Aluminum Technical Content
Trending Market Insights for Aluminum Thermal Processing
Are there rapid changes in the North American aluminum industry to accommodate trending technology, or does the aluminum market have a ...
Heat Treat Radio #80: Lunch & Learn with Heat Treat Today – Mill Processes and Production, part 2
Heat Treat Radio host, Doug Glenn, and several other Heat Treat Today team members sit down with long-time industry expert Dan Herring, The ...
Heat Treating A-LU-mi-num
Al-u-MI-ni-um. A-LU-mi-num. Heat treating aluminum is not something we often get a chance to talk about, but it is everywhere. From ...
The Basics of Vacuum Aluminum Brazing
Source: Signature Vacuum When you are a new heat treater, there are really only three things you want to know to ...
Heat Treating Short Cut, Or Just a Bad Idea?
Source: Ipsen, The Harold Jim Grann, Technical Director, Ipsen (photo source: www.ipsenharold.com) We all like to make savvy commercial decisions, in ...
High-Strength Al-Based Alloys Being Developed for Aerospace and Automotive
A global technology group, an industrial gases company, an additive and design company, and an engineering university in Germany have entered ...
Aluminum Alloy Achieves Ultimate Tensile Strength in Heat Treating
An aluminum alloy developed and patented five years ago has been identified as one of the strongest aluminum additive manufacturing powders ...
Conquering Aluminum Furnace Corundum: Effective Controls for Corundum Growth That Improve Quality and Cut Costs
Dan Szynal, VP of Engineering & Technical Services, Plibrico Aluminum processors face constant challenges to their aluminum melt operations. Due to ...
Aluminum Alloys 101 for Automakers
Source: Aluminum Insider The use of aluminum has rapidly increased in the manufacturing of automotive and commercial vehicles, thanks ...
Part Failure Investigation & Resolution, a Case Study
A Chicago-area automotive part supplier encountered frequent cracking of variable valve timing plates that were sent to a third party for ...
Heat Treatment Integral to New High-Strength Aluminum Production
Professor Jianguo Jin, Imperial College London Source: The Engineer A manufacturing technique capable of producing high-strength aluminum sheet alloys ...
Updated MPIF Standard 35 Refers to Heat Treatment of Alloys
Source: 3DEO A new update on MPIF Standard 35 was issued in October 2017 by the Metal Powder Industries ...
Advanced Aluminum Armor Alloys
Source: Light Metal Age Aluminum armor solutions have been in existence for the past 60 years, almost since the start ...
Direct-Chill Casting
Source: Total Materia Direct-chill (DC) casting is currently the most common semi-continuous casting practice in non-ferrous metallurgy. The process is ...
Reduced Heat Treatment Requirements for Components Made with Aluminum-Cerium Alloys
Source: Engineering 360 "The key to the alloys' high-temperature performance is a specific aluminum-cerium compound, or intermetallic, that forms inside ...
HISTORIC VIDEO: Aluminum Heat Treatment
HISTORIC VIDEO: Aluminum Heat Treatment (22 mins., Original circa 1945, Uploaded: 28 September 2015). Here’s a throwback in time. Take a ...
