Swiss Aluminium Ltd.

Frank Wehner

Jurgen Timm

Heinz Bichsel

Peter Furrer

Pedro Rodrigues

A process for manufacturing thin strip or foil of aluminum of at least 99.9% purity is such that, after casting, the cast material is rolled to final thickness at temperatures between 20.degree. and 420.degree. C., whereby at thicknesses below at least 8 times the final thickness no intermediate anneals are performed and rolling is carried out at temperatures no higher than 250.degree. C. After a recrystallizing final anneal at temperatures between 480.degree. and 640.degree. C. the material exhibits mainly cube texture.

Process for manufacturing aluminum thin strip and foil having a large

A process for the preparation of a rolled aluminum product, containing iron as the predominant alloy element, which has a grain size of less than 10 .mu.m after annealing to at least 250.degree. C., in which an alloy consisting of 0.8 to 1.5% iron, up to 0.5% by weight of each of Si and Mn, the sum of Si and Mn being between 0.2 and 0.8%, up to 0.3% by weight of any other component, the total of other components being no more than 0.8% by weight, and the remainder being aluminum, is casted at a solidification rate of 2.5 to 25 cm/min, the hot plate is cooled to less than 120.degree. C. at a rate of less than 0.5 K/sec and is then cold rolled with a thickness decrease of at least 75% without intermediate annealing, and the final annealing temperature does not exceed 380.degree. C.

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