Aluminum Processing

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Aluminum Foundry

Aluminum Ingot Casting Lines: Pouring, Molds, Coating and Defects

Aluminum ingot casting is the last step between your furnace and the customer's furnace. Most of it, in...

Oct 20, 2026 6 min

Aluminum Foundry

An aluminum grain refiner and a strontium modifier solve two different problems in the same casting. The refiner...

Oct 20, 2026 7 min

Aluminum Foundry

An aluminum flux is a salt blend that protects, cleans or treats the melt, and the wrong one,...

Oct 20, 2026 6 min

Aluminum Foundry

Aluminum chip recycling turns machining swarf, the scrap with the worst melt recovery in the plant, into usable...

Oct 20, 2026 6 min

Aluminum Foundry

Aluminum degassing removes dissolved hydrogen from the melt before it can turn into gas porosity in the casting....

Oct 20, 2026 6 min

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The United States imported 580,000 tonnes of aluminum scrap in the first half of 2026, according to Discovery...

Oct 7, 2026 7 min

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Mexico has made its aluminum extrusion duties final. The Mexico aluminum antidumping duty now applies to Chinese profiles...

Sep 16, 2026 6 min

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The European Commission planned to present its proposal for a 15% duty on aluminium scrap exports on 9...

Aug 26, 2026 8 min

Aluminum Processing

Graphite rotors for aluminum degassing are consumable parts with an outsized effect on metal quality. A worn or...

Aug 21, 2026 4 min

Aluminum Processing

You find the right aluminum alloy for your project, verify the chemical composition, confirm it meets your structural...

May 12, 2026 12 min

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