Aluminum will be greenhouse gas neutral by 2030  In the critical transportation industry, our research in lifecycle modeling has shown that by 2030 the emissions of the entire aluminum industry can be offset by the potential emission savings from the transport sector's increased use of aluminum.
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Materials
Alcoa’s depth of expertise in materials engineering is unmatched
- Alcoa operates the world’s largest light metals research and development center, Alcoa Technical Center (ATC), located in Pittsburgh, Pa.
- More than 100 PhDs, 200 Master’s-degreed professionals and 600 scientists serve on site at ATC, supporting Alcoa’s global businesses and their customers
- Alcoa developed 95 percent of all alloys used to build today’s commercial aircraft
- Alcoa developed 70 percent of the foundry alloys registered with the Aluminum Association
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Processes
Alcoa combines industry-leading alloy and process knowledge to deliver better solutions
- Alcoa is a global leader in understanding and predicting the behavior of aluminum during processing
- Alcoa leads the world in the development and use of phenomenological and physics-based material models
- Examples of Alcoa’s material modeling capabilities include:
- Sheet forming and springback predictability models
- Extrusion collapse modeling
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Solutions
Alcoa delivers sustainable vehicle solutions
- Alcoa is an industry leader in integrated aluminum design and joining technologies
- Alcoa’s ability to develop optimized solutions is facilitated by its extensive knowledge of:
- Forming
- Machining
- Joining and assembly
- Finishing
- Fatigue performance of materials and joints
- Crash Prediction Modeling (Property Testing, FEM)
- Design for manufacturing
- Alcoa continues to develop new alloys and processes serving the next-generation needs of the automotive market
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