Alcoa (NYSE:AA) today announced
it has agreed with ORKLA ASA (Orkla) to exchange their stakes in a Norwegian
smelting partnership and a Swedish extrusion joint venture in order to focus
on their respective areas of expertise and best practices. Alcoa will receive
Orkla’s 50 percent stake in Elkem Aluminum ANS while Orkla will receive
Alcoa’s 45 percent stake in the $3.7 billion SAPA extrusion profiles business.
Alcoa Automotive Wheels, a division of Alcoa Wheel and Transportation Products, announced today that it has been awarded the wheel program for the Chevy Volt extended-range electric vehicle.
“Alcoa is pleased to...
Hydro
and Advanced Metallurgical Group (AMG) have entered into an agreement to develop
new technology for the low-cost production of magnesium and silica using the
Norwegian mineral olivine as a raw material.
Qatar University has signed an agreement with Hydro
and Qatar Aluminium Company (Qatalum) to establish a faculty chair of aluminium
production at the university's College of Engineering.
Hydro Aluminium
Profiler AB has signed a new contract with ABB Motors in Vasteras,
Sweden. It involves the continued delivery of motor housings for the company's
low-voltage DC industrial motors until the end of 2010.
The discoveries, made at MSU's National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory using an isotope purification device, will help to refine theoretical models about how elements are created in the cosmos. Until now, this was beyond the technical reach of nearly all of the world's nuclear science facilities.
At first glance, a simple pair of eye glasses might seem benign to the environment – until one considers what goes into the production of frames and lenses. Réjean Samson, a professor at the Department of Chem...
hrough the controlled freezing of suspensions in water of an aluminum oxide (alumina) and the addition of a well known polymer, polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA), a team of researchers has produced ceramics that are 300 times tougher than their constituent components.
Hydro
has inaugurated a new recycling furnace at its aluminium rolled products plant
in Hamburg. The EUR 12 million investment underlines the company's mission to
create a more viable society by developing natural resources and products in
innovative and efficient ways.
The EUR 12 million investment underlines the company's mission to create a more viable society by developing natural resources and products in innovative and efficient ways.
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