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TRUCKMAKERS NEWS * USA: Ford truck costs
* Michigan - Same trucks that deliver aluminum take scrap for reprocessing
Dearborn,MICH,USA -The W.S.Journal, by Mike Ramsey & John W. Miller -December 16, 2014: -- Ford Motor Co. ’s decision to build a lighter-weight pickup truck using aluminum body-panels has been billed largely as a way to achieve better fuel economy. The company’s boss says it is also a recycling play... The 2015 F-150, perhaps the most important vehicle to hit Ford dealerships in decades, goes on sale this month. By the time a new truck exits the factory and heads for the showroom, it will have left behind $300 worth of scrap aluminum on the plant floor... As auto executives buy into aluminum, suppliers are ramping up. Alcoa Inc., Novelis Inc. and Constellium NV have been investing in new sheet capability, including the use of recycled aluminum, hopeful that Detroit’s use of increasingly large quantities of new aluminum scrap will lower costs and reduce carbon footprints... Novelis ships coils from its roll mill in Oswego, N.Y., to Ford’s Dearborn factory with trucks that return to Oswego full of scrap. A round-trip journey takes a day or two, and, within two months, that scrap has become fresh aluminum ready to be stamped again...
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