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| November 27, 2007
Alcoa Receives NADCAP Certification for Heat Treatment and Nondestructive Testing at Its Samara Forging Business
NEW YORK & MOSCOW--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alcoa (NYSE:AA) today announced it has received the National Aerospace
and Defence Contractors Accreditation Program’s
(NADCAP) approval for ultrasonic inspection and heat-treated forged
products at its Samara manufacturing facility in Russia. NADCAP is an
industry-managed accreditation program designed to develop a global
aerospace industry supplier base with world-class quality control for
special processes.
The Samara plant became the second Russian production facility to
acquire the right to enter the world aerospace market and work with such
customers as Airbus and Boeing. Alcoa’s Belaya
Kalitva heat-treated sheet and plate received NADCAP approval this past
summer.
The NADCAP certification audit was conducted in two stages. The first
included certification of the heat treatment process, pyrometry and
laboratory tests at Samara Forging Production. The second stage included
certification of the ultrasonic testing procedures, which are
particularly important for aerospace products.
Alcoa Russia President Bill O’Rourke, said, “We
have made considerable progress in a relatively short time period in
order to achieve this milestone. We placed a great deal of emphasis on
achieving the certification in light of the Memorandum of Understanding
between Alcoa and United Aircraft Corporation as well as in our serving
aerospace leaders such as Airbus and Boeing. The next stage is to go
through final certification with Airbus and Boeing.”
Alcoa is the world's leading producer and manager of primary aluminum,
fabricated aluminum and alumina facilities, and is active in all major
aspects of the industry. Alcoa serves the aerospace, automotive,
packaging, building and construction, commercial transportation and
industrial markets, bringing design, engineering, production and other
capabilities of Alcoa's businesses to customers. In addition to aluminum
products and components including flat-rolled products, hard alloy
extrusions, and forgings, Alcoa also markets Alcoa®
wheels, fastening systems, precision and investment castings, structures
and building systems. The company has 116,000 employees in 44 countries
and has been named one of the top most sustainable corporations in the
world at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. More
information can be found at www.alcoa.com.
NADCAP (National Aerospace and Defence Contractors Accreditation
Program) is the leading worldwide cooperative program of major companies
designed to manage a cost effective consensus approach to special
processes and products and provide continuous improvement within the
aerospace and automotive industries. NADCAP is an unprecedented
co-operative industry effort to improve quality, while reducing costs,
for quality assurance throughout the aerospace and defense industries.
Furthermore it is an industry-managed approach to conformity assessment
that brings together technical experts from both industry and government
in the NADCAP organization. The following special processes and
resultant products can be NADCAP accredited: aerospace Quality
Standards, Coatings, Chemical Processing, Composites, Distributors,
Electronics, Fluids, Heat Treating, Materials Testing, Nonconventional
Machining and Surface Enhancement, etc. More information can be found at http://www.pri-network.org/Nadcap
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