Automotive & Transportation

The benefits of using lightweight aluminum sheet in transport applications are clear:

• Aluminum offers high potential for weight savings, thus reducing emissions through the life of the vehicle, improving fuel efficiency and also handling;
• The metal is easily and widely recycled, saving energy and raw materials;
• It has very good deformation characteristics and manufacturing properties;
• Aluminum will absorb the same amount of crash energy as steel, at a little more than half the weight;
• It has good corrosion resistance.

Novelis' product range for the transportation market includes: sheet for automotive vehicle structures and body panels; pre-painted and plain sheet for commercial vehicle applications such as dump bodies, cabs and trailer flooring; "shate" for ship hulls and decks, tippers, road tankers, etc;  plain, heat-treated or painted slit strips and coils – customized to the needs of automotive part suppliers; high specification foil (industrial finstock) and brazing sheet for heat exchangers; and foil for insulation applications.

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