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Aluminium aerosol customers traditionally have shied away from photo-realistic packaging designs because the graphics do not translate well to conventional offset printing. To overcome this limitation, Ball Aerosol Packaging is launching the highly anticipated Eyeris®, a proprietary high-definition printing technique.   For customers craving detailed graphics to bring products to life, Eyeris® printing is the solution to providing photo-realistic quality can designs without digital printing. This ground-breaking HD imagery spans 360 degrees of the can, creating premium...

Hydro has made a final build decision to invest NOK 1.4 billion at Husnes to upgrade and start-up the plant's second production line, which will double the plant's aluminium production and create 90 more jobs. Since the investment decision in December 2017, Hydro has been detailing the project towards the final build decision. "We're committing to aluminium production in Norway based on clean, renewable energy and doing so with world-class technology," says Hilde Merete Aasheim, Head of Primary Metal in Hydro. In the restart of the line, which was shut down in...

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...

Quartz Business Media and ICSOBA announce partnership at 2019 Future Aluminium Forum Quartz Business Media and the International Committee for the Study of Bauxite, Alumina & Aluminium (ICSOBA) have identified a framework for cooperation at the next Future Aluminium Forum. This framework, captured under an MOU, will encourage cooperation in order to streamline efficiency and create an environment open to innovation, ultimately to stimulate economic activities along the aluminium value chain. The main objective of ICSOBA is to promote the exchange of ideas and results of the...

Hydro and Rio Tinto have signed an agreement to end the acquisition process for Rio Tinto's Icelandic aluminium plant ISAL, including its interests in Dutch anode facility Aluchemie and Swedish aluminium fluoride plant Alufluor. In February 2018, Hydro made a binding offer to acquire Rio Tinto's Icelandic aluminium plant Rio Tinto Iceland Ltd ("ISAL"), its 53% share in Dutch anode facility Aluminium & Chemie Rotterdam B.V. ("Aluchemie"), and 50% of the shares in Swedish aluminium fluoride plant Alufluor AB ("Alufluor") for an enterprise...

A group of Aluminium Bahrain engineers have completed more than a year of on-the-job training at Emirates Global Aluminium’s sites in the United Arab Emirates, ahead of the start-up of Alba’s new Reduction Line 6 which has been built with EGA technology. Some 21 Alba staff participated in the training which took place in both Abu Dhabi and Dubai and was designed to give them experience with the newly installed technology. EGA licensed its DX+ Ultra technology to Alba in 2016 for use in the Bahraini company’s new aluminium production The deal was the first time a...

Alunorte signed two agreements representing a milestone to resume normal operations at the alumina refinery in Pará, Brazil. Alunorte has operated at 50% capacity since March. The agreements include a technical Term of Adjusted Conduct (TAC) signed between Alunorte - Alumina do Norte do Brasil S.A, Norsk Hydro do Brasil Ltda, the Ministério Público Federal (MPF), the Pará State Ministério Público (MPPA), the State Government of Pará, represented by the Secretariat of State of Environment and Sustainability (SEMAS). In addition, a...

Emirates Global Aluminium has received the first shipment of caustic soda for its under-construction Al Taweelah alumina refinery.  Caustic soda and bauxite are the two most important raw materials in alumina refining. Stocks of these materials are initially required for the carefully-planned sequential commissioning of Al Taweelah alumina refinery.   Commissioning is the process of testing and starting-up individual pieces of equipment and sections of a new plant. EGA began importing bauxite in June. EGA has also begun stockpiling hydrate, another raw material required...

STAS is pleased to announce the purchase of technologies from o.d.t. Engineering PTY. LTD finalised in April 2018.  O.d.t. Engineering is an Australian company specialised in the design and supply of casting and material handling equipment and production consumables for aluminium and magnesium casthouse. The company enjoys an enviable reputation for design innovation, efficiency and quality fabrication and is, like STAS, a family-owned company. Since the late 1980’s, STAS’s mission is to partner with its customers from the aluminium industry to help them achieve...