ALUMINIUM 2014 Blog

For the seventh time, the industry’s most innovative and creative solutions will receive the EUROPEAN ALUMINIUM AWARD this year. A total of six prizes will be awarded in the two categories “Industrial Products” and “Consumer Products”. For the first time, students and designers under 30 years of age will be awarded the “Young Designers” prize for their creative ideas. A special jury award will distinguish the best entry in terms of “Ecology, Sustainability and Energy Efficiency”.

The competition has found prominent supporters in Alcoa, Aleris, Hydro and Rio Tinto Alcan: the four big players of the industry are the main sponsors of the internationally well-known prize awarded on the initiative of the Netherlands Aluminium Centre in cooperation with EAA, GDA and trade fair organiser Reed Exhibitions Deutschland GmbH. All nominated products and projects will be on display at the fair, the presentation ceremony will be held on 14 September during the “ALUMINIUM Night” gala.

Further information: http://www.aluminium-award.eu

Four years ago already COMPOSITES EUROPE, the international trade fair for composite materials, celebrated its premiere parallel to ALUMINIUM. This year, the two fairs will complement each other even better: together, ALUMINIUM and COMPOSITES EUROPE with far more than 1,100 exhibitors form the largest platform for lightweight construction materials in Europe.

At COMPOSITES EUROPE around 300 exhibitors from 25 countries show the entire value chain of the composites industry – from primary products to semi-finished, finished and intermediate products to technologies and services. With a large number of special forums such as workshops, live demonstrations and the accompanying AVK Conference, COMPOSITES EUROPE has succeeded after only four events to become Germany’s largest B2B platform for composite materials.

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On all three days, the trade fair will present special “Aluminium Welding and Joining“, “Recycling“ and “Metal Working Forum“ theme days at its open lecture forum in Hall 6. During the three theme days, the cooperation partners German welding association DVS, the German federation of aluminium recycling VAR and the Metallbau magazine will present lectures by exhibitors on innovative solutions.

Further information: http://www.aluminium-messe.com

For the first time the German aluminium industry association GDA as the institutional patron of the ALUMINIUM 2010 trade fair will organise the accompanying conference under the motto “Aluminium – Material of the Future”. Five different sessions are planned for the three days of the fair on the application-related themes of processes, transport, automotive, surface and aluminium markets. The conference language is English.

The full programme is available online: http://www.aluminium-conference.de/program.html

ALUMINIUM 2010 offers a wide range of themes. As many as three joint stands dealing with new trade fair themes will celebrate their premiere: solar technology, piecework coating and magnesium. They complement the already established theme pavilions on the subjects of surface treatment (“World of Surface”), casting, welding and joining as well as primary production.

The Solar Pavilion specifically targets suppliers of aluminium for solar technology. The material has been accepted for a long time as a basis for substructures, poles, mounting systems or mouldings for solar panels in this sector which is of increasing interest to the industry as a sales market. Exhibitors to present their solar components include Sapa, RBB Aluminium, Kastens & Knauer and Thoni Alutec.

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The production of and demand for aluminium is again growing worldwide. After the decline during the financial and economic crisis, global production will already exceed pre-crisis levels this year. In many branches of industry the lightweight and sustainable material is the first choice.

The material’s potential has not been exhausted by far as will be demonstrated in September at ALUMINIUM 2010 in Essen. From 14 bis 16 September the world’s biggest meeting place for the industry will bring together aluminium producers, processors, providers of technologies and equipment for the production, further processing and finishing of aluminium, as well as the representatives of the application industries. „Between Innovation and Environment“ is the motto under which 890 companies from 45 countries will present themselves this year. More than half of the exhibitors come from abroad. The number of exhibitors from the Middle East, in particular, has grown this year. The organisers Reed Exhibitions and their partners GDA Gesamtverband der Aluminiumindustrie and European Aluminium Association (EAA) expect visitors from more than 100 countries.

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We welcome the new ALUMINIUM 2010 exhibitors of this week:

- Lenox Bandsaw Division
- WSW 3/4/5 Energie GmbH
- VERECO SRL
- Steinbichler Optotechnik GmbH
- Metal Américas Comércio Ltda.
- Siempelkamp
- BORAL Alüminyum Profil Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S.
- Miralu SAS

Would you like to exhibit at ALUMINIUM 2010 or you are already registered as exhibitor? You will find all information concerning the different possibilities of participation as exhibitor, the stand construction, our marketing services and further services for ALUMINIUM 2010 here.

Austria Metall AG is looking forward to presenting their products at ALUMINIUM 2010 – you, too? Just send us a note or comment here on our blog!

Austria Metall AG – AMAG for short – is based in Ranshofen, Austria and is the nation´s leading manufacturer of aluminium semis and casthouse products for the processing industry. Production locations are based in Ranshofen (casting and rolling) and Sept Iles, Quebec, Canada (smelter).

The product portfolio comprises of high-quality aluminium flat rolled products in the form of coils, sheets and plates as well as foundry alloys in the form of ingots, sows and liquid aluminium. The application range of these products extends from aircrafts, automobiles and sporting goods, buildings, machinery, packaging, lighting, decoration up to IT and Telecommunication.

Learn more about Austria Metall AG at http://www.amag.at/

We welcome the new ALUMINIUM 2010 exhibitors of this week:

- Magnesium Elektron UK
- Gemeinde Wutöschingen
- Telsonic GmbH
- TUFF TEMP CORPORATION

Would you like to exhibit at ALUMINIUM 2010 or you are already registered as exhibitor? You will find all information concerning the different possibilities of participation as exhibitor, the stand construction, our marketing services and further services for ALUMINIUM 2010 here.

Aluminium is still the material of choice when it comes to building the fuselages of modern passenger aircraft – although carbon and glass fibre-reinforced plastics are now increasingly being used.

Aluminium is still the classic lightweight material in aircraft construction, although the proportion of its use is falling. Aluminium alloys accounted for nearly 80 percent of the material used in the components of the Airbus A320 whereas the proportion in the A340 has fallen to roughly 70 percent – largely due to the increased use of fibre-reinforced composite materials. The dominance of aluminium alloy as the classic lightweight material is set to be challenged as its use drops to below 60 percent in Airbus aircraft in the future. Over 20 percent of the parts will be made from fibre-reinforced composites.

The following example shows how important weight reduction can be, especially in the aerospace industry: The Airbus A310, which is used for short-haul flights, is in the air roughly 3,000 hours per year. If its structural weight is reduced by just one percent, this results in savings of more than 600 tonnes of fuel per year per aircraft. And the savings are considerably greater in the new generation of wide-bodied aircraft such as the Airbus A380, designed for long-haul flights. The A380 itself weighs 277 tonnes, rising to 560 tonnes when fully loaded.

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