2016

Aludium’s new annealing furnace in Alicante was officially inaugurated during a ceremony on 20 October. Attending the event were Alicante’s mayor Gabriel Echávarri, and Cristina Morenom the city’s Director of Labour and Social Welfare.
The new furnace can hold a batch of three coils, each with a weight of 13.5 tonnes. Two batches of coils can be annealed each day. Installation of the furnace will increase Alicante’s annual annealing capacity to more than 5,500 tonnes.

Powered by natural gas, the state-of-the-art furnace will reduce Aludium’s energy costs and environmental footprint.

The works also involved creating new workshops for the maintenance team and the installation of cages to store the scrap to be melted.
The rotary furnace can process all types of low-cost aluminium scrap, including oily and painted metal. It will increase the capacity of the Amorebieta cast house to over 15,000 tonnes annually and reduce Aludium’s dependence on external aluminium supplies

Aludium is exhibiting for the second year at the Automotive Interiors exhibition in Stuttgart (Germany). The expanded stand has received many visitors on the first day, eager to get their first look at Aludium’s revolutionary Texturandum (patent pending) and ISO Decorandum® product lines. Visitors have been surprised by the possibilities of these new products which have applications in many sectors beyond automotive interiors.

The Aludium stand is staffed by researchers from the company’s in-house Cindal R&D centre as well as Christiane Huber and Musa Barlasakli from the sales team. CEO Arnaud de Weert was also on hand to welcome some of our most important automotive customers on the first day.

Automotive Interiors is growing in popularity with a record number of visitors expected over the three days of the show.

About Texturandum and ISO Decorandum®

Texturandum is a technology (patent pending) which enables Aludium to transfer interesting aesthetic patterns to aluminium in the mill. ISO Decorandum® expands Aludium’s standard Decorandum® range. Where the original Decorandum® patterns are longitudinal, ISO Decorandum® has a scattered, unidirectional pattern making it easier to work with. ISO Decorandum® is almost dry, which simplifies processing significantly.

Last Wednesday Mach 9^th Manuel Ruano was interviewed by Telebilbao, a local TV from the Basque Country and he explained our production process, talked about our markets, new products development, etc. Manuel remarked the good performance of Aludium as a standalone company, growing 8% in 2015 and having a target to grow 15% in 2016.