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ALCOA LAUNCHES FOUR NEW SPECIALTY ALLOYS THAT DELIVER LIGHTWEIGHT, HIGH-PERFORMANCE SOLUTION

Issued at 2015-05-22



Lightweight, high-performance metals leader Alcoa launched a family of innovative foundry alloys designed to meet the growing need for both part performance and lightweighting in the automotive industry and beyond. 
The new alloys – SupraCast™, EZCast™, VersaCast™ and EverCast™ – offer at least 20% better fatigue resistance, strong corrosion resistance, superior strength and new lightweight solutions for many applications across automotive industry.

Customer trials are exceeding expectations, and commercial orders have already been placed in North America and Europe.

Alloys can also be used for Aerospace, Industrial and Medical Device Castings.
“Our expert metallurgists combined with our deep understanding of the automotive industry allow us to anticipate and meet customer needs quickly and effectively,” said Tim Reyes, President of Alcoa Casting.
“With this portfolio of patented alloys, we are enabling OEMs and foundries to tailor their parts to meet specific performance objectives—with material that weighs less and performs better than what is currently being used,” he added. Compared to the incumbent material, Alcoa’s new foundry alloys perform exceptionally well across applications currently cast in heavier metals, such as engine components and other critical structural parts.
VersaCast, for example, is 40-50% the weight of cast iron, with 50% better resistance to fatigue, making it ideal for the most demanding structural applications.

All of the new specialty alloys offer good to excellent castability, weldability and corrosion resistance.
In North America, SupraCast and EZCast have been successfully produced and sold, and both VersaCast and EverCast are currently being qualified by customers.\


In Europe, EZCast, SupraCast and VersaCast are commercially available.


Source: Aluplanet



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