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10 August 2020

Scientists at TU Dresden develop self-cleaning aluminium surface

For several years, scientists at TU Dresden and the Fraunhofer IWS have been developing functionalized surfaces with laser-based manufacturing processes. Now they have developed a periodic surface structure that is not only water and ice repellent, but also removes dirt particles exclusively by rolling drops. In doing so, they focused particularly on the material aluminium.

31 July 2020

Green car boom drives aluminium demand

The Coronavirus pandemic has brought oil prices sharply down, no one would have predicted that oil prices would even dip briefly into negativ territory. Due to the lockdown in wide parts of the world, car sales fell in the first six month of this year in China and the US by a quarter, in Europe car sales even dropped 38 per cent. But whilst nobody knows, how long the deadly pandemic drags on, especially in the US and some countries in South America like Brazil, it looks like the worst may be over in other parts of the world. With lockdowns slowly lifted, people start to move around again. And since they have to wear face masks in public transport on busses, trains and in airplanes they very much prefer their own cars.

13 July 2020

Current situation in the automotive industry: Interview with Patrik Ragnarsson

What is the current situation in the automotive industry and will the COVID-19 pandemic and the prolonged lockdown accelerate or set back the transformation in the automotive sector? Patrik Ragnarsson, Senior Automotive & Transport Manager at European Aluminium, answeres these and many more questions in the video interview.

13 July 2020

Corona and its effects on the aluminium industry in Germany

What effects did the lockdown have on the aluminium industry in Germany? How is the current situation developing? And is the corona crisis a brake block or accelerator of the transformation processes in which the industry was already engaged before the outbreak of the pandemic? The answers are provided by Marius Baader, Executive Member of the Executive Board of Gesamtverband der Aluminiumindustrie e. V. (GDA), in the ALUMINIUM interview.

07 July 2020

First choice - green aluminium

Climate change and environmental protection are also becoming a challenge for the metal trade. A new LME trading platform could help to determine, if consumers were willing to pay a premium for low-carbon aluminium.

01 July 2020

Postponed: ALUMINIUM World Trade Fair to be held from 18 to 20 May 2021

ALUMINIUM, the world's leading trade fair for the aluminium industry, which was to take place in Düsseldorf from 6 to 8 October, has been postponed to 18 to 20 May 2021 due to the serious consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic. The accompanying ALUMINIUM Conference will also be postponed into the next year.