Alcoa wins Hyundai contract.Alcoa announced that Hyundai Motor Manufacturing America (HMMA HMMA Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama LLC ) will use an Alcoa cast aluminum rear upper control arm for the Korean automaker's 2007 Santa Fe Santa Fe, city, Argentina Santa Fe, city (1991 pop. 341,000), capital of Santa Fe prov., NE Argentina, a river port near the Paraná, with which it is connected by canal. crossover Crossover The point on a stock chart when a security and an indicator intersect. Crossovers are used by technical analysts to aid in forecasting the future movements in the price of a stock. In most technical analysis models, a crossover is a signal to either buy or sell. vehicle. It is the first Alcoa component to be used by Hyundai Automotive. "Alcoa Automotive Castings is excited about the use of our products on a Hyundai key structural component and looks forward to strengthening our relationship in the future," said Misha Riveros-Jacobson, President, Alcoa Advanced Transportation Systems and Alcoa Automotive Castings. This component is produced using Alcoa's VRC/PRC process, which produces higher mechanical properties compared to conventional permanent mold processes. The improved mechanical properties allow for lighter designs (yielding at least a 40% mass reduction when compared with a fabricated fab·ri·cate tr.v. fab·ri·cat·ed, fab·ri·cat·ing, fab·ri·cates 1. To make; create. 2. To construct by combining or assembling diverse, typically standardized parts: steel design) and improved performance. VRC/PRC also can manufacture hollow designs creating thin-walled castings, which allows an additional 30% reduction compared to solid aluminum designs. The 2007 Santa Fe will be built at HMMA's new plant in Montgomery, Ala ALA aminolevulinic acid. Ala alanine. ala (a´lah) pl. a´lae [L.] a winglike process. . Production is scheduled to begin in the second quarter of 2006, with vehicles arriving in dealerships during the summer. |
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