Category: Aluminum

The manufacturing process is rough. To go from a stainless-steel coil to a high-end final product requires demanding steps like bending, cut…

In the 1890s, aluminum debuted in the burgeoning aerospace field. Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin’s eponymous rigid airship featured an interna…

Once rarer than gold or silver, aluminum has become ubiquitous in its applications ever since a nineteenth-century chemist discovered a meth…

Many of the objects we see and use every day are made from sheet metal. It’s in our cars and appliances, our offices and elevators, and in o…

Since the Industrial Revolution, sheet metal has played an increasingly important role in global manufacturing. Today, sheet metal is used e…