Innoval Technology Limited

The CirConAl project will provide the lowest embodied CO2 content aluminium alloys for the automotive industry, enabling light weighting at ultra-low embodied CO2 content of <1.0 tonne of CO2e per tonne of aluminium with, in time, a reduction to <0.5 tonnes/tonne and then to <0.2 tonnes/tonne. This will be achieved by taking a strategic approach to the al...

The BACpack feasibility study examines the potential to recycle low carbon scrap for the manufacture of aluminium sheet for packaging and other large-scale applications within the UK. This is an essential development for the aluminium industry as a key part of UK's foundation metals industry for both its future productivity and sustainability. The study w...

Innovative high strength aluminium alloys, novel processing, joining and assembly technologies have been developed for use in light weight crash resistant battery enclosures and for the integration of such structures into ultra-low emission vehicles (ULEVs). The optimum combination of extrusions and sheet can provide architectural flexibility in meeting b...

Most of the plastic manufactured has been discarded as waste, causing environmental and social damage of €2.2 trillion/yr and pollutes the oceans whereas aluminium has a high recycling rate that for beverage cans, is 49.8% in the US compared to 29.2% for plastic (PET) and 26.4% for glass. Bloomberg reports that Nestle SA and Unilever have announced plans ...

Innovative and ground breaking high strength aluminium alloys and processing technologies have been developed for use in light weight crash resistant battery enclosures and for the integration of such structures into ultra-low emissions vehicles (ULEVs). The combination of extrusions, HFQ sheet and castings can form both the protective structures and can ...

Constellium has developed innovative and ground breaking high strength aluminium extrusion alloys for use in light weight crash resistant vehicle structures for integration of battery enclosures into ultra low emissions vehicles (ULEVs). The extrusions can form both the protective structures and can provide novel thermal management systems which can contr...

RACEForm project is designed to catalyse cost-effective light-weighting of high volume vehicle platforms using a robust UK supply chain.The enabling technology, Hot Form Quench HFQ® was developed in Imperial College & the University of Birmingham & has a unique capability to produce, at high speed, complex high-strength aluminium components for body-in-wh...

The 36 month REALITY project will enable the development and industrial deployment of sensor-based scrap sorting technologies to separate wrought and cast alloys and then to further separate wrought alloys into alloy types for the first time. Full scale recycled scrap based sheet and castings will be produced and evaluated. End-of-life vehicles will be sh...

A major current problem for the automobile industry is to reduce the negative environmental impact of its products. One way to do this is to reduce car weight and thus reduce exhaust pollution. Around 40% weight saving is achieved if aluminium alloy is used to replace steel. A barrier to using aluminium more widely, and not only in premium grade cars, is ...

Gordon Murray Design's innovative and ground breaking iStream automotive manufacturing technology allows significant reductions in setup, production costs, vehicle mass, and lifecycle CO2 emissions, whilst offering cost effective design flexibility that exceeds current Euro NCAP occupant and pedestrian impact regulations. The project consortium of Gordon ...

Lightweight crash management systems are of increasing importance for most forms of ground transport. Automotive OEMs like JLR have advanced aluminium automotive body designs but still depend on steel for bumper beams. For rail applications steel based crash systems predominate. Constellium has developed considerably stronger extrusion alloys based on the...

The aim of this project is for a consortium of industry leaders, Lotus Cars, Innoval, PAB Coventry, Impression Technology and Imperial College to develop an enabling technology for significant reduction in carbon emissions from automobiles and therefore help preserve a healthy world environment through pollution reduction. There are two major ways this ca...