Together with strong market growth the quantity of recycled aluminium packaging reached an all-time high in 2014. 94,900 tonnes of the 106,600 tonnes of aluminium packaging used in Germany were recovered as material . This represents a recycling rate of 89 per cent.

At BATIMAT 2015 Alcoa Architectural Products will present the first coil-coated, double-sheet aluminium panel, with the product name "Reynodual". This product consists of a coil-coated, double-sheet aluminium panel for facades.

With its innovative GEN 4.0 window fitting Hueck GmbH & Co. KG has set a paradigm shift for metalworking companies in motion. Not only is this German-made fitting for the Euro groove matchless in terms of mounting speed – even for the concealed model – but it also only takes a few steps to retrofit it to RC 2 and it can be dismantled non-destructively.

Trimet Aluminium SE in Essen can look back on a successful anniversary year. The materials specialist, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, concluded the 2014/2015 (30 June) financial year with a consolidated turnover of 1.8 billion euros (previous year: 1.3 billion euros).

The Singen aluminium specialist PML has, for the first time crossed a German autobahn with a pedestrian and bicycle bridge made of aluminium. The construction should be easily and freely suspended to remove it easily, in case of an autobahn expansion, and use it elsewhere.

With Harzgerode and Sömmerda, two production sites equipped to satisfy the needs of the automotive industry, the medium-size materials specialist enjoys success in this branch as innovative system supplier. This area of business shows a disproportionately high growth.

Every year Fraunhofer IPA honours innovative applications and technologies in the field of surface technology with “DIE OBERFLÄCHE” (THE SURFACE) award. Second place was awarded to Tubex GmbH for coating the interiors of aerosol cans.

Reed Exhibitions Deutschland, organiser of the leading branch exhibition ALUMINIUM in Düsseldorf, has appointed Dr. Mike Seidensticker (52) to the extended management as authorised representative.