​Aluminum Core Competencies & Capabilities: 

• Metallurgy and Alloy Development

• Product Applications 

• Automotive Alloys (body sheet & foundry alloys)

• Aluminum Body Sheet (5xxx, 6xxx & 7xxx)

• Pre-aging, Stabilization and Coating

• Mechanical Metallurgy (hot rolling, cold rolling, extrusion & forging)

• Physical Metallurgy (alloy development, phase transformations, heat treatment & annealing)

• Metal Casting (direct chill, EM & continuous casting)

• Crystallographic Texture (mechanical anisotropy & earing)

• Surface Texture (EDT, ridging, orange peel & defect analysis)

• Corrosion 

• Advanced Lightweight Aluminum Structures 

• Concepts through Detailed Design and Engineering

• ​Multi-Material Solutions (sheet, plate, extrusions, etc.)

• ​Advanced Joining and Welding Technologies 

• Metals Manufacturing Processes  ​​

• Prototyping, Qualification and Industrialization 

• Market Insight