Return to Press Releases From Ashes to Metals - Recycling from Waste-to-Energy bottom ashes contributes to a more “resource efficient” Europe The first joint seminar From Ashes to Metals organized by the Confederation of European Waste-to-Energy Plants (CEWEP) and the Packaging Group of the European Aluminium Association (EAA) was very successful. The seminar gathered a […]

Return to Press Releases Aluminium Beverage Can Recycling Makes Good Progress in Serbia On the occasion of the EAA Packaging Group annual recycling seminar organised this year in Belgrade in close cooperation with the Serbian Recan Fund, the promising beverage can recycling rates in Central & Eastern Europe were confirmed. With Poland on top (66%), […]

Return to Press Releases Aluminium industry committed to resource efficiency Brussels, 20 September 2011: The European Aluminium Association (EAA) welcomes the European Commission‘s Resource Efficiency Road Map and highlights the properties of aluminium that can significantly contribute to achieve its objectives, namely endless recyclability, life-cycle perspective, and efficiency in the use phase. “The aluminium industry […]

Materials in Car Body Engineering 2011 On 11 and 12 May, the annual Automotive Circle International conference on “Materials in Car Body Engineering”, also known as the World Automotive Materials Meeting, WAMM, gathers an international audience of automotive engineers from OEM and important system suppliers in Bad Nauheim near Frankfurt/Germany, to discuss the state-of-the-art and […]

Car body design with aluminium – future developments Lightweight car design will also remain an important task in future. Lightweighting is not only an efficient way to reduce the fuel consumption, and thus the CO2 emissions of conventionally powered vehicles, it is even more important for vehicles with electric and hybrid powertrains. At the recent […]

Forged Aluminium Wheels Selected for Ferrari 458 Italia Alcoa’s Auto Wheels business recently announced that it had been selected to supply lightweight forged aluminium wheels for the new and critically acclaimed Ferrari 458 Italia. The use of forged aluminium wheel technology pioneered ensures that the front wheel weighs just 10.3kg, while the rear wheel weighs […]

Aluminium fenders for the new BMW 5 series Aleris Aluminum Duffel BVBA manufactures the material used for the fenders of the new 5 series BMW: EN AW-6016-Fo Ti/Zr, a high-quality aluminium alloy that has been optimised for outer panels of modern automobiles. Referred to as SUPERLITE® 200, this material perfectly combines two features demanded by […]

Ultra lightweight aluminium rear subframe for Porsche Panamera Lightweight car sub-frame for safety functional application with high requirements in terms of strength and stiffness. Cast as one piece in hollow design using only one sand core. Measuring 1200 by 710 by 335 mm, and with a wall thickness down to 3.5 mm, it expands the […]

Spectacular formability improvement of High Strength 7xxx alloys Cold Stamping of parts with a complex shape is not possible with classic 7xxx alloys in T4, T6 and T7x tempers. Such parts can, however, be stamped successfully by bringing the material into the fresh W-temper condition, prior to the cold stamping. W-temper is the condition of […]

Special alloys for special processes AMAG TopForm® SPF is a serial production material that has been optimized for the superplastic forming process and offers unrivalled forming speed at temperatures within the 450-500°C range. This means that considerably more complex geometries can be achieved than are possible with conventional forming. This is an AlMgMn alloy, which […]