Aluminium is remarkable for its ability to resist corrosion, this is in part due to the metal's low density. Structural components created from aluminium and its alloys are vital to the aerospace industry and crucial in other areas of transportation and building.

Aluminium is a product with unique properties, making it a natural partner for the building industry. Thanks to its strength, durability, corrosion resistance and recyclability, it has become an essential product for the building industry and over the past 50 years its use in building applications has shown continuous and consistent growth. Aluminium has about one-third the density and stiffness of steel. It is ductile, and easily machined, cast, and extruded.

Benefits:

• Flexibility -  it and its alloys can be easily shaped by rolling, extrusion, forging and casting.
• Strength - its alloys can provide the strength of steel
• Weight - a third of the weight of steel and with many of the same properties
• Corrosion resistant
• Impermiable with excellent barrier functions
• recyclable - important when used as building material

Industry Applications:

• Transportation (automobiles, aircraft, trucks, railway cars, marine vessels, bicycles etc.) as sheet, tube, castings, etc..
• Packaging (cans, foil, etc.)
• Construction (windows, doors, siding, building wire, etc.)
• Cooking utensils
• Street lighting poles, sailing ship masts, Walking poles etc
• Outer shells of consumer electronics, also cases for equipment eg photographic equipment
• Electrical transmission lines for power distribution
• MKM steel and Alnico magnets
• Heat sinks for electronic appliances such as transistors and CPUs
• Widely used in watch production as it provides durability and resists tarnishing and corrosion