SCANDIUM APPLICATIONS

• Scandium will play a very important role in the Aeronautical, Aerospace, Avionics and Automotive Industries. The principal uses for Scandium are in Aluminum-Scandium alloys production (lightweight alloys with strength increase), and in the solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs)

 

• The Aluminum Scandium alloys have advantages, such as:

 

- high specific strengthening effect, inhibition of recrystallization, refine grain size, modifying cast structure, making possible to obtain continuous cast billets, reducing and eliminating the hot cracking in welds, improving fatigue life

 

•  AlMgSc technology also has mastered the application on the manufacturing of finished parts using the Additive Manufacturing (AM) process by using digital 3D printers (low lead time, more accuracy in developing parts with complex geometry, low material consumption and significant weight savings)

Effects of Scandium Utilization in Aluminum

• Strength Increase

• Corrosion Resistance

• Anodization
• Extrusion Properties
• Hydro-Formability  

• Heat Working Temperature
• Weldability

AUTOMOTIVE

• Car body and casings (less weight, more strength)

• Battery boxes for Electric Vehicles

• Automotive Cables

• Aluminum Cargo Containers

• Wheels and Castings

 

MILITARY

• Vehicle Armor Plate

• Personal Protection-body Armor

• Ammunition Casings

 

TRAINS

 

MARINE

 

PERSONAL MOBILITY AND SMALL VEHICLES

 

ELECTRONICS

 

COMMUNICATIONS

• 5G RF Antennas

 

WELDING WIRE AND ROD

 

MEDICAL

 

RENEWABLE ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE

 

HIGH VOLTAGE POWER CABLES

 

SPECIALTY FOILS

 

HEAT EXCHANGERS

 

EXTRUSIONS

 

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURE - LAM (Laser) and WAAM (Wire Arc)