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Aktuelles / NeWs IN BRIef fettfreier Gleitlack mit eingebautem korrosionsschutz Materialforscher am Leibniz-Institut für Neue Materialien (INM) haben einen Gleitlack entwickelt, der zwei Eigenschaften kombiniert: Er hat ähnliche Schmiereigenschaften, wie man sie von Fetten oder Ölen kennt, und schützt zusätzlich vor Korrosion. Das neue Material eignet sich als Beschichtung für Metalle wie Stahl, Aluminium oder Magnesium. Maschinenteile wie Zahnräder, Gewinde oder Kurbeln verschleißen, wenn ihre metallischen Oberflächen aufeinander reiben. Dagegen helfen Schmierstoffe oder Funktionsöle. Sie verbinden sich mit Schmutz, Abrieb und Staub und verklumpen oder verharzen nach einiger Zeit. Dann müssen Maschinenteile aufwändig gereinigt und nachgefettet werden – häufigere Wartungen, höherer Ressourcenverbrauch, umweltbelastende Abfälle oder zeitweise Maschinenausfälle sind die Folgen. Die Forscher am INM entwickelten jetzt einen Gleitlack, der fettfrei und zusätzlich vor Korrosion schützt. Das Besondere an dem Gleitlack ist seine Zusammensetzung und Struktur. Carsten Becker-Willinger, Leiter des Programmbereichs Nanomere, erklärt: „Wir haben plättchenförmige Festkörperschmierstoffe und plättchenförmige Teilchen in ein Bindemittel eingebettet. Beim Auftragen dieses Gemisches auf eine Oberfläche entsteht ein wohlgeordnetes Gefüge, in dem sich diese verschiedenen Partikel dachziegelartig anordnen.“ So bilde sich zwischen Gleitlack und Gegenkörper ein Transferfilm aus, durch den Oberflächen reibungsarm aufeinander gleiten. „Erst durch das besondere Mischungsverhältnis hat unser Komposit einen sehr niedrigen Reibungskoeffizienten. Würden wir nur den Festkörperschmierstoff verwenden, wäre der Reibungskoeffizient deutlich höher“, so der Chemiker. Die Dachziegelstruktur sorgt nicht nur für reibungsarmes Gleiten, sondern wirkt wie eine Barriere. Damit verhindert das Material zusätzlich das Vordringen von Feuchtigkeit oder Salzen auf Metalloberflächen. So schützt es zusätzlich vor Korrosion. Im neutralen Salzsprühtest zeigt das Komposit auf niedrig legiertem Stahl eine Korrosionsbeständigkeit von über 1.000 Stunden. Der Gleitlack lässt sich mit den klassischen nasschemischen Verfahren aufbringen, zum Beispiel durch Sprühen oder Tauchen. Durch einfaches thermisches Aushärten bildet sich die Dachziegelstruktur ohne weiteres Zutun in Selbstorganisation aus. Alcoa surprises with strong Q3 performance Aluminium giant Alcoa has recently reported a sequential and year-over-year increase in third quarter profit for 2013 driven by strong operating performance and productivity gains, despite lower metal prices. Net income was USD24m. Excluding the impact of special items, net income was USD120m. Results were led by continued strength in Engineered Products and Solutions and Global Rolled Products, despite traditional third quarter weakness. Global Primary Products overcame falling metal prices and lower premiums to deliver significant performance improvement through productivity gains. The company reported Q3 2013 revenues of USD5.8bn, steady compared with the previous quarter and the year ago period, despite a 3% sequential and 7% y-o-y decline in the LME cash price of aluminium. “Our repositioning is on the right path,” stressed Klaus Kleinfeld, Alcoa chairman and chief executive. “We continued to build our value-add businesses, capturing demand for innovative material solutions across multiple markets. Our commodity business delivered better performance in a tougher market environment, and we continued to reshape the portfolio to lower the cost base. Across the board, productivity was exceptional – achieving our full year target in the first nine months.” Alcoa reaffirms its 7% growth forecast for global aluminium demand in 2013, with an impressing 9-10% plus in the aerospace market. The automotive market is expected to grow by 1-4%, packaging by 1-2% and commercial building and construction by 4-5%. In the heavy truck market, Alcoa has raised its 2013 growth expectation to 5-9% (previously 3-8%), on improvements in the European market and a stronger Chinese market. Investment projects well underway: Alcoa made progress on its capital investments to capture value-added growth opportunities, and continued to take definitive actions in Q3 2013 to improve its position on the alu- Aluminium coil storage at Alcoa‘s Tennessee plant minium cost curve. The USD300m automotive expansion of the Davenport plant in Iowa is set to be completed by the end of 2013 with the commissioning process currently underway. Construction also began on the USD275m automotive expansion at Alcoa’s rolling mill in Tennessee. Both will support the growing demand for aluminium sheet for automotive production. Aluminium sheet per vehicle is expected to grow 10-fold by 2025 in North America alone. The Ma’aden-Alcoa joint venture project that will create one of the world’s lowestcost integrated aluminium facilities is on time and on budget. The smelter is 99% complete and full operating capacity of 740,000 tonnes a year is expected in 2014. This smelter will contribute an estimated two percentage points toward the company’s 2015 goal of lowering its position on the world aluminium production cost curve by 10 percentage points overall. The joint venture’s 380,000m tpy integrated rolling mill is 88% complete. First hot coil for the rolling mill is anticipated in Q4 this year. Construction of the alumina refinery and bauxite mine are also on schedule. First alumina out of the facility and bauxite out of the mine are expected in 2014. To further improve competitiveness, Alcoa continues to review its global smelting capacity and take action on higher-cost plants and plants with long-term risk due to factors such as energy costs or regulatory uncertainties. In the first five months since announcing the 460,000-tonne capacity review, Alcoa has closed or curtailed 274,000 tonnes, equal to 60% of the capacity under review. Most recent actions include the permanent closure of a potline representing 41,000 tonnes at the Massena East plant in New York and the temporary curtailment of 128,000 tonnes of capacity in Brazil. Alcoa now has 16%, or 651,000 tonnes, of smelting capacity offline. © Alcoa ALUMINIUM · 11/2013

NeW s IN B RIef senaat and Ducab in joint Abu Dhabi aluminium rod venture Kizad Master Plan Senaat, an Abu Dhabi state-owned industrial holding company, and power cable maker Ducab are linking up to open a Dh220 million (USD60m) aluminium rod mill in Abu Dhabi, providing a boost to the emirate’s strategy to develop a downstream industrial heartland. Based in the Khalifa Industrial Zone (Kizad), the plant will produce aluminium alloy rods and wires for use in cable-making and other manufacturing as well as bare overhead conductors, mainly for use in the utility industry. “This new joint venture with Ducab is a testament to our ability to successfully create, optimise and champion industrial assets in Abu Dhabi and the UAE, creating value and further expanding the country’s industrial capabilities,” said Suhail bin Athaeeth, the chief executive of Senaat. It jointly owns Dubaibased Ducab with Investment Corporation of Dubai, a sovereign wealth fund owned by the Dubai Government. Known as Ducab Aluminium, the venture will start plant construction in the first quarter of next year, ready for opening in early 2016. The facility aims to reach a capacity of 50,000 tonnes a year. The mill will be the latest project within Kizad’s Hot Metal Road, a special route for transporting liquid molten aluminium straight away from the Emirates Aluminium (Emal) smelter to processing industries spanning extrusion to casting. The process cuts the cost involved in re-melting the metal. Officials see the linking up of metal producers with manufacturers further down the industrial value chain as vital to broadening the depth of Abu Dhabi’s non-oil economy and adding value to its exports. The mill will not be the first aluminium rod manufacturer in the region. Producers in Bahrain and Oman both already make such products. Ducab Aluminium will draw upon Ducab’s sales network, at first targeting markets in the GCC and Mena regions. European and Indian subcontinent markets will be tapped later. Overhead conductors will be sold to Ducab’s existing customers of underground cables. Rods will be used as material in Ducab’s Jebel Ali facility in Dubai for making cables. Headquartered in Jebel Ali, the company has been making cables since 1979. It already has a presence in Abu Dhabi through the operation of a copper rod mill in Mussafah. The venture is also the latest example of Dubai and Abu Dhabi companies working together. In June, a merger was announced between Emal and Dubai Aluminium (Dubal), to create a new larger aluminium producer, Emirates Global Aluminium. Sennat, along with Gulf Extrusions Co. (LLC), is also parent company of Talex, the Taweelah Aluminium Extrusion Company, which is the first aluminium downstream project to be established in Kizad. Talex is being built on a 200,000 m 2 site adjacent to Emal, and will be the first project on the Hot Metal Road to receive liquid metal from the aluminium smelter. The manufacturing capacity will be 50,000 tonnes a year. © Kizad Novelis completes usD400m expansion of aluminium rolling mills in korea Novelis has completed its USD400 million investment programme in South Korea. The expansion of its Yeongju and Ulsan plants increases the company’s production capacity in the region by more than 50% to around 1 million tpy of aluminium sheet. The expansion is a key element in Novelis’s global growth strategy. Phil Martens, president and chief executive of Novelis, pointed out: “Asia is the largest and fastest growing region in the world for aluminium, and this expansion allows us to maintain our leadership in this dynamic region across key markets such as beverage cans, consumer electronics and automobiles.” Novelis began the expansion of its aluminium rolling and recycling facilities in 2011 to meet the rising demand for flat rolled aluminium in high value-added products in the Asian market. The expansion includes a hot and cold rolling mill, pusher furnace, high-speed slitter and annealing furnaces, in addition to the previously commissioned fully-integrated recycling centre at Yeongju. Shashi Maudgal, senior vice-president and president, Novelis Asia, commented: “We can now supply coils to our new automotive sheet finishing plant in Changzhou, China, which is expected to commence production in mid-2014. Furthermore, we can now pursue new business opportunities in high value-added markets like consumer electronics where a high-quality surface finish is required.” The demand for aluminium in the Asian automotive market is expected to exceed the 25% compound annual growth rate projected globally over the next five years, as more car manufacturers move to build lighter, more fuel-efficient vehicles. The company’s expansion in South Korea will help it meet this rapidly growing market. Novelis opened a new aluminium recycling and casting centre at its Yeongju facility in October 2012. This operation is the largest aluminium beverage can recycling centre in Asia, with the capacity to produce 265,000 tonnes of sheet ingot. The Yeongju Centre is one of a series of recycling and casting expansion projects launched by Novelis over the past two years to increase its recycling and casting capacity to 2.1 million tpy globally by 2015. Novelis has a regional headquarters office in Seoul, operates four plants in South Korea, Malaysia and Vietnam and will commission its new Chinese facility in 2014. Currently, the group employs around 1,800 people in the region, including 200 new staff added as part of this expansion. ALUMINIUM · 11/2013

Aktuelles / NeWs IN BRIef<br />

fettfreier Gleitlack mit eingebautem<br />

korrosionsschutz<br />

Materialforscher am Leibniz-Institut für Neue<br />

Materialien (INM) haben einen Gleitlack entwickelt,<br />

<strong>de</strong>r zwei Eigenschaften kombiniert: Er<br />

hat ähnliche Schmiereigenschaften, wie man<br />

sie von Fetten o<strong>de</strong>r Ölen kennt, und schützt<br />

zusätzlich vor Korrosion. Das neue Material<br />

eignet sich als Beschichtung für Metalle wie<br />

Stahl, <strong>Alu</strong>minium o<strong>de</strong>r Magnesium.<br />

Maschinenteile wie Zahnrä<strong>de</strong>r, Gewin<strong>de</strong><br />

o<strong>de</strong>r Kurbeln verschleißen, wenn ihre metallischen<br />

Oberflächen aufeinan<strong>de</strong>r reiben. Dagegen<br />

helfen Schmierstoffe o<strong>de</strong>r Funktionsöle.<br />

Sie verbin<strong>de</strong>n sich mit Schmutz, Abrieb und<br />

Staub und verklumpen o<strong>de</strong>r verharzen nach<br />

einiger Zeit. Dann müssen Maschinenteile aufwändig<br />

gereinigt und nachgefettet wer<strong>de</strong>n –<br />

häufigere Wartungen, höherer Ressourcenverbrauch,<br />

umweltbelasten<strong>de</strong> Abfälle o<strong>de</strong>r<br />

zeitweise Maschinenausfälle sind die Folgen.<br />

Die Forscher am INM entwickelten jetzt einen<br />

Gleitlack, <strong>de</strong>r fettfrei und zusätzlich vor Korrosion<br />

schützt.<br />

Das Beson<strong>de</strong>re an <strong>de</strong>m Gleitlack ist seine<br />

Zusammensetzung und Struktur. Carsten<br />

Becker-Willinger, Leiter <strong>de</strong>s Programmbereichs<br />

Nanomere, erklärt: „Wir haben plättchenförmige<br />

Festkörperschmierstoffe und<br />

plättchenförmige Teilchen in ein Bin<strong>de</strong>mittel<br />

eingebettet. Beim Auftragen dieses Gemisches<br />

auf eine Oberfläche entsteht ein wohlgeordnetes<br />

Gefüge, in <strong>de</strong>m sich diese verschie<strong>de</strong>nen<br />

Partikel dachziegelartig anordnen.“ So bil<strong>de</strong><br />

sich zwischen Gleitlack und Gegenkörper<br />

ein Transferfilm aus, durch <strong>de</strong>n Oberflächen<br />

reibungsarm aufeinan<strong>de</strong>r gleiten. „Erst durch<br />

das beson<strong>de</strong>re Mischungsverhältnis hat unser<br />

Komposit einen sehr niedrigen Reibungskoeffizienten.<br />

Wür<strong>de</strong>n wir nur <strong>de</strong>n Festkörperschmierstoff<br />

verwen<strong>de</strong>n, wäre <strong>de</strong>r Reibungskoeffizient<br />

<strong>de</strong>utlich höher“, so <strong>de</strong>r Chemiker.<br />

Die Dachziegelstruktur sorgt nicht nur für<br />

reibungsarmes Gleiten, son<strong>de</strong>rn wirkt wie<br />

eine Barriere. Damit verhin<strong>de</strong>rt das Material<br />

zusätzlich das Vordringen von Feuchtigkeit<br />

o<strong>de</strong>r Salzen auf Metalloberflächen. So schützt<br />

es zusätzlich vor Korrosion. Im neutralen<br />

Salzsprühtest zeigt das Komposit auf niedrig<br />

legiertem Stahl eine Korrosionsbeständigkeit<br />

von über 1.000 Stun<strong>de</strong>n.<br />

Der Gleitlack lässt sich mit <strong>de</strong>n klassischen<br />

nasschemischen Verfahren aufbringen, zum<br />

Beispiel durch Sprühen o<strong>de</strong>r Tauchen. Durch<br />

einfaches thermisches Aushärten bil<strong>de</strong>t sich<br />

die Dachziegelstruktur ohne weiteres Zutun in<br />

Selbstorganisation aus.<br />

Alcoa surprises with strong Q3 performance<br />

<strong>Alu</strong>minium giant Alcoa has recently reported<br />

a sequential and year-over-year increase in<br />

third quarter profit for 2013 driven by strong<br />

operating performance and productivity gains,<br />

<strong>de</strong>spite lower metal prices. Net income was<br />

USD24m. Excluding the impact of special<br />

items, net income was USD120m. Results<br />

were led by continued strength in Engineered<br />

Products and Solutions and Global Rolled<br />

Products, <strong>de</strong>spite traditional third quarter<br />

weakness. Global Primary Products overcame<br />

falling metal prices and lower premiums to<br />

<strong>de</strong>liver significant performance improvement<br />

through productivity gains. The company<br />

reported Q3 2013 revenues of USD5.8bn,<br />

steady compared with the previous quarter<br />

and the year ago period, <strong>de</strong>spite a 3% sequential<br />

and 7% y-o-y <strong>de</strong>cline in the LME cash<br />

price of aluminium.<br />

“Our repositioning is on the right path,”<br />

stressed Klaus Kleinfeld, Alcoa chairman and<br />

chief executive. “We continued to build our<br />

value-add businesses, capturing <strong>de</strong>mand for<br />

innovative material<br />

solutions<br />

across multiple<br />

markets. Our<br />

commodity<br />

business <strong>de</strong>livered<br />

better<br />

performance<br />

in a tougher<br />

market environment,<br />

and<br />

we continued<br />

to reshape the<br />

portfolio to<br />

lower the cost<br />

base. Across<br />

the board, productivity was exceptional –<br />

achieving our full year target in the first nine<br />

months.”<br />

Alcoa reaffirms its 7% growth forecast<br />

for global aluminium <strong>de</strong>mand in 2013, with<br />

an impressing 9-10% plus in the aerospace<br />

market. The automotive market is expected to<br />

grow by 1-4%, packaging by 1-2% and commercial<br />

building and construction by 4-5%.<br />

In the heavy truck market, Alcoa has raised<br />

its 2013 growth expectation to 5-9% (previously<br />

3-8%), on improvements in the European<br />

market and a stronger Chinese market.<br />

Investment projects well un<strong>de</strong>rway: Alcoa<br />

ma<strong>de</strong> progress on its capital investments<br />

to capture value-ad<strong>de</strong>d growth opportunities,<br />

and continued to take <strong>de</strong>finitive actions in<br />

Q3 2013 to improve its position on the alu-<br />

<strong>Alu</strong>minium coil storage at Alcoa‘s Tennessee plant<br />

minium cost curve.<br />

The USD300m automotive expansion of<br />

the Davenport plant in Iowa is set to be completed<br />

by the end of 2013 with the commissioning<br />

process currently un<strong>de</strong>rway. Construction<br />

also began on the USD275m automotive<br />

expansion at Alcoa’s rolling mill in Tennessee.<br />

Both will support the growing <strong>de</strong>mand for<br />

aluminium sheet for automotive production.<br />

<strong>Alu</strong>minium sheet per vehicle is expected<br />

to grow 10-fold by 2025 in North America<br />

alone.<br />

The Ma’a<strong>de</strong>n-Alcoa joint venture project<br />

that will create one of the world’s lowestcost<br />

integrated aluminium facilities is on time<br />

and on budget. The smelter is 99% complete<br />

and full operating capacity of 740,000 tonnes<br />

a year is expected in 2014. This smelter will<br />

contribute an estimated two percentage points<br />

toward the company’s 2015 goal of lowering<br />

its position on the world aluminium production<br />

cost curve by 10 percentage points overall.<br />

The joint<br />

venture’s<br />

380,000m tpy<br />

integrated rolling<br />

mill is 88%<br />

complete. First<br />

hot coil for the<br />

rolling mill is<br />

anticipated in<br />

Q4 this year.<br />

Construction<br />

of the alumina<br />

refinery<br />

and bauxite<br />

mine are also<br />

on schedule.<br />

First alumina out of the facility and bauxite<br />

out of the mine are expected in 2014.<br />

To further improve competitiveness, Alcoa<br />

continues to review its global smelting<br />

capacity and take action on higher-cost plants<br />

and plants with long-term risk due to factors<br />

such as energy costs or regulatory uncertainties.<br />

In the first five months since announcing<br />

the 460,000-tonne capacity review, Alcoa<br />

has closed or curtailed 274,000 tonnes, equal<br />

to 60% of the capacity un<strong>de</strong>r review. Most<br />

recent actions inclu<strong>de</strong> the permanent closure<br />

of a potline representing 41,000 tonnes<br />

at the Massena East plant in New York and<br />

the temporary curtailment of 128,000 tonnes<br />

of capacity in Brazil.<br />

Alcoa now has 16%, or 651,000 tonnes, of<br />

smelting capacity offline.<br />

© Alcoa<br />

ALUMINIUM · 11/2013

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