March/April 2012

This issue's features are Extrusion and Analysis & Testing. There are a huge number of Extrusion features in this edition, some of which are being presented at the ET 2012 event in Miami in May.

These include Norsk Hydro discussing Automated Stretching LInes and Hauhinco talking about 'Press safety from a hydraulic perspective.' Other extrusion features include Presezzi Extrusion discussing 'The art of building extrusion presses' and Wagstaff's 'Fujian Aluminium expansion.'

Analysis features are from Chalieco and GeniSim, and from Thermo-calc, while the Others section has a review of the recent TMS event in Orlando, Florida.

All this plus the usual global updates and news from around the industry.

Front cover from Dubal

2 NEWS

UPDATES

10 USA – Demand set to improve in 2012
12 CHINA –China’s five-year industry plan
14 ALFED – Alfed appoints new president

EXTRUSION

17 ET event in Miami prepares for lift off
19 Automated stretching lines
25 Tribological investigation on CVD coated a
aluminium extrusion dies
28 Press safety from a hydraulic system design perspective
30 Danieli Breda secures Chinese order
31 The art of building extrusion presses
32 Tooling solutions for a press
34 Fujian Aluminium expands
35 Partnership improves extrusion division
36 Aluminium in Solar Power Systems
38 Achieving isothermal extrusion using billet mapping

ANALYSIS

41 Energy saving from a reduction pot
46 Computational thermodynamics applied to
aluminium alloys

OTHERS

50 Dubal achieves 1Mt output again
51 TMS review
53 Cathode design brings energy savings

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