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The annual rate of U.S. primary aluminum production totaled 2,124,093 metric tons during April 2012, an increase of 0.4 percent over the March 2012 annual rate of 2,116,165 tons.
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The torch that will be carried via relay throughout the United Kingdom en route to London for the commencement of the 2012 Summer Olympics is an award-winning aluminum design.
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The aluminum industry is working with key stakeholders to improve the language of Ohio Senate Bill 294 on waste management disposal practices as they pertain to aluminum byproducts.
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The Aluminum Association has published the newest issue of its e-newsletter, 'The Briefing,' featuring articles on President Heidi Brock's attendance at the International Aluminium Institute's leadership conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the Association's most recent "media tour" promoting aluminum home furnishings.
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Aluminum Association President Heidi Brock has applauded the enactment of a Maryland law that will increase access to recycling in multifamily dwellings.
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The Curbside Value Partnership has launched an online tool, CVP Connect, providing free resources and guidance for recycling coordinators on how to develop, execute, and measure strategic education campaigns.
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Ball Corp. has developed a technology enabling the use of recycled aluminum in the manufacture of extruded aluminum aerosol cans. The technology allows lightweighting of the container without affecting package integrity.
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The annual rate of U.S. primary aluminum production totaled 2,116,165 metric tons during March 2012, two-tenths of one percent higher than the February 2012 annual rate of 2,111,770 tons, the Aluminum Association has reported.
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Johns Hopkins Hospital's new Bloomberg Children's Center incorporates aluminum panels to provide a colorful and visually arresting facade that looms above the Baltimore skyline.
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Jaguar has confirmed that it will produce an all-new sports car for 2013—the aluminum-bodied F-Type.
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Matt Aboud, Tony Farraj, and Tom Walpole have been elected to serve on the Aluminum Association's Board of Directors.
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The Association has issued addenda to both the "Yellow Sheets" () and its metric counterpart, "Tan Sheets."
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The Aluminum Association is co-sponsoring the 13th International Conference on Aluminum Alloys June 3-7, 2012 at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh—birthplace of the modern aluminum industry.
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The Aluminum Association will co-locate its fall meeting with those of the Aluminum Extruders Council and Aluminum Anodizers Council for Aluminum Week October 15-18, 2012 at the Renaissance Chicago Downtown Hotel.
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Hiball Energy's debut of its line of sparkling energy water and organic drinks in aluminum cans was prompted by cans' ability to accommodate a larger size with greater portability at a lower cost, its CEO says.
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Yamaha's Y125 Moegi weds a retro design and high-tech aluminum engineering to produce an ultra-lightweight motorbike capable of 188 miles per gallon.
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The safety benefits associated with downweighting extend to all sizes of vehicles, the Aluminum Association said in comments submitted January 27 to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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The North American aluminum industry supports continuation of the size-based "footprint" approach to regulating fuel consumption and C02 emissions, the Aluminum Association has told federal regulators.
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The national drink of Bermuda—the rum cocktail known as the Dark 'n Stormy—is coming to American shores ready to drink, in a stylish 8.4-oz. aluminum can.
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The Association has published a new addendum to the Teal Sheets ("International Alloy Designations and Chemical Composition Limits for Wrought Aluminum and Wrought Aluminum Alloys") that is now available for viewing/download.
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The Aluminum Association's Statistics Department has published the 2012 North America Aluminum Industry Plant Directory, which is now available for purchase from the online Bookstore.
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The Aluminum Association has joined the Coalition of Automotive Lightweighting Materials as a founding member to support automakers' efforts to aggressively down-weight vehicles to improve performance, fuel economy, and safety.
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The U.S. annual rate of primary aluminum production totaled 2,107,251 metric tons during January 2012, an increase of seven-tenths of one percent over the December 2011 annual rate of 2,092,474 metric tons, according to figures released by the Aluminum Association.
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The Aluminum Association has submitted comments to the EPA on its proposed primary MACT rule, addressing, among other things, residual risk findings and requirements, potline startup requirements, and polycyclic organic matter (POM) proposed MACT floor emission limit and testing requirements.
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Austal USA has completed construction of the U.S. Navy's second Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship, a 417-foot all-aluminum vessel christened 'Coronado.'
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Vehicle downweighting with aluminum offers the fastest, safest, and most cost-effective way of meeting the goals of reduced fuel consumption and lower greenhouse gas emissions, says Doug Richman, Technical Committee Chairman of the Aluminum Association’s Aluminum Transportation Group.
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Visit the Aluminum Industry Buyer's Guide, the one-stop online source for aluminum products and services.
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Chadwick Engineering Ltd., based in Kingston, Ontario, has joined the Aluminum Association as an Associate Member.
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Building facades are gaining dramatic new design possibilities thanks to the aluminum coil coating process. One example is the recently completed South Health Campus in Calgary.
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The Aluminum Association has issued its newest "Standards Action Report," which includes details on the registration of two casting alloys.
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Oberlin College's Bertram and Judith Kohl Building, a veritable "rhapsody" in aluminum composite material, has become the first LEED Gold-certified music conservatory in the U.S.
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The fifth annual Aluminum Outlook Summit, organized by HARBOR Aluminum, will be held June 11-13 at the Westin Hotel in Chicago.
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The Aluminum Association has released its updated Publications Catalog for the new year, containing the order form and price list for every title in its Bookstore.
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The Mercedes SL (stands for "sport" and "light") just got sportier and lighter with an overhauled design for the 2013 model that features an all-aluminum bodyshell.
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New commercial vehicle fuel economy standards put in place earlier this year by the EPA represent "landmark" regulation that will bring fuel-saving technologies—including downweighting with aluminum—to the "next level," said Aluminum Transportation Group Chairman Randall Scheps.
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Aluminum has the potential to save up to 3,300 pounds from a vehicle’s weight, Randall Scheps, chairman of the Aluminum Association’s Aluminum Transportation Group, told attendees of SAE International's recent High Efficiency Heavy Duty Vehicles Symposium.
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Aluminum's strength, durability, and recyclability make it a preferred material for architects who wish to design LEED-compliant buildings, Aluminum Association President Heidi Brock writes in the current issue of 'Metal Construction News.'
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The Obama administration's proposal to require automakers’ passenger car and light truck fleets to average 54.5 mpg by 2025 is "a major milestone for the auto industry, forward-thinking suppliers, and the consumers we serve," said the Aluminum Association's Aluminum Transportation Group Chairman Randall Scheps.
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'Aluminum Standards and Data Metric SI' and 'American National Standard Dimensional Tolerances for Aluminum Mill Products' are now available as instant downloads from the Aluminum Association's online bookstore.
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The Aluminum Association's Pigments and Powder Division has updated with new content its 'Recommendations for the Storage and Handling of Aluminum Powder and Paste' video, which is now available for purchase from the Association's online Bookstore.
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Alcoa has developed a new all-aluminum space frame and bus design that has reduced the weight of the new BYD Electric Bus body by 40 percent, or nearly one ton, versus a steel-bodied bus.
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The Aluminum Association today applauded the U.S. Senate for its passage, by unanimous consent, of Senate Resolution 251, "a resolution expressing support for improvement in the collection, processing, and consumption of recyclable materials throughout the United States."
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Halfway through the NFL season, the Aluminum Association’s Can Crusade has amassed 150 million media impressions and 6,000 broadcast hits.
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Scottish Spirits Imports will introduce single-grain and blended Scotch whiskey in aluminum cans beginning in December. The cans will be available in 100,000 retail stores nationwide.
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Allen Marine Inc., of Sitka, Alaska, has completed construction of the world's first aluminum floating dry dock. The fully self-contained, eco-friendly unit represents a major breakthrough in boat-lifting equipment.
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K. Alan Dick, Executive Vice-President and President of Rolled Products North America for Aleris, has been elected to the Aluminum Association’s Board of Directors.
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Alcoa is supplying tough, lightweight aluminum armor and other components for the U.S. Army’s FED ALPHA light tactical vehicle as well as its HEMTT heavy transport truck, the company has announced.
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'End Use Guide for Reporting Shipments of Semifabricated Aluminum Products' - a publication providing reporting companies with guidelines for uniform and systematic coding of aluminum product shipments - is now available from the Aluminum Association online bookstore.
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A replay of the Aluminum Association's recent webinar on the Ducker Worldwide study of aluminum usage by North American automakers is now available as a free download.
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Range Rover's 2012 Evoque will be its lightest and most fuel-efficient ever thanks in part to the first-ever production application of Novelis' new high-strength aluminum alloy Anticorodal-600 PX ("Ac-600 PX") in the vehicle's roof.
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The 2011 editions of "Tempers for Aluminum and Aluminum Alloy Products" ("Yellow Sheets") and its metric counterpart ("Tan Sheets") are now available for purchase from the Aluminum Association online bookstore.
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Constellium, a provider of advanced aluminum alloys, extrusions, and rolled products, has joined the Aluminum Association as a Producer Member.
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Overall use of aluminum in North American vehicles has reached an all-time high of 343 pounds per vehicle for the 2012 model year - up five percent from 327 pounds in 2009 - according to a new study by Ducker Worldwide.
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The Aluminum Association announced that 'Commissioner of Tailgating' Joe Cahn, and a team of Green Bay-area residents, achieved the Guinness World Record for the largest chain of aluminum cans by stringing together 66,343 cans in 24 hours – a chain that spans nearly five miles in length. Proceeds from the recycled cans will be donated to a Green Bay food pantry, Paul's Pantry.
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A benchmark auction price for titanium bulk weldables has been bumped up again, remaining above the $6 per pound level.
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Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. is forecasting a strong first quarter and 2011 as it sees business improvements in every product line except structural sections and every end market except non-residential construction.
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Metalico Inc. has hired Kenneth P. Mueller as senior vice president and chief operating officer of ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal recycling operations.
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A subsidiary of Chinese conglomerate Nanshan Group Co. Ltd. will break ground on an aluminum extrusion facility and cast house in Lafayette, Ind., later this spring, the company’s top executive told AMM.
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Aluminum shipments by North American service centers spiked to a five-month high in January, fueling expectations of a stronger year ahead for the distribution sector.
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Steel railing, grating and piling producer and installer L.B. Foster Co. is closing its CXT Inc. plant in Grand Island, Neb., now that a contract with its major customer has ended.
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A Houston pipe distributor is being sued for nearly $700,000 in damages for alledgedly failing to pay for Chinese steel casing purchased in October 2010.
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AMM’s offices will be closed Monday, Feb. 21, in observance of Presidents Day and there will be no issue dated Tuesday, Feb. 22. The New York Mercantile Exchange also will be closed Monday. The London Metal Exchange will be open, and AMM will publish the LME’s Feb. 21 prices in the Feb. 23 issue.
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Chinese steel plate producers can no longer circumvent U.S. import duties by adding a dash of boron to the mix, according to a preliminary ruling by the U.S. Commerce Department.
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After service center steel shipments and inventories rose sharply last month, industry participants and observers are analyzing whether the trend was spawned by seasonality, stocking up and selling ahead of rising prices, or real baseline demand improvement.
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Copper gained slightly in New York on Thursday as profit-taking subsided and a generally positive tone for commodities lifted the sector.
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Copper cathode spot business will remain tepid in March as fabricators continue to work off contracted material, traders said.
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Mill grade aluminum scrap buyers are increasingly nervous about tightening supply, with some blaming brokers and dealers for holding back stock.
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Severstal North America Inc. has raised its flat-rolled prices by $50 a ton ($2.50 per hundredweight) effective on all new orders received after Feb. 11.
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An oil recycler is suing a scrap metal company for $5 million, claiming that it faced enormous headaches after unknowingly picking up and refining contaminated oil.
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Silicon producer Globe Specialty Metals Inc. plans to build a 40,000-tonne-per-year silicon metal plant in Iceland, the company said Thursday.
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The steel sector might soon be faced with rapidly rising transportation costs as the trucking industry wrestles with a perfect storm of higher fuel prices, increased government regulation, and truck and driver shortages.
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Increased volumes, higher selling prices and a resurgence in steelmaking raw materials helped Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. hit a new milestone as the company earned more than $1 billion in 2010.
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U.S. steel mill shipments totaled 7,111,031 net tons in December, up 8.6 percent from 6,549,025 tons in November and 17.8 percent higher than the 6,034,538 tons shipped in December 2009, according to data from the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), Washington.
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Willbanks Metals Inc. plans to open a new retail division in about two weeks that features expanded long products cut-to-length capabilities.
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A North Dakota man faces felony theft charges after allegedly stealing $13,740 worth of stainless steel pipe from the racks of an agricultural firm, local media reported.
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The zinc market outlook continues to improve, with demand expected to build steadily in the first half of this year, Noranda Income Fund president and chief executive officer Mario Chapados said Thursday as he forecast a slight drop in output this year.
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The U.S. International Trade Commission has canceled a five-year sunset review of superalloy degassed chromium from Japan.
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Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc., which has already fended off a court attempt to eliminate a landfill tipping fee rebate that it receives in Hawaii, is now fighting the same challenge on the legislative front.
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ATI Allegheny Ludlum has advised customers it is increasing base prices for stainless cold-rolled and hot-rolled sheet and strip, tubular-quality sheet and strip, continuous mill plate and emission-control alloys by 6 percent effective with shipments starting Feb. 28.
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Secondary aluminum alloy producers have reduced inventories as high ingot prices have left an air of caution hanging over an industry that has no desire to get stuck with expensive metal if prices slip.
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RathGibson LLC is in discussions with distributors in South America aimed at boosting business the region, the company said this week.
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Silicon producer Globe Specialty Metals Inc. plans to build a 40,000-tonne-per-year silicon metal plant in Iceland, the company said Thursday.
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Welcome to The Cement Grinding Office, a new concept to support engineers and technicians working every day with a ball mill
In the cement industry, the ball mill is probably the nemesis of all staffs. Why? Everybody knows that a cement mill is a technological heresy on an energetic point of view. [...]
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National Nanotechnology Initiative’s schematic representation of knowledge/data flow in Materials Genome-type communities. Credit: NNI.
The White House held a special Materials Genome Initiative workshop this week that involved about 170 representatives of industry, academia, national labs and government, and the event served as a background for several significant new announcements related to the MGI.
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Good news for coffee drinkers: A recent study from the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study finds that coffee drinkers live longer. Credit: Wikipedia.
Recently, I told you about research indicating that tipsy people might get more benefit from the caffeine than sober imbibers will. This is useful after-hours information, but of limited day-to-day value.
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The efficiency of LED devices is limited by carbon point defects in the aluminum nitride transparency layer, which absorb useful wavelengths of light (around 4.7 eV). North Carolina State University researchers used computational methods and detailed experiments to make the discovery. Credit: Doug Irving; NC State.
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It’s not often that the life and work of someone who labors in the fields of in materials science and chemistry is profiled in a magazine like The New Yorker—better know for its commentary, criticism and cartoons than for a thoughtful discussion of catalysts and silicon coatings—so it was a little startling to see a [...]
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• Allied Glass has agreed a deal to take additional space at a location in Leeds, UK as demand for its products increases. The company recently announced that it expects 2012 sales to exceed £100 million; its performance was being driven by rising demand for spirits in emerging markets such as China, India, Russia and [...]
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Thanks for the memory: Researchers find room for more data storage in phase-change material
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Precision Castparts Corp. (PCC) of Portland,
Ore., agreed to acquire Centra Industries, a state-of-the art aerostructures
manufacturer located in Cambridge, Ontario.
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Perryman Co., a Houston, Pa.-based producer of
titanium products, completed the purchase of the Pittsburgh operations of Accellent
Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Accellent Holdings Corp. and a forging
supplier to the medical-device industry.
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Allegheny Technologies Inc. signed a long-term
sourcing agreement with GE Aviation, an operating unit of General Electric
Company, for the supply of Rene 65 Alloy.
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Accuride Corporation announced plans to expand its aluminum
wheel production capacity at its Kershaw County, S.C., plant.
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Wade and Jerry Brougher, owners of Forge USA of
Houston, Texas, recently hosted Senator John Cornyn of Texas at their forging
plant.
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Russia’s OMZ-Special Steels, which is part of the OMZ
Group, launched an upgrade of its AKK 6,000-ton forging plant.
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American Axle & Manufacturing (AAM) announced
that it has acquired full ownership of e-AAM Driveline Systems AB in Trollhättan,
Sweden.
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Metaldyne LLC of Plymouth, Mich., acquired a
forging and machining facility in the Czech Republic near Brno and close to the
borders of Austria and Slovakia.
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Materion Corporation of Mayfield Heights, Ohio,
acquired Aerospace
Metal Composites Limited (AMC) of Farnborough, England.
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Areva signed a contract with
Czech company TS Plzen for the supply of a 9,000-ton forging press and a 200-ton
manipulator for its Le Creusot manufacturing plant in Burgundy, France.
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Precision Castparts Corp. agreed to acquire RathGibson.
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Kobe Steel, Ltd. plans to increase its production capacity of titanium alloys
for the aerospace market and commercially pure titanium for general industry.
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W.T. Walker Group, the Milwaukee-based parent
company of Walker Forge Inc. and Precision Thermal Processing Inc., acquired
PMT Industries LLC of Surgoinsville, Tenn.
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Mumbai-based global textile and apparel
manufacturer Raymond Ltd. acquired Trinity India, a Pune-based producer of
metal forgings.
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The Forging Industry Association launched
its interactive job board, the Forging Career Center.
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Alcoa announced the completion and restart of
its redesigned 50,000-ton forging press at the company’s Cleveland Works.
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Germany’s Schuler Group is considering India as a sourcing hub for forged
components used in its manufacturing plants.
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Alcoa announced it is expanding its aluminum
lithium capacity and capabilities at three locations around the world to meet
growing demand in the aerospace market for its newest alloys.
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Sheffield Forgemasters signed a $4 million order
with ATI Ladish Forging to supply large castings for one of the world’s largest
counter-blow hammer presses.
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PRV Metals, a portfolio company of Denver, Colo.-based
Platte River Ventures, acquired the stock of TechSpec Inc.
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Raymond Ltd. is acquiring a majority stake in Trinity India
Ltd., a manufacturer of forged auto components.
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According to recent reports, Japan’s Sanyo
Special Steel intends to increase its rate of exported products to 30% by
volume to meet growing demand in foreign markets
by 2014.
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India’s Sanghvi Forging and Engineering Ltd. has commissioned a new plant at Vadodara, major
equipment for which is expected by February 2012
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Allegheny Technologies Inc. announced that it has signed a long-term sourcing
agreement with Goodrich Corporation for the supply of aerospace forgings used
for landing-gear components.
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Dongfeng Nissan Passenger Vehicle Company placed an order with Germany’s SMS Meer for the
supply of a wedge press with forging roll.
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A. Finkl & Sons celebrated the first heat of a new steel-forging furnace
in over 100 years on Chicago's south side.
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SIFCO Industries Inc. of Cleveland, Ohio, acquired the business and related
assets of GEL industries Inc., doing business as Quality Aluminum Forge (QAF), an
aerospace component supplier located in Orange, Calif.
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The joint venture between French power company Alstom and India’s Bharat Forge
reported by FORGE in December 2009 seems to be on track.
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German press manufacturer Siempelkamp received
an order for a 20,000-ton closed-die forging press from Russia’s OAO
Electrostal.
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India’s Suzlon Energy reportedly won $40.4 million in orders for its Seforge unit to supply
forged and cast parts used in wind-turbine designs.
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ABP supplying channel-type furnaces for German iron producers
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Dust exposure, other violations at Fall River Foundry discovered via National Emphasis Program
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Ipsen will install a new 2-bar TurboTreater®
at ACT Independent Turbo Services’ facility in Houston, Texas.
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Ascon Tecnologic Inc. of Batavia, Ill.,
completed a major heat-treat retrofit project of eight carburizing furnaces, 10
temper furnaces and two cryogenic freezers at a Chicago-based aerospace manufacturer’s
facility.
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Solar Manufacturing received an order from a
major aircraft manufacturer for a large vacuum carburizing furnace.
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ArcelorMittal announced the commissioning of a
$60 million state-of-the-art heat-treat line at its 160-inch plate facility in
Burns Harbor, Ind.
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Lucifer Furnaces installed a high-temperature furnace
at ETREMA Products’ facility in Ames, Iowa.
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Eclipse Inc. opened a newly constructed facility in India
that will replace the company’s former operation in Pune, India.
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Gerdau will invest $50 million to replace the
continuous caster at its St. Paul, Minn., mill.
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SECO/WARWICK Corp. received an order from a
global manufacturer for two CaseMaster Evolution® vacuum carburizing
furnaces.
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AFC-Holcroft received an
order from Trutec Industries Inc. in Springfield, Ohio, for a universal batch integral-quench (UBQ) furnace.
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