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Hydro Extruded Solutions AS has agreed with Arconic to acquire its two extrusion plants in Brazil. The agreement will strengthen Hydro's downstream position in Brazil and create a solid platform for further growth. "We believe in the integrated business model and Brazil is the country where Hydro's entire value chain is present. From bauxite and alumina, via primary production to extruded solutions, this will strengthen our ability to serve our customers," says President and CEO Svein Richard Brandtzæg. The two extrusion plants in Utinga and Tubarão...

STAS have announced a new commercialisation partnership with HENCON, a world-wide supplier of Mobile Equipment for the heavy industries.  As of now, STAS becomes an exclusive agent for HENCON products for Canada.  STAS will ensure the promotion and sales of the HENCON delivery program of mobile and stationary equipment, including related spare parts and services.  For Canadian customers, this partnership ensures compliance with Canadian standards such as CSA while our geographic proximity guarantees a better service. 

Novelis Inc., has announced a $4.5 million manufacturing investment at its facility in Warren, Ohio. The investment in state-of-the-art technology provides greater versatility for pretreatments, improves operational efficiency and reduces costs over time. Novelis’ Warren facility has 75 employees dedicated to applying coating to rolled aluminium sheet. The sheet is then used for production of lids for the tops of aluminium beverage cans, producing enough for more than one billion beverage can lids each month. “We are thrilled to announce this local investment,”...

Liberty House Group signs multi-million pound 'contract for innovation' International metals, industrials and engineering group, Liberty House, has signed a multi-million-pound partnership with the prestigious research centre, the Materials Processing Institute, designed to accelerate the growth of the business through innovation. The Group, which is already the UK’s fastest-growing industrial enterprise, with 5,500 employees, aims to use the Materials Processing Institute’s world-leading technical and scientific expertise to help it develop advanced...

TOKYO-Mitsui O.S.K .Lines Ltd. (MOL; President & CEO: Junichiro Ikeda) today announced that it held a signing ceremony for a five year bauxite transport contract with Alufer Mining Limited (Alufer; Chairman: Adonis Pouroulis, CEO: Bernard Pryor(*) The contract was signed by Toshiaki Tanaka, MOL’s Head of Dry Cargo, and Bernard Pryor at MOL’s offices in Tokyo. Alufer has received all required permissions from the government of Guinea with regard to building the Bel Air bauxite mine and construction commenced in January 2017. The Bel Air mine is located 15km from the...

Ball Corporation has collaborated with leading sparkling water brand PERRIER® to produce an exclusive, limited edition can for the French and Belgium markets.  The limited edition, titled Perrier X Wild, has seen a close collaboration between Ball and PERRIER to bring to life the colourful and vibrant designs created by rising Cuban artist, Juan Travieso. Celebrating the wild style and natural character of the PERRIER brand, the new limited edition explores the beauty of wildlife through Travieso’s unique vision, the vibrancy of which is rendered through Ball’s...

ET Foundation and Bonnell Aluminum invite entries for 2018 Aluminum Extrusion Design Competition. The ET Foundation, the educational and scientific organization devoted to promoting and advancing aluminum extrusion processes and technologies, has issued the Call for Entries for the 2018 International Aluminum Extrusion Design Competition.  The 2018 competition is divided into two classes: Professional and Student. Cash prizes and student scholarships will be presented to the top designs.  Bonnell Aluminum is the sole sponsor for the cash awards, totaling $20,000,...

Hydro today announced two new low-carbon aluminium products, designed to help customers reach their sustainability goals and meet the demand from ever more climate-conscious consumers. The new products will be independently certified by DNV GL.  The new products are:  • Hydro 4.0: hydropower-based aluminium with a maximum content of 4.0 kg CO2 per kg aluminium, and; • Hydro 75R: aluminium with a guaranteed post-consumer recycled content of minimum 75 percent  “We are proud of our industry-leading climate strategy that has resulted in producing...

Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba), home-base of the Line 6 Expansion Project, set the benchmark for sustainable power generation with the successful installation of the first H-class General Electric (GE) 9HA Gas Turbine (GT) at its Power Station (PS) 5. With this, Alba has become the first aluminium smelter in the world to use the largest and most efficient gas turbine produced by GE.   A ceremony was held to celebrate this occasion today, 28 November 2017 under the Patronage of Alba’s Chairman of Board of Directors, Shaikh Daij bin Salman bin Daij Al Khalifa and was...