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Aluminum beer cans being lifted by worker in blue glove after production in ANSI H35.2-2024 mill.
Aluminum | ANSI

ANSI H35.2-2024: Dimensional Tolerances for Aluminum Mill Products

ByBrad Kelechava December 20, 2024May 20, 2025

ANSI H35.2-2024: American National Standard Dimensional Tolerances for Aluminum Mill Products specifies dimensions for different aluminum products. How is Aluminum Used? Aluminum is a highly versatile material,…

Factory employees using aluminum for the aerospace and automotive industry while using AA AAIA-2015 to assure quality aluminum characteristics.
Aluminum | ANSI

AA AAIA-2015: Aluminum and Its Alloys

ByAlexandra Schirn November 12, 2024May 20, 2025

Consisting of about 8.2% of the Earth’s crust, aluminum is the world’s most abundant metal. However, it is never found in nature as an elemental…

Closeup of corporate plane built of steel and titanium
ANSI | Metals and Mining

Titanium vs. Steel & Aluminum

ByGuest Contributor March 4, 2020June 5, 2025

Construction engineers and safety inspectors can see the same building from different perspectives. An engineer or architect may eyeball the individual elements and consider the…

ANSI C119.6-2018 Electric Connector Aluminum Copper
Aluminum | ANSI | Electrical Safety

ANSI C119.6-2018: Non-Sealed, Multiport Electric Connector Systems Rated 600 Volts or Less for Aluminum and Copper Conductors

ByBrad Kelechava December 18, 2018June 5, 2025

Copper has been recognized as an electricity conductor throughout industrial history. In fact, copper was the conductor in classic inventions like the telegraph, telephone, and…

Ribbed aluminum tubes
Aluminum | ANSI

U.S. Aluminum Production and Uses

ByRobert Russotti January 29, 2018May 29, 2025

“U.S. production of primary aluminum declined 47% in 2016 to the lowest level since 1951. During the year, three primary smelters were shut down. High…

Stacks of gold indicate a scintillating precious metal in various forms.
ANSI | Metals and Mining

What Makes a Precious Metal?

ByBrad Kelechava December 4, 2017May 29, 2025

The now-omnipresent and affordable aluminum was once more expensive than gold. Treating it as precious and exotic, Emperor Napoleon III had aluminum cutlery made for state…

Aluminum Industry Energy Molten
Aluminum | ANSI

Global Aluminum Industry Production

ByBrad Kelechava November 15, 2017May 29, 2025

Aluminum, despite being the most abundant metal in the earth’s crust, was once more valuable than gold, but now, it is inexpensive and, accordingly, abundant in…

Man gazing in amazement at aluminum cylinders that follow aluminium standards.
Aluminum | ANSI

Aluminum or Aluminium?

ByBrad Kelechava November 6, 2017May 29, 2025

The chemical element classified on the Periodic Table with the atomic number 13 and symbol Al is a ductile, malleable silver-white metal. This metal is…

Loose stony iron ore prepared for the ISO 4688 flame atomic absorption spectrometric method to determine aluminum content.
Aluminum | ANSI

Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrometric Method in the Determination of Aluminum in Iron Ores

ByBrad Kelechava May 24, 2017May 29, 2025

ISO/TR 4688-1:2017 – Iron ores – Determination of aluminium – Part 1: Flame atomic absorption spectrometric method has been released. This technical report describes a…

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