Aluminium Alloys

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Aluminum Deoxy Alloys 80-85 is from remelting hard aluminum scrap and mixed with soft aluminum scrap 

Aluminum Deoxy Alloys 96-97 is from remelting soft aluminum profile scrap 

Aluminum / Aluminum alloys have high ductility and corrosion resistance. Aluminum / Aluminum 3003 alloy has moderate strength and good corrosion resistance. The strength of this alloy can be increased by cold working.

The following datasheet gives an overview of Aluminum / Aluminum 3003 alloy.

Aluminum Used Beverage Can (UBC) is a packaging container made primarily of aluminum. It is widely used for packaging carbonated soft drinks, fruit and vegetable juice, tea, sports drinks, and beer. UBC Scrap must be free from excessive dirt, liquid other scrap metals, lids, foil, plastic, paper, glass, and other non-metallic items.

Aluminum alloy 3105 is essentially a 98% aluminum alloy with minor additions to increase strength over that of alloy 1100 and 3003. It is not hardenable by heat treatment and it has good corrosion resistance, formability and weldability.

Having high resistance to corrosion and excellent castability, aluminum LM6 is suitable for most marine 'on deck' castings, water-cooled manifolds and jackets, motor car and road transport fittings, thin section and intricate castings such as motor housings, meter cases and switch boxes, for a very large aluminium casting, e.g. cast doors and panels where ease of casting is essential, for chemical and dye industry castings, e.g. pump parts, and for paint industry and food and domestic castings. It is especially suitable for castings that are to be welded.

The ductility of LM6 enables castings to be rectified easily or even modified in shape, e.g. simple components may be cast straight and later bent to the required contour.

LM6 is equally adoptable for sand casting and aluminium die casting (gravity die casting and pressure die casting).

It has excellent resistance to corrosion in marine environments, possesses excellent ductility, but is of medium strength and is not heat treated. Its strength falls off rapidly at high temperatures. Its elastic limit is low and there is difficulty with machining.

LM16 alloy is used for water-cooled cylinder heads, valve bodies, water jackets, cylinder blocks, fire hose couplings, air compressor pistons, fuel pump bodies, aircraft supercharger covers and similar application where leak-proof castings having the high strength produced by heat treatment are required.

LM24 is essentially a pressure die casting aluminium alloy, for which it has excellent casting characteristics and is generally a little simpler to die cast than the high Silicon containing aluminium alloys.

A pressure die casting in LM24 is suitable for most engineering applications and has advantage over an alloy such as LM6 when maximum mechanical properties are required. In practice LM6 is preferred to LM24 only for die casting in which a high resistance to corrosion is the primary requirement. LM24 has poor weldability and brazeability.

For the vast majority of die casting, the alloys LM2 and LM24 are equally suitable. A casting in LM24 is not usually heat-treated.

The ADC12 is more often used as an alternative for the A380 aluminium for parts that are highly intricate. It has outstanding machinability and excellent mechanical properties. It offers both value and performance through its dimensional stability and ease of casting. This material is commonly used in a large range of components such as furniture, power tools, machinery, engine brackets, valves, etc.