Neil Young said it in 1979: Rust never sleeps. Today, Battelle
researchers have taken his words to heart. In their innovative heads, they have
come up with a smart coating that can reveal where corrosion is forming on metal
even though one can't see the degradation with the naked eye.
Novelis today announced
the start of a new rapid delivery service in response to the needs of its aluminium
sheet customers in the lithographic printing sector. Novelis lithographic sheet
can now be delivered just two weeks from receipt of order, which is much shorter
than the industry standard.
Custom Mag wheels on a commercial truck? This idea would normally be too outrageously
cost-prohibitive to even consider, but the design team at RealWheels has made
it possible with their new patented RealMag Hub Cover.
In response to the declining world economic climate Rio Tinto Alcan is taking steps to ensure it remains competitive. These measures are outlined below.
Key measures
A further six per cent reduction in aluminium...
Recruiting in the ramp-up to first metal at the Qatalum aluminium plant in
Qatar is going full speed ahead.
Hydro
has decided to reduce production at its primary aluminium plant in Neuss, Germany,
by 30,000 tonnes by the end of January.
Advances in the heat treating of aluminum, titanium and next-generation composites
will be discussed during a two-day conference organized by the ASM
Heat Treating Society.
Anglesey Aluminium Metal, jointly owned by Rio Tinto Alcan (51 per cent) and Kaiser Aluminum (49 per cent), anticipates that it will end smelting operations at the end of September 2009 when its current power contract ex...
Hydro
will establish a research and training center in Qatar, called the Hydro Technology
Center. The center will be located at the Qatar Science & Technology Park
in Doha, and is scheduled to open this spring. An agreement between Hydro and
Qatar Science & Technology Park was signed on Wednesday.
Agozal DoubleDip®, twice-galvanized steel coil from ThyssenKrupp Steel, has been approved as a material for highway crash barriers. After five years of long-term trials by the German Federal Highway Research Institut...
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