【SMM Aluminum Flash News】Rusal to Build Bauxite-Alumina Facility in Indonesia, Expanding Pacific Presence

Recently, Nanjing Aluminum Corporation's five major categories of architectural aluminum profiles—powder-coated profiles, painted profiles, anodized profiles, strip-insulated profiles, and cast-in-place insulation profiles—successfully passed the annual supervision and audit for the three-star China Green Building Materials Product Certification. The three-star China Green Building Materials Product Certification is the highest level in the green building materials grading system, jointly promoted by the State Administration for Market Regulation, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. It represents products meeting the highest national green standards across the entire life cycle, including resource utilization, energy consumption, environmental impact, and product quality. This annual supervision and audit, as a routine authoritative verification after certification, focuses on a comprehensive and high-standard review of core dimensions such as the company's production control system, product consistency, environmental energy consumption indicators, raw material control, waste treatment, and full life cycle green management. From first obtaining the highest three-star certification in 2023 to successfully passing this annual supervision and audit, Nanjing Aluminum's five major categories of architectural aluminum profiles represent a double affirmation of the company's product quality and green production capabilities by authoritative institutions, and are powerful evidence of Nanjing Aluminum's long-term commitment to green intelligent manufacturing and high-quality development.

Recently, the China Nonferrous Metals Society organized a scientific and technological achievement evaluation meeting. Led by Academician Gui Weihua of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the evaluation panel, composed of experts from the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association, renowned universities, and enterprises, assessed the scientific and technological achievement, "Key Technologies for Digitalization and Intelligent Manufacturing of Aluminum Alloy Body Structures," a project led by the China Aluminum Materials Research Institute. After questioning, document review, and collective discussion, the expert panel unanimously agreed that the overall technology of the project has reached the international leading level. This project closely addresses the needs of automotive lightweighting development, breaking through a series of key technologies such as digital structural design of all-aluminum bodies, intelligent equipment development, and digital material selection. It overcomes industry challenges such as the bottleneck of digital design for lightweight body structures and connection assembly, the lack of intelligent material selection calculation methods for body aluminum, and the high difficulty of digital twins for heat treatment and full-chain data governance. The related technologies and products have been applied in several major domestic OEMs, effectively promoting the domestic substitution of automotive aluminum sheets, achieving independent control of key materials, and obtaining good economic and social benefits.

Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced the preliminary list of the first batch of national emerging industry development demonstration bases, which has ended the publicity period. Guangdong Dongguang Technology Holdings Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Dongguang"), a subsidiary of the group, is on the list of demonstration enterprises in the new energy storage manufacturing field. It is reported that a total of 112 companies across the country were selected for the public list this time, including 9 companies from Guangdong Province. In the field of new energy storage manufacturing, only two companies in Guangdong were on the list, namely Dongguan Solar and China Southern Power Grid. This inclusion in the public list of national-level demonstration projects reflects the country's full recognition of Dongguan Solar's innovation capabilities in the energy storage field and the value of the industrial chain. It also provides important opportunities and policy endorsement for Dongguang Solar's accelerated development on the strategic emerging industry track. The establishment of the National Emerging Industry Development Demonstration Base aims to select benchmark companies with outstanding innovation and complete chains to play a leading role in promoting the quality and upgrading of domestic emerging industries. This selection process has gone through independent application, local selection and recommendation, formal review, and multiple rounds of expert reviews. The competition threshold is high, and the selection is full of gold, which fully confirms Dongguan's deep industrial accumulation and comprehensive strength in the new energy storage track.