Alcoa has signed a multi-year supply agreement with Airbus valued at approximately US$110 million for value-added titanium and aluminum aerospace forgings. The agreement also includes several large aluminum forgings for the A330 and A380; ...
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Wildcat Silver Corporation (TSX: WS) ("Wildcat") announces positive results from its pre-feasibility study for its Hermosa project located in Santa Cruz County, Arizona. The pre-feasibility study includes the contribution from the projects' ...
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Aluminium is preferred over steel as it weighs less and offers more malleability and tensile strength. By using aluminium in the form of extrusion - the process of extracting aluminium into shapes and casts - the metal can be used for ...
A Mazda CX-5 has joined the CarAdvice long-term test fleet, though this one will be around longer than usual: I’ve bought one. If you had been keeping up to date with our Santa Fe long-term reviews, you’ll know the Mazda CX-5 ...
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The options are many, to choose foundry suppliers. Sources include visitors 'book, advertisements, magazines, buyers' guide word of mouth contact from other buyer and engineering personnel. The buyer must be always looking for reliable ...
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Offers for Chinese ADC12 aluminum alloys have dropped in the last two days ahead of the close of Toyota Motor's tender seeking 10,000 mt/month of molten aluminum alloy and ingot for January-March 2014 on Monday, Japanese traders said ...
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When the current-generation Volkswagen Polo launched in Australia in mid 2010, it introduced levels of powertrain refinement, dynamic ability and interior sophistication never before seen in the city-car class. In the three and a half ...
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The 2014 Mercedes-Benz S-Class has launched in Australia with a starting price of $215,000 for the S350 BlueTEC diesel. The initial range includes the S350 diesel and its long-wheelbase variant (LWB) for $222,500, as well as the $285,000 ...
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With specifications lists that punch well above their weight and each offering vast interior acreage, you'd think the mid-size segment had already shown us everything it could offer – but that was before the launch of the all-new ...
The all-new Skoda Octavia has arrived with an aggressive $21,690 starting price as it aims to shake up Australia's mid-sized segment. Official specification details – released a day early following CarAdvice's exclusive story ...
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Fineblanking combines the technologies of stamping and cold extrusion to provide parts with smooth edges with high accuracy. The stability and precision of the single step process eliminates the need for a number of other operations such as ...
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Toyota Australia says it has its fingers crossed the Toyota 86 Convertible is approved for production after the brand unveiled an updated FT86 Open concept at today’s Tokyo motor show. The new ‘Flash Red’ Toyota 86 ...
The Nissan Altima is not a replacement for the Maxima, despite the former arriving as the latter departs. That’s the word from Nissan Australia, which reasons that the Altima is a medium car while the Maxima is a large car, despite ...
Constellium N.V. (NYSE and NYSE Euronext: CSTM) announced today that the company has been awarded a multi-year agreement with The Boeing Company to support all of The Boeing Company's leading commercial airplane programs. With this ...
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The Mercedes-Benz AMG Vision Gran Turismo is a futuristic, high-performance, gullwing supercar with just one problem: it doesn’t actually exist. The good news is that while it will never hit the road, fans will be able to get behind ...
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