers provide the best elemental concentration and material ID in 1-2 seconds with no x-ray radiations and zero regulations. Designed to meet the needs of nonferrous scrap yards, sort Al and SS alloys with ease. The ChemLite is the only 3rd party certified, class 1 eye safe LIBS analyser on the market. The industrial proven ChemLine™ automatic sorting system provides high capacity automatic sorting of nonferrous scrap. Sort your...

According to an Iranian Mines & Mining Industries Development & Renovation Organization (IMIDRO) official statement, Iran’s major aluminium producers produced 151,691 tonnes of aluminium during the five-month period from March 21 to August 22, registering a growth of 10 per cent from the same period of 2017. IMIDRO data registered an aluminium output of 137,473 tons during the five-month period of 2017. Last month, Deputy Minister of Industries, Mining and Trade Mehdi Karbasian announced that a large aluminium production plant with a capacity of 300,000-tonne per year...

Hydro is taking a new step as a global supplier of innovative and sustainable aluminium solutions, embarking on a new chapter of its 112-year history with a new visual identity.   After its 2017 acquisition of Sapa, the world’s No. 1 aluminium extrusion company, Hydro now has a significant presence in all parts of the aluminium value chain. The company is marking this new chapter in its 112-year history by renewing and modernising its visual identity after a year-long process with broad involvement among its 35,000 employees worldwide.   “We are still the same...

PyroGenesis Canada Inc. has received a multi-million dollar order for two DROSRITETM furnace systems from an Asian client; the name, and value of the contract, remain confidential for competitive reasons. The Systems are the third and fourth commercial systems sold to date, and the first order from this new Client. Delivery of the Systems is expected to be in April 2019. PyroGenesis’ DROSRITETM system is a salt-free, cost-effective, sustainable process for maximising metal recovery from dross, a waste generated in the metallurgical industry. PyroGenesis’ patented...

Ball Corporation has inaugurated a new production plant in Spain located in Cabanillas del Campo, Guadalajara.  With this new factory, which represents for Ball a significant investment of more than 100 million euros, the company expands its presence in Spain, where it already has another production facility located in La Selva del Camp (Tarragona). The plant’s capacity is contracted to existing Ball customers. With two production lines and an annual capacity 1.6 billion units, the plant will produce aluminium speciality cans. Cabanillas is a state-of-the-art,...

Instructed by the directors of ESH Edelstahl AG who are retiring Stainless Steel & Aluminium Sheet and Strip Grinding, Brushing & Polishing Equipment •    Hill Acme Sheet to Sheet Grinding & Polishing Line •    Ungerer Cut to Length Line •    Eisenblatter Polishing & Patterning Line •    Carl Wezel Pull Through Slitter •    Grinding Master MB600 Strip Grinding Line •    Kunz USM/SBH3 Circle Cutter •    Rotan Circle...

JW Aluminum is investing $32.8 million to optimise equipment for foil production.  The investment includes projects to enhance existing rolling mills, annealing equipment and slitters to improve quality, reliability and throughput for the fin stock, honeycomb foil and flexible packaging markets. The upgrades will also further automate control systems in the company’s foil producing facilities – Russellville, Arkansas; Saint Louis, Missouri and Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The expansion of the Goose Creek, South Carolina facility, focused on the sheet side of the...

In September 2018, AMAG became the first integrated location worldwide with a foundry and rolling mill under one roof to be certified according to the ASI Performance Standard, one of the highest industry standards for the responsible production and procurement of aluminium as well as related product responsibility. This officially confirms the sustainable production and processing of aluminium at Ranshofen, a status from which AMAG customers also benefit: this gives them the security that, with AMAG, they have a supplier that takes sustainability issues seriously. Dr. Helmut...