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Oil crisis boosts aluminum auto parts use
Oil crisis boosts aluminum auto parts use. There’s a silver lining in the escalating crude oil prices for the aluminum die casting industry. The high fuel prices has renewed consumer demand for lighter, more fuel efficient and environment-friendly cars, prompting the automotive industry to increase usage of aluminum auto parts.
Aluminum now ranks second behind steel among materials used in car manufacturing. Two years ago, the average aluminum content of cars worldwide has already reached close to 280 pounds, with the average in the North American auto industry even higher at an average of 319 pounds. The world average aluminum content of cars in 2002 has been estimated at 274 pounds and at 251 pounds, clearly indicating an uptrend which in the process had aluminum auto parts overtook plastic and iron in usage by the automobile industry.
Reducing the weight of the vehicle is among the primary avenues by which car manufacturers endeavor to reduce the automobile’s consumption of fuel and emission of greenhouse gases. Car Part designers estimate that a 10% weight reduction in automobiles could reduce fuel consumption by 6-8%. If the steel body of a car is changed to aluminum, weight could be reduced by 50%. This in turn would result in an estimated savings of 3,000 liters of fuel and gas emission reduction by 7,500 kilograms during the entire lifetime of the average car. The growing list of aluminum auto parts include instrument support panels, cylinder heads, engine blocks, wheels, front and rear bumper beams, side impact beams, engine sub-frame assemblies, suspension components, roof structures and closure panels.
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Magnesium Computer Enclosure Parts Are the Future
Magnesium Computer Enclosure Parts Are the Future. Computers are taking over the world, one desktop at a time. Well, even one lap at a time. As more models are introduced and innovations continue to push the boundaries of computer technology, production of computer parts become much more complex and integrally important to each computer system.
This is where magnesium computer parts come in. Made out of a metal which boasts of being lightweight but at the same time very durable and flexible, Magnesium computer parts can be formed even into the smallest pieces but at the same time still hold these properties to keep the system working.
Magnesium has very good mechanical and electrical properties which make the metal ideal for computer parts. Magnesium is also one of the cheaper alternatives to the materials used in computer parts, so it keeps costs for those new laptops lower so that we could actually go out and buy them.
Technology is rapidly developing. It wouldn’t be a surprise if computers double their current capacity in a couple of years. To keep up with this, manufacturers need to keep on improving with their processes, starting with their parts. Magnesium computer enclosure parts will be a big part of the future of computer technology, as innovations keep on popping up.
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China leads way for solar energy
China leads way for solar energy
Andrew S. Ross – San Francisco Chronicle
September 29, 2009
Next month, Santa Clara’s Applied Materials Inc. is scheduled to open a giant solar energy R&D center. The company is investing up to $300 million in the facility. It will not be situated in California, nor in the United States, but in Xian, China. Because China’s where t he action is.
“If the U.S. doesn’t get serious, China’s going to own this industry,” said Applied Materials spokesman David Miller. He points to the Manhattan Project-like push for alternative energy adopted by Chinese officials, which includes up to $60 billion annually in government investment. And here? “Here, we’re way behind,” said Miller. “We’re still messing around with energy bills. We need to get serious, to get capital spending flowing, to get the government truly behind it, to get focused.”
Miller and his company are not simply blowing smoke. In as little as two years, analysts predict, China will be the world’s biggest consumer of solar energy. By 2013, its clean tech market could amount to $1 trillion annually, according to a report earlier this month from the China Greentech Initiative, a consortium of U.S. and Chinese companies that includes Cisco Systems and the Silicon Valley VC firm VantagePoint Venture Partners, which specializes in clean tech investments
Neither is Applied Materials alone in its views. I’ve heard them similarly expressed by numerous Bay Area executives and investors with b usiness ties to China. “They get that these are the industries of the 21st century,” says VantagePoint managing partner Alan Salzman, whose Bay Area clean tech investments include Tesla Motors, BrightSource Energy and Solazyme. “The level of support for green tech there is breathtaking. It exceeds anything done here on a state or federal level.”
As if any more wake-up calls were needed, two other VantagePoint Venture Partners’ portfolio companies, Santa Clara’s Miasolé, which produces advanced, thin-film solar panels, and Sunnyvale’s Bridgelux, developer of energy-efficient LED lighting, are reluctantly considering locating their manufacturing facilities outside the United States.
“From a global competitiveness perspective, we’re just not there,” said Salzman.
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Aluminum Die Casting Everywhere
Aluminum Die Casting Everywhere. Aluminum is turning out to be one of the most important metals in this age of modern industry. It has a lot of uses. One of them is as material for die casting parts. A cursory inventory will show us aluminum castings in a wide range of industries, from the automotive industry, the communications industry, the aircraft manufacturing industry, the computer industry, the consumer electronics industry, and the communications industry. A more detailed catalog of aluminum castings to be found around us would include lights and streetlamp housing, lawnmower gear, instrument cases, electronic gadget cases, cooking utensils, automotive parts, airplane parts, outboard motor, aluminum lighting parts.
Aluminum and metal castings in general can be produced by the processes of plaster casting, continuous casting, investment casting, sand casting, permanent mold casting, and die casting. The versatility of aluminum makes this material suitable for all of the metal processing methods mentioned here, but the die cast method is the most common method for aluminum castings. The die casting process entails the melting of the metal, then injecting it into a die cast mold, but not before applying a separating medium on the mold, then cooling the molten metal to harden it. Once it hardens, it takes the shape of the die mold. Next is the process of extracting the product from the mold. The whole thing from start to finish might take only a few seconds on a die tooling machine. The whole process is then repeated on and on. This is how the world is being supplied with aluminum die castings.
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Mitsubishi to Build Turbine Manufacturing in Georgia USA
Lake Mary, Fla.-based Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas Inc. (MPSA) is preparing to break ground on an advanced turbine manufacturing and service center near Savannah, Ga.
Mitsubishi Power Systems to Build Turbine Manufacturing Center in Georgia
The company is building the $325 million facility to manufacture and service gas and steam turbines and related components for power-generation and utility customers throughout North and South America.
Mitsubishi said it chose the 119-acre site in the Chatham County Industrial Site after an extensive search throughout the Southeastern United States that began in late 2007. Major advantages of the site include ready access to the Port of Savannah, a nearby rail spur, extensive modern infrastructure and its status as a “shovel-ready” location, according to the company.
The new facility will create 500 jobs, according to the state.
“This expansion is a vital part of our long-term strategy to further globalize our manufacturing and service capability,” said Dave Walsh, senior vice president of service and manufacturing at MPSA. “This state-of-the-art plant will provide combustor components for both Western Hemisphere customers as well as for global new turbine needs. It will also provide Mitsubishi a service capability for large components supporting Western Hemisphere power providers. Finally it will be the Western Hemisphere assembly site for out latest-technology large-frame gas turbines. This location boasts convenient access by road, rail and sea, an excellent workforce and it has the capacity to support our power generation product growth for decades to come given its size.”
Company Will Begin Making Components as Early as Fall 2010
Construction will begin in 2009 on the first phase of the plant, which will manufacture gas turbine combustor components to support operating units in the Western Hemisphere and new turbines worldwide.
The company will begin hiring in early 2010, and the Quick Start workforce training program will provide training on the assembly and service of the turbines. Aluminum Boxes and enclosures.
The company expects to begin making components as early as the fall of 2010.
In Phase 2, Mitsubishi will build comprehensive service capabilities to support turbine rotor, rotor balancing, valve and other large component repairs and upgrades for gas and steam turbines.
During the third and final phase, the company will manufacture and assemble high-efficiency, low-emission gas turbines.
