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18 September 2020

Trade show participants may enter Germany

Trade shows in Germany are characterized by their internationality: according to data collected by the German trade show association AUMA, around 60% of the 180,000 exhibitors each year come from abroad, a third of them from countries outside Europe. Of the 10 million visitors, almost 30% come from abroad. All the more important for the restart of the events is now the clarification on the part of AUMA that the entry of trade show participants from abroad is in principle also possible in times of the Corona pandemic.

15 September 2020

Assan Alüminyum on circular economy

How does Assan Alüminyum make sure it produces in a particularly sustainable way and what sustainability goals does the company pursue? Derin Akersoy, Senior Manager, Marketing and Corporate Communications, explains the initiatives in our most recent video interview.

14 September 2020

Metal markets in limbo

During the first half of 2020, COVID-19 has triggered turmoil on the metal markets. But in early September, there are signs that the worst may be over - at least in the Far East, namely China and South Korea. Japan has been partly hampered by the resignation of its long serving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. But this shouldn’t be a major setback. North America is totally different - not only because of the elections in November, but also because of the Corona death toll, still raging from Alabama to Wyoming.

10 September 2020

Heavy-lift utility drone made of alumnium to be presented at German TV show "The lion’s den“

Former Formula One driver Nico Rosberg is on the jury in the German TV show "The Lion's Den“. His portfolio company, Volocopter GmbH, has developed the "VoloDrone". This is an electrically powered cargo drone that was specially developed for transport tasks in a wide range of industrial applications. In order to be able to fulfil this demanding task, the drone is mainly made of aluminium.

01 September 2020

Kick-off-Edition: Special publication makes innovations visible

Together with the trade journals "Aluminium Praxis" and "International Aluminium Journal", the ALUMINIUM fair uses this autumn to make the innovations of the exhibitors visible.

10 August 2020

Apple improves global footprint - especially thanks to aluminium

The American technology company Apple has been able to improve its CO2 balance by 35 percent in 2019. This has been achieved through a strong focus on energy efficiency, low-carbon production and the switch to one hundred percent renewable electricity. And aluminium has also played a key role in this success.

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.