Aleris direction for aerospace technology

As a major supplier of aluminum flat rolled products, Aleris care to implement solutions answering the needs of their Aircraft customers, proposing state of the art material and opening opportunities for innovative manufacturing. The material portfolio is continuously upgraded. In particular new alloys are now available for wing skin applications. Pre machining and implementation of closed loop recycling complete the material offer on base of a strong industrial foot print allowing to capture the growth of Aircraft manufacturing in Asia Pacific. Focus is also put on how to make best use of the material: Ever growing attention is paid to innovative manufacturing solutions. Among them, production of multi-material metallic components, alternatives to stretch forming, to riveting, smart ways to improve buy to fly ratio or design closer to the limits open new horizons for cost effective, light, reliable and performing metallic Aircraft structures.