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November/December 2011
Welcome to the November/December 2011 issue of AIT.
Once again, we feature an award winning paper, this time from Rio Tinto Alcan's Nick Parson, Marc Lebleu and Frederic Savard. Their paper on acid etch as an anodizing pre-treatment won the Robert L Kersman Award for Best Paper at the 2010 International Anodizing Conference, held in Montreal Canada.
Other Surface Treatment papers includes Judy Runge and Sanford Process Corporation's Mike Sung discussing a technology for corrosion protection.
Heat Treatment articles are supplied by South Africa's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, and Morgan Thermal Ceramics. Other articles include a report on the Aluminium in Automotive conference orgainsed by Alfed and papers from Dubal and LTB.
Cover image supplied by Buss Chemtech.
NEWS
UPDATES
9 USA – End of an era at the Aluminum Association as president retires
10 RUSSIA – Focus on consumer industry
12 ALFED – Key issues aired at Parliamentary meetings in London
PRIMARY
13 Reducing emissions at fume treatment plants
HEAT TREATMENT
16 Heat treatment of casting alloys
20 Monolithic materials to line furnaces
SURFACE TREATMENT
23 A technology for corrosion protection
27 Acid etch as anodizing pretreatment
30 Green solution to profile etching
AUTOMOTIVE
31 Aluminium in Automotive conference
34 Stadco’s return to output for automotive pressings
PRIMARY
38 DX + technology set for Emal use
39 Extending equipment life at alumina refinery
40 Krasnoyarsk congress a success
Website news from this issue
- Recycling seminar a success
- Vietnam refinery to start production in November?
- Novelis to open Shanghai office
- Rusal to build Taishet staff housing
- Power shortage disrupts Chinese smelters
- Alcoa Australia services contract
- Aluminum Association changes leadership
- Aluminum Association publishes sustainability report
- Novelis selected as Range Rover supplier
- Alcoa in Chinese agreement
- Alcoa in $300M Davenport plant expansion
- UC Rusal buys Alpart
- Alucast in North America agreement
- China to keep yearly alumina contracts?
- Constellium joins Aluminum Association
- Sapa to buy Chinese extrusion plant
- Qatalum at full production
- Hindalco plans $5bn expansion
- Vehicles will continue to be lighter
- UK automotive in production boost
- Rexam to open Finnish can plant
- Chinese production reaches high in August
- Constellium in €28M revamp
- VHE secures ISAL contract
- Emal breaks ground on Phase 2
- Rio Tinto Alcan awards tapping contract to HMR
- Nalco to invest $4bn in Indonesia
- Vedanta H1 production increases
- Aluminium construction requirements to change
- Mathematical models for Process Engineers
- Orbite ramps up alumina production
- Ethiopian extrusion plant
- Alcoa in profit drop
- Rio Tinto to sell aluminium assets
- UC Rusal to redesign VAS smelter
- Ma’aden and Alcoa seal financing deals
- Alba sales jump 8.4% in Q3 2011
- Rusal signs Gas Treatment Centre contract
- Constellium and Sumitomo partnership
- Aluminum Association appointment
- Aluminum Association appoints director
- Rusal in vehicle contract
- Century reports loss
- Aleris plans Chinese coil and sheet site
- Constellium to help develop eco efficient aircraft
- Vietnam aluminium plan
- Alcoa in Angolan smelter plan
- China’s output continues to increase
- UC Rusal completes foil modernisation plan
- Alouette expansion approved
- Mubadala JV to help Al smelters
- Chinese alloy production line
- Kurri aluminium cuts jobs
- Aluminium India opens this week
- Emal employees in beach clean-up
- Alcoa approves Quebec plan
- Alufoil production remains steady
- Aluar cuts production capacity
- Aluminum Association ‘Aluminum Highlights’ for the week ending Friday, November 4.
- Novelis in $32m Brazilian expansion
- Ma’aden awards power cable contract
- Australian carbon tax fears
- Turkish continuous homogenizing plant
- Arabal: RTA to focus on Tier 1 businesses
- Oman has potential to be recycling centre
- Arabal 2011: IAI launches packaging website
- Constellium signs can recycling deal
- Rio Tinto Alcan to close Lynemouth UK smelter
- Arabal: Middle East could become production hub
- Continuous homogenizing plant in Italy
- Alfed: Government rhetoric needs to become reality