What is Cold Rolled Aluminum?

If you seek the Internet for what a cold-rolling mill is, one is probably hard-pressed to discover a description to narrate to and understand. It is vital to preface that what's worried withinside the system of re-rolling aluminum coil or strip is pretty capital intensive, and is the reason why there are restrained turbines withinside the United States with a view to flat roll aluminum coil.

When describing this system to people, the high-quality instance you can still offer is a easy roll of aluminum foil. To roll aluminum foil that we buy in our neighborhood supermarkets, a beginning coil of .25 inches thick might be continously rolled thinner to be able to attain a very last thickness of roughly .00063 inches, that's akin to a strand of human hair. Who might have concept that everday kitchen foil comes from the hugely thick coils of aluminum we see being shipped across the u . s . everday?

The rolling mill at Ashland Aluminum is impressive, simply due to its sheer size and extreme rolling strength. We take delivery of heavy gauge aluminum coil  and roll the coil to the tolerances and mechanical properties our customer requires. As you roll the aluminum thinner and thinner you begin to harden the aluminum and make it brittle. In order to prevent the aluminum from breaking, tearing and becoming extremely hard during the rolling process, it must be annealed.  Annealing is a treatment that involves heating the material above its critical temperature, maintaining that temperature, and then cooling the metal. This process alters the physical and sometimes chemical properties of a material to increase its ductility, soften material, relieve internal stresses, and make it more workable. 

Ashland Aluminum has the expertise to produce flat-rolled aluminum coil, precision-rolled aluminum coil, and cold-rolled aluminum strip. Our facility is able to perform aluminum coil annealing and can work with tight tolerance flat-rolled aluminum coil and strip. We work hard to understand all of the processing techniques in order to produce a superior product for our customers.  We look forward to working with you.