Researching aluminum manufacturing
I just talked to a student who was researching aluminum manufacturing. Her group is charged with making recommendations on how a Vietnamese company can increase production output and efficiencies. As a non-engineer, we found a couple of resources to be pretty useful.
How Aluminum is Made gives a brief and easy-to-read explanation of the aluminum manufacturing process. I recommend you read this before the next two.
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology offers a good overview of aluminum manufacturing. I like the fact that the book has illustrations of plant layouts and goes pretty deep into the process. It’s a little harder to read than the How Stuff is Made article.
Metal Producing and Processing is a trade publication “devoted to metal producing; covers iron, steel, aluminum, brass, copper & everything else in a foundry”. We have full-text access to this via Business Source Complete.
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