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Aluminum Welded to Steel in New GM Automobiles
General Motors first came on the scene as an innovator of aluminum machining technology in 2008 when they employed spot-welding to weld small amounts of aluminum to aluminum on a lift [...]
Faster Than a Speeding Bullet: Aluminum Trains of the Future
A futuristic, levitating train is in the works by Hyperloop One. Their secret to making it possible? Aluminum. This levitation train travels at a low-pressure speed of 760 mph, but [...]
AEC Announces Industry Wide EPD to Promote Sustainability
A recent article published by U.S. Glass Mag talks about the increased effort towards “product transparency” in the aluminum extrusion industry via an industry-wide EPD for aluminum extruders. This urge [...]
Aluminum Extrusion Oddities: What’s The Weirdest Custom Aluminum Shape Ever Extruded?
Snapshot taken from one of Taber’s company board rooms at their Russellville, Arkansas plant. After searching the aluminum extrusion world near and far, tall and wide, flat and [...]
Global Aluminum Extrusion Market Predicted to Surpass 24 Million Tons by 2019
A new research study by leading global tech research and advisory company Technavio has projected the global aluminum extrusion market to to surpass 22 million metric tons (that’s well over [...]