Aluminum Provides Sustainable Future for Automotive Market
Alcoa's Dr. Rick Winter Addresses Conference on Sustainability of Aluminum in Automobiles
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Alcoa Achieves One-Year Milestone with Honda
CLEVELAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alcoa Forged and Cast Products announced today a one-year milestone in contributing to the success and sleekness of Honda’s most popular model – the Accord. A year ago, Honda and Nissen Chemitec America put into service the first high-volume production tool made from Alcoa’s newest mold alloy, QC-10®. Honda is using this production tool on its highest selling platform with excellent results.
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Alcoa Supplies Spaceframe for Ferrari California
Alcoa Supplies Spaceframe for Ferrari California
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Chrysler LLC's Street and Racing Technology (SRT) Selects Alcoa's Dura-Bright® Technology for Dodge Viper and Jeep® Grand Cherokee
Alcoa Automotive Wheels, a division of Alcoa Wheel and Transportation Products, announced today that it has been awarded platform placement of Dura-Bright® technology wheels with Chrysler LLC’s Street and Racing Technology (SRT) engineering organization.
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Audi Selects Alcoa Wheel's Dura-Bright(R) Technology for New A6
Stay Clean Wheel Option Latest in Alcoa and Audi Innovation in Aluminum
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Aluminum-Intensive Audi A8 Team
Honored as European Inventors of the Year
A team from Audi recently captured the 2008 European Inventor of the Year Award for revolutionizing the automotive industry by developing the first aluminum-intensive automobile that went into mass production, the Audi A8.
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Alcoa's Kevin Kramer Interviewed
Kevin Kramer, president of Alcoa Wheel and Transportation Products, discusses the future of aluminum in automobile design in the May 2008 issue of aei-online, the SAE's monthly web publication. Kramer predicts more aluminum content in chassis, frame, wheel and body components, driven by environmental and fuel efficiency trends.
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Alcoa Combines Wheel Products and Auto and Truck Business into New Business Unit; Kevin Kramer Named President of the New Business Unit
CLEVELAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alcoa (NYSE:AA) announced today that it has combined its Wheel Products business with its Auto and Truck Structures business to form a new business unit, called Wheel and Transportation Products.
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Alcoa Applauds U.S. House of Representatives for Passage of New Vehicle Fuel Efficiency Standards
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alcoa (NYSE:AA) announced today it applauded the U.S. House of Representatives for passing new vehicle fuel efficiency standards incorporated in the energy bill. The bill would require 35 miles per gallon fuel average for new domestic vehicles, including SUVs, by 2020 – a 40 percent increase from current corporate average fuel-economy (CAFE) standards.
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Alcoa to Supply Forged Aluminum Wheels with Dura-Bright(R) Technology to Shelby Automobiles
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alcoa (NYSE:AA) announced today that it will supply custom-designed forged aluminum wheels featuring the company’s patented Dura-Bright® technology surface treatment to Shelby Automobiles for the company’s 2008 Mustang King of the Road (KR) and Super Snake models. The wheels will be supplied from the company’s Cleveland (Ohio) Works.
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Alcoa Supplies Components to Nissan for GT-R, its New Flagship High Performance Sports Sedan
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alcoa (NYSE:AA) announced today that it is supplying two complex components for Nissan's GT-R, the company's new flagship for high-performance driving around the world.
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Alcoa Launches Innovation Web Site to Showcase Technology Solutions for Design Engineers
PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alcoa announced today that it has launched a new technology web with rich, detailed scientific information on aluminum and other light metal technology that will help design engineers develop new products.
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Alcoa Wheels to Supply Forged Aluminum Wheels With Dura-Bright® Technology to TechArt Automobildesign
CLEVELAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alcoa Wheel Products, a Cleveland, Ohio-based business unit of Alcoa (NYSE:AA), today announced an extensive wheel fitment program with TechArt Automobildesign to include the new Porsche Cayman, Boxster, 911 Carrera and 911 GT3. All wheels also fit the Porsche series cars.
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Alcoa Wheels Selected as Exclusive Wheel Supplier to Super-Exotic Lamborghini Murcielago Reventon
CLEVELAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alcoa Wheel Products, a Cleveland, Ohio-based business unit of Alcoa, today announced an exclusive supplier agreement to provide all wheels for the super-exotic Lamborghini Murcielago Reventon.
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Alcoa Pro Series Wheel Debuts In Protruck Series Competition At Pikes Peak International Hill Climb Challenge
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO (July 20, 2007) - Baja racing legend and Protruck visionary, Ivan "Ironman" Stewart today announced Alcoa Pro Series wheels, the same wheel that consumers can purchase through their local Alcoa retailer, to be used in competition by all Protruck teams at the historic Pikes Peak Hill Climb Challenge to be held in Colorado Springs, CO on Saturday, July 21, 2007.
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New interactive game -- build and race your own Ferrari!
Learn what makes Ferraris go fast by building your own car and racing it against a Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano. If you make the right choices, you may have a fighting chance.
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Climate change, sustainability are driving new opportunities for automotive aluminum, according to AATS President
"Automotive customers are going to need every tool, material, and technology available to build sustainable vehicles," Misha Riveros-Jacobson, president of Alcoa Auto & Truck Structures, told the Aluminum Association at their annual spring meeting in Nashville, Tennessee.
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New study confirms aluminum's greenhouse benefits in transportation
Dalian, China (July 26, 2007)—The world aluminium industry reported today that the application of automotive aluminium in passenger cars manufactured in 2006 will lead to potential global savings of approximately 140 million tons of CO2 equivalent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and to energy savings equivalent to about 60 billion litres of crude oil over the lifecycle of these vehicles.
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Leading-Edge aluminum a key part of Jay Leno's EcoJet supercar
New Video from Jay Leno's Eco-Jet sustainable supercar project shows how light, strong, sustainable aluminum technology plays a key role.
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