As demand for electric vehicles increases, the demand for strong, lightweight materials such as aluminum will increase as well. At the same time, manufacturers want the advantages of 3D printing, ...

The modelling and simulation research team at the NRC's Automotive and Surface Transportation Research Centre is a leader in ...

In the ShAPE™ process, a powder -- in this case, an Al-12.4TM aluminum alloy powder provided by SCM Metal Products, Inc., a division of Kymera International -- is poured into an open container.

You can read more about the aluminum-making process in Market Realist’s series called A key guide to understanding the aluminum business. Constellium is engaged in the aluminum fabrication business.

What’s different about the ShAPE manufacturing process is that the scrap aluminum bricks or rod-shaped billets are deformed using heat generated by high shear forces to pulverize impurities in ...

2. The Rise of 3D Printing Many metal fabrication shops that got started with traditional methods have branched into 3D printing. That change has caused some notable process changes.

A new process reduces more than 50% of the embodied energy and more than 90% of the CO2 emissions used for transforming scrap aluminum into new vehicle parts.

The global sheet metal fabrication services market is expected to post a CAGR of over 3% during the period 2019-2023, according to Technavio.