Alcoa casting process a finalist for PACE Award.Alcoa Transportation Products, Cleveland, is a finalist in the 2009 Automotive News PACE Award com petition, based on the strength of its Alcoa Vacuum Die Casting die casting Forming metal objects by injecting molten metal under pressure into dies or molds. An early and important use of the technique was in the Linotype machine (1884), but the mass-production automobile assembly line gave die casting its real impetus. (AVDC AVDC Aylesbury Vale District Council (UK) AVDC American Veterinary Dental College AVDC Alternate Voice Data CODEC AVDC Anti-Valentines Day Coalition ) process. The PACE (Premier Automotive Suppliers' Contribution to Excellence) Award is presented by Automotive News and co-sponsors Ernst & Young and Transportation Research Center Inc. Alcoa was recognized for its AVDC for lightweight door assemblies developed as an integrated casting alloy/process/equipment "systems solution." The Automotive News PACE Award is open to suppliers that contribute products, processes, materials or services directly to the manufacture of cars or trucks. 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. contest officials, the integration of Alcoa's patented AVDC casting process, dimensionally-stable, high strength/high ductility ductility, ability of a metal to plastically deform without breaking or fracturing, with the cohesion between the molecules remaining sufficient to hold them together (see adhesion and cohesion). Ductility is important in wire drawing and sheet stamping. casting alloys This is a list of alloys for which an article exists in Wikipedia (or is proposed but not yet written). They are grouped by base metal, in order of increasing atomic number. Within these headings they are in no particular order. , and large die/part size capability has expanded the lightweight options for door inner panels. Alcoa is a finalist in the Product-Europe category, which includes innovations in new products or services or in new product and service development that have significant market impact on the automotive industry The automotive industry is the industry involved in the design, development, manufacture, marketing, and sale of motor vehicles. In 2006, more than 69 million motor vehicles, including cars and commercial vehicles were produced worldwide. . The award recognizes suppliers in three additional categories: product, information technology and services, and manufacturing process and capital equipment. Alcoa, along with other Automotive News PACE Award finalists, will undergo an extensive review process, including a site visit by industry, and academic and business leaders, to select award winners. The awards will be announced in Detroit on April 20, 2009. |
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