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The Aluminium Federation (ALFED), the trade body of the UK’s aluminium sector, has announced the appointment of a new President. Giles Ashmead, managing director of Powdertech (Corby) Ltd, was previously Vice-President of the Aluminium Federation, and succeeds Adrian Platt. Powdertech is one of the UK’s leading metal finishing companies, focusing on the construction, automotive and rail sectors. The company has been involved in many headline construction projects such as the Shard, the ‘Cheesegrater’ and St Pancras Station, and coats components for JLR and...

The European Aluminium Foil Association (EAFA) has upgraded its website to improve navigation and give it a contemporary look and feel. It takes into account the greatly enhanced content, which has been added over the last six years and aims to help users find the answers they seek quickly and easily.   The main aim is to provide information in a far more attractive and visual way, leading quickly to the content required. But the Association wishes to retain all the existing popular elements, such as market information, the latest news on sustainability and its very dynamic...

On Wednesday, May 3 2017, China Trade Task Force (CTTF), a multinational campaign group, visited London to rally transnational support to call for an end to Chinese illegal aluminium subsidies that are leading to job losses across Europe and the United States. CTTF is urging more European and UK stakeholders to join the fight and are calling on the European Union and the UK government to press the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to take urgent and decisive action. Since China’s entry to the WTO, the number of primary aluminium smelters in the EU has declined by over 38% and...

ALRO SA, part of Vimetco NV has contracted Danieli for the supply of a new aluminium plate stretcher and major cold rolling mill modernisation for its plant located Slatina, Romania. The new 18MN plate stretcher will process very thin aluminium plates with high surface quality of alloys series 1xxx to 7xxx used for aerospace, marine, defence and commercial transportation applications. The modernisation will allow ALRO cold mill #2 to improve sheet gauge and flatness tolerances, increase productivity, improve strip dryness and mill reliability. New filtering and fume treatment...

Arconic has announced that Eric Roegner, Chief Operating Officer of Investment Castings, Arconic Titanium and Engineered Products and President of Arconic Defense, has been named President of Arconic Global Rolled Products (GRP), effective immediately.  Roegner continues as President of Arconic Defense. He succeeds Kay Meggers who is leaving Arconic effective June 2 to become a faculty member at the Gordon Ford College of Business at Western Kentucky University.

UC Rusal has announced the launch of a new digestion train at the Urals Aluminium Smelter (UAZ). The total amount of investment in the project exceeded 1.1 billion rubles.   Upon commissioning the new digestion train that consists of 82 units, the refinery will expand alumina production by 130 thousand tonnes per year. Total annual output of UAZ will reach 900 thousand tonnes of alumina. New equipment will increase the safety and energy efficiency of the production process resulting in cost reductions of alumina.   The construction of the new digestion train lasted two...

Braidy Industries Inc. to spend $1.3 billion to build the highest quality, lowest cost auto body sheet and aerospace plate aluminium rolling mill in the United States. The Braidy rolling mill seeks to become the nation’s low cost producer of high quality auto body sheet aluminium, plate and ultra-high strength alloys for the Aerospace industry. The mill will open with capacity of 370,000 tons per annum, producing series 5000, 6000, and 7000 aluminium sheet and plate products. Braidy is also exploring new scientific nano-crystaline technical advances capable of improving...