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Alcoa unveils major advance in aluminum manufacturing technology; new Micromill targeting future automotive aluminum products

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The Micromill will enable the next-generation of automotive aluminum products, and equip Alcoa to capture growing demand from automakers for lighter-weight, yet durable and formable materials. It will also be the fastest, most productive aluminum casting and rolling system in the world, Alcoa claims.

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3 AutoNation USA retail outlets obvious up to now this while

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Alternative places in Texas come with Corpus Christi, Houston, Katy and San Antonio. At the corporate’s first-quarter profits name, Manley reiterated that the function for AutoNation USA is to attract shoppers who would possibly search upkeep or alternative products and services lengthy nearest they achieve their cars.

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Toyota investing $1B in new TNGA plant in Mexico, realigning North American manufacturing; expansion in Guangzhou

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The plant is the first designed from the ground up with TNGA production engineering technologies and will leverage the existing supply base and transportation infrastructure in the region. The truck beds are used in production at TMMBC and at TMMTX in Texas.). million cars and trucks (more than 2.35

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2022 Ford F-150 Lightning First Drive: Ford’s most valued model is now electric

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We drove several F-150 Lightnings, in various trims, with and without payloads or trailers, out of San Antonio and through the winding roads of Texas hill country during the first week of May. But building an all-electric version of its core product, the company’s golden goose, took the EV program into the heart of the company.

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Asad Madni and the Life-Saving Sensor

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Madni sat at the helm of BEI Sensors and Controls, overseeing a product line that included a variety of sensor and inertial-navigation devices, but its customers were less varied—mainly, the aerospace and defense electronics industries. Madni’s started at Systron Donner by designing the world’s first spectrum analyzer with digital storage.

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Revolutionary engine to make debut

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The split-cycle engine from the Scuderi Group offers high efficiency standards without the need for large investments to modify existing production processes. According to its designers, the engine could revolutionise future viability of the internal combustion engine. The event takes place from June 16-18 in Stuttgart, Germany.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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Busicom had hired Intel to develop a set of custom chips for a low-cost calculator and had sent three engineers to Santa Clara to work on the chip designs. The Busicom engineers had no interest in dumping their design in favor of Hoff’s unproved proposal. San Jose, Calif., The project was given the internal moniker “4004.”

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