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Novelis Inc. announced a collaboration with the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) to establish the Novelis Innovation Hub at Georgia Tech. The company will invest $2.5 million to initiate research, faculty, student and educational program support. The collaboration will promote aluminum research, innovative business models and related educational endeavors at Georgia Tech and will serve as a cross-functional hub connecting Novelis’ technical and business innovators with Georgia Tech’s students and faculty.
This paper discusses the IVD process advantages when it comes to mitigating surface imperfections and providing corrosion and dissimilar metal protection, as well as the AM requirements for vacuum heat treatment processes.
Braidy Industries Inc. acquired NanoAl, a leader in the science of nanocrystalline strengthening technology applied to sheet aluminum, as a third wholly owned subsidiary. NanoAl was founded out of the Department of Materials Science at Northwestern University to commercialize the science of developing stronger aluminum alloys through control of key structural features at the nanoscale. Braidy believes the technology has the potential to significantly enhance the specific strength of aluminum to be produced by its Braidy Atlas mill in Ashland, Ky.
This paper discusses the IVD process advantages when it comes to mitigating surface imperfections and providing corrosion and dissimilar metal protection, as well as the AM requirements for vacuum heat treatment processes.
Alcoa and Rio Tinto announced a process to make aluminum that produces oxygen and eliminates all direct greenhouse-gas emissions from the traditional smelting process. To advance larger-scale development and commercialization of the new process, the companies are forming Elysis. The joint venture, which will be headquartered in Montreal with a research facility in Quebec’s Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region, will develop and license the technology so it can be used to retrofit existing smelters or build new facilities.
In June 2017 this column addressed problems with trade barriers, especially tariffs that are "manipulated favoritism" and result in forms of protectionism, often with unintended consequences.
Wisconsin Oven Corp. shipped two electrically heated horizontal quench systems to an aluminum manufacturer. The systems are designed for the solution treatment of aluminum. Each system is designed to heat 1,000 pounds of aluminum to a 950°F operating temperature. Once the loads are heated to the operating temperature, they will soak at temperature and then be rapidly lowered into the quench tank in less than 10 seconds from the time the door starts to open until the load is fully submerged.
When heat treating aluminum and aluminum alloys, it is important to understand the challenges we face and why absolute control of process and equipment variability is so very critical.
When I look over the news of the day in the nonferrous segment, three things stand out: good times, advancements and illegal activity. Let's look at some examples of each.
