The VHE collar forming machine is fully automatic. The machine has a fast throughput and may be easily accommodated in existing rodding plants. The machine is able to handle card and aluminium, loaded as a coil and automatically fed, cut to length, then formed into a collar around the rod stub and securely closed.
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Alcoa has developed new aluminum-based solutions that enable aerospace industry to produce ultra-lightweight, short-range airplanes at lower cost and minimum production risk when compared to composite-intensive planes.
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The all-aluminium MPE absorber project, which was a joint entry by Hydro and Savo-Solar, won as best innovation in the category for solar thermal technology. The award was presented on the opening day of Intersolar Europe 2011, the world's largest trade fair for solar technologies.
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Hydro will attend GIFA 2011, the foremost international trade fair of the shape-casting industry in Düsseldorf from June 28 to July 2, as a major supplier of primary aluminium foundry alloys.
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The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) is accepting abstract submission on or before July 15, 2011 for its symposia to be conducted during its 141st Annual Meeting & Exhibition. The event is scheduled from 11 to 15 March, 2012 at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida.
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The Powerhouse alliance, consisting of developers Entra Eiendom, construction group Skanska, architects Snøhetta, environmental group ZERO and aluminium company Hydro will build Norway’s first – and the world’s northern-most – energy-positive commercial building, in Trondheim.
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At the MD&M; East conference, Katahdin Industries’ subsidiary, Duralectra-CHN (D-CHN), will display the MICRALOX microcrystalline anodic coating. D-CHN’s President, Timothy P. Cabot, will deliver a presentation on the patent pending coating and science of the anodic coating.
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First samples of aluminum have been produced by Exploration Orbite from Smelter Grade Alumina (SGA).
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By Cameron Chai
Controlled tests have been successfully performed on Bourque Industries’ Kryron aluminum alloy to determine the ballistic protection ability and battle-worthiness of the material.
Kryron metal super a...
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Measurements of the energy performance at Hydro’s aluminium building systems test center in Bellenberg, Germany, show that the building is generating 80 percent more electricity over the course of a year than it needs for its own consumption.
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