Alcoa's Hungary operation ships first order of turbine airfoils.Alcoa Alcoa U.S. company, the world's largest producer of aluminum. Established in Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1888, it adopted the name Aluminum Co. of America in 1907. Alcoa introduced aluminum foil in 1910 and found uses for aluminum in the emerging aviation and automobile industries. , Cleveland, announced that its operation in Szekesfehervar, Hungary, has shipped its first order of turbine turbine, rotary engine that uses a continuous stream of fluid (gas or liquid) to turn a shaft that can drive machinery. A water, or hydraulic, turbine is used to drive electric generators in hydroelectric power stations. airfoils. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Laszlo Veres, director of manufacturing in Europe/Asia for Alcoa Howmet, the first shipment follows a modernization modernization Transformation of a society from a rural and agrarian condition to a secular, urban, and industrial one. It is closely linked with industrialization. As societies modernize, the individual becomes increasingly important, gradually replacing the family, project at the Alcoa-Kofem facility. The project included a new airfoil manufacturing operation to support Alcoa Howmet's jet aircraft and industrial gas turbine business in Europe. "Everything came together in a timely manner," Veres said. "Our casting specialists, nondestructive-testing operators and welders received training and earned qualifications on schedule. Additionally, the unit's first cell for performing post-cast processing operations on turbine vanes was put into service, and the operators of this cell completed training and earned approval to conduct visual checks, dimensional inspections and finishing operations." The turbine airfoil unit is currently installing additional production and inspection cells to accommodate the ramp-up of work that is scheduled to begin arriving in the next few months. Alcoa Hungary produces extrusion and rolling ingots, fiat [Latin, Let it be done.] In old English practice, a short order or warrant of a judge or magistrate directing some act to be done; an authority issuing from some competent source for the doing of some legal act. rolled products, automotive structures, truck bodies, wheels for trucks and buses, plastic closures and fasteners fasteners In construction, connectors between structural members. Bolted connections are used when it is necessary to fasten two elements tightly together, especially to resist shear and bending, as in column and beam connections. for the aerospace industry, as well as processing components for jet aircraft and super alloy alloy (ăl`oi, əloi`) [O. Fr.,=combine], substance with metallic properties that consists of a metal fused with one or more metals or nonmetals. industrial gas turbines. Alcoa Hungary is the 15th largest employer in the country, with 5,500 jobs. Alcoa's investment of $900 million makes it the sixth largest investor in Hungary and the second largest American investor. In November 2005, Alcoa announced an $83 million modernization project in Hungary that will move the product mix at Alcoa-Kofem toward higher value-added products. The modernization includes exPanding capability and infrastructure for flat-rolled mill products and launching a new manufacturing operation for airfoil castings in support of Alcoa Howmet's growing jet aircraft and industrial gas turbine business in Europe. |
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