Aluminum manufacturers are going green and may risk shutting down the market. Tesla orders huge aluminum casting presses for its assembly line in Germany. The "Gigapress" is the size of a small house and with a single module it will replace around 70 parts that are currently being glued and riveted into the car's chassis. Aluminum is one of the materials of choice for [...]
Process for the electrolytic production of pure aluminum SUBSTANCE: The process involves the use of anodes containing two-phase metallic copper-based and iron-based alloys, which also contain small amounts of nickel, consisting of an iron-rich reactive phase and a copper-rich solid inert phase, which are 30 to 77 Wt .-% copper, 23 to 65 wt .-% iron and 15 wt .-% nickel [...]