With its high strength to weight ratio and recyclability, aluminum is a popular material choice for automotive parts, like this demo part, which is modeled after an automotive inverter housing. But ...

How does a metal part go from a basic idea to millions of identical, high-performance components? Doug Stevens of Stevens Company, Inc. addresses this question in a HelloNation article focused on the ...

The study demonstrates that aluminum manufacturing scrap can be transformed into metal alloys through a new method called solid phase alloying that perform on par with identical materials produced ...

Using a novel Solid Phase Processing approach, a research team eliminated several steps that are required during conventional extrusion processing of aluminum alloy powders, while also achieving a ...

Apple is investing in a new joint venture with aluminum giants Alcoa and Rio Tinto. Apple uses a lot of aluminum in its products. The joint venture is called Elysis, and its focus will be on working ...

Purdue University material engineers have created a patent-pending process to develop ultrahigh-strength aluminum alloys that are suitable for additive manufacturing because of their plastic ...

RICHLAND, WASHINGTON, June 18, 2019 - An advanced manufacturing process to produce nano structured rods and tubes directly from high-performance aluminum alloy powder -- in a single step -- was ...