Aleris Aluminum Duffel Bvba

Aleris Aluminum Koblenz Gmbh

Corus Aluminum Walzprodukte Gmbh

Corus Aluminum Nv

Aleris Rolled Products Germany Gmbh

Bruno Schepers

Sunil Khosla

Axel Alexander Maria Smeyers

Alastair Wise

Sabine Maria Spangel

Peter De Smet

Job Anthonius Van Der Hoeven

Ingo Günther Kröpfl

Linzong Zhuang

Jean Pierre Jules Baekelandt

Ingo Günther KRÖPFL

Linzhong Zuang

An aluminum alloy rolled sheet product for forming into automotive body panels, and having a yield strength of more than 160 MPa after being subjected to a paint-bake cycle, and having a gauge in a range of 0.5 to 4 mm, and preferably 0.7 to 3.5 mm, and having a composition of, in wt. %: Zn 1.5 to 4.0, Mg 0.3 to 1.5, Cu 0 to 1.0, Ti 0 to 0.15, Fe 0 to 0.35, Si 0 to 0.5, other elements and unavoidable impurities, and balance aluminum. An automotive body part formed from such an aluminum sheet. A method of manufacturing an automotive body part. Also, the use of the aluminum alloy sheet product in such a method of manufacturing.

Formed automotive part made from an aluminium alloy product and method of its manufacture

A method of manufacturing a formed aluminum alloy body-in-white ('BIW') part of a motor vehicle, the BIW part having a yield strength of more than 500 MPa after being subjected to a paint-bake cycle. The method includes (a) providing a rolled aluminum sheet product of an AlZnMgCu alloy and having a gauge in a range of 0.5 to 4 mm and subjected to a solution heat treatment (SHT) and quenched following SHT, and wherein the SHT and quenched aluminum sheet product has a substantially recrystallized microstructure, (b) forming the aluminum alloy sheet to obtain a formed BIW part, (c) assembling the formed BIW part with one or more other metal parts to form an assembly forming a motor vehicle component, (d) subjecting the motor vehicle component to a paint bake cycle, wherein the aluminum alloy sheet in the formed BIW part has a yield strength of more than 500 MPa.

Structural automotive part made from an Al&#x2014;Zn&#x2014;Mg&#x2014;Cu alloy product and method of its manufacture

A method of making a wrought aluminium-magnesium alloy rolled product, having a composition (in wt. %) of: 3.1&#x3c;Mg&#x3c;4.5; 0.4&#x3c;Mn&#x3c;0.85; 0.4&#x3c;Zn&#x3c;0.8; 0.06&#x3c;Cu&#x3c;0.35; 0.06&#x3c;Cr&#x3c;0.2; Fe&#x3c;0.35; Si&#x3c;0.2; Zr&#x3c;0.05; Ti&#x3c;0.3; impurities&#x2266;0.05 each up to a total of max. 0.15, and balance aluminium.

Wrought aluminium-magnesium alloy product

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