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1 Aluminium in Transport
1 Aluminium in Transport
Aluminium in Transport
Passenger coaches for rail transport are now Military applications too, are increasingly
virtually all aluminium in construction. On the turning to aluminium as an alternative to steel.
road, tankers and freight carriers of all kinds are Specially formulated high-strength alloys having
increasingly turning to aluminium for chassis and a combination of light weight and good ballistic
subframe design. It is estimated that 25% of the properties are now regularly used for vehicles
aluminium used in transportation is used in road such as armoured troop carriers and mobile rocket
and rail commercial transport; much of this product launchers.
is in the form of rolled products and extrusions.
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that it is “closed-loop” recycling, so an aluminium
extruded space frame can be recycled back into
an extruded space frame, a sheet pressing back to
another sheet pressing and a cast block back into
another cast block.
http://transport.world-aluminium.org