For 'body-in-white' vehicle structures, body panels and miscellaneous applications
The automotive market is the aluminum industry's fastest-growing market. People want more fuel-efficient cars that are easier on the environment, but without sacrificing safety, comfort and performance.
Novelis provides customers not only with a wide range of high quality products and materials, but also with process and engineering expertise that is second to none in the aluminum industry. Whether it is highly decorative visible components such as interior applications, outside panels and trim, or hidden parts such as seat frames and carrier tapes, Novelis offers many aluminum sheet solutions for the automotive industry and its suppliers. Novelis supplies to many of the world's leading car manufacturers for the fabrication of vehicle structures and body panels such as bonnets, deck lids, liftgates, doors and fenders.
The use of aluminum is only as limited as our imagination and the trend to lightweight and fuel-saving components is increasing.
Aluminum Vehicle Technology
Novelis’ Aluminum Vehicle Technology (AVT) makes possible for the first time ever the high-volume production of a sheet-based aluminum car structure. This is a unique and significant achievement for aluminum and for the automotive industry. To find out more, watch the video above.
Products
Novelis supplies major car manufacturers with tailor-made sheet solutions:
- A wide range of 5000 and 6000 series alloys
- EDT or mill finish
- Surfaces: etched, pre-treated and anodized,
- Coatings, lubricated with oil, semi DFL and DFL
- Formats: coils, slit coils, rectangular and trapezoidal sheets, laser-cut blanks, and developed blanks for defined geometries
Novelis is one of the leading suppliers of flexible tubes and hoses for the international automotive industry. The product range includes heat protection tubes, air ducts, exhaust tubes as well as energy absorption elements. Click here to find out more.
The company also manufactures and supplies aluminum finstock that meets the requirements of high quality heat transfer for automotive heat exchanger applications. Click here to find out more.
Please contact us to discuss your requirements in more detail.
For industry information about the use of aluminum in automobiles please visit:
The Aluminum Association
The European Aluminium Association
