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Aluminum was introduced in Brazil with great success together with the producers of buses bodies, small utility trucks, railway tanks, railway wagons and bicycles. This excellent acceptance is due, mainly, to the features of the metal: specific weight three times lighter than steel, allows the reduction of issuance of pollutants, increases the cargo capacity, reduces the cost of transport and increases the life time of the vehicle.
The high relationship resistance/weight found in aluminum guarantees the success of its utilization in structural projects. In addition, it is a metal that can transport a great variety of chemical and food products without suffering corrosion, contamination and without presenting changes in its mechanical properties.
See below the main applications of CBA products in the transport industry:
Bodies for Buses and Parts Distributors
The use of aluminum by those sectors is consolidated and presents positive results, and may be applied in various items of projects, such as roofs and lateral linings of buses; columns, doors and lids of trunks; floors, spoilers, fuel tanks, hubcaps, wheels, hoods, bus structures and finishing in general.
CBA acts in these important sectors adopting a system of partnership with the major country producers.
Main products used: extrusions, plates and coils, threads and stucco plates.
Aluminum Containers, Vans, Trucks and Trailers
The high ratio that the aluminum offers between resistance and weight explains the growing demand for this metal by the manufacturers of containers, utility vans, trucks and trailers. The advantages of aluminum utilization are even higher by the economy of investment in the long run, because there is a lower cost with fuel and maintenance, and an increase of the life time of the vehicle.
The aluminum is found in open bodies or of dry loads, trucks to transport drinks, refrigerated trucks, siders, trailer trucks and semi trailer trucks for agribusiness products, silos and railway tanks for chemical and food products.
Main products used: profiles, plates and coils and threads.
Auto-parts and Automotive Industry
The requirements to reduce the level of pollution emission, have made aluminum step forward as one of the most appropriate alternatives for the automotive industry.
Apart from the ecological benefits it offers, aluminum presents excellent thermal conductivity and low density, which makes it an ideal material for the making of heat exchangers. The high resistance to corrosion is one more factor which adds advantages to the automobile projects in a general way.
Main products used: profiles, plates
and coils, sheets and ingots.
Shipyards, Naval and Nautical Industry.
The great resistance to corrosion in marine environments, added to the work facilities that it offers, make aluminum very useful to the naval industry, with applications in military vessels, transatlantics, launches, yachts, sports and recreational boats, amongst other.
Main products used: profiles, plates and coils.
Producers of Railroad Wagons and Tanks, and Subway Wagons
Because they are lighter than those made of steel, aluminum wagons become more durable and have an easier maintenance.
Similar to what happens in Europe and North America, aluminum grain wagons, together with the modernization of Brazilian railway, will improve the quality of our railway transport, and the same will be true if applied to the sectors of subway transport and liquid railway loads.
Main products used: profiles and plates.
Producers of Bicycles and Motorcycles
The features of aluminum allow its increasing utilization in this sector as it is more appreciated and essential. The reason is due mainly, to the diversity of shapes obtained in the extrusion process, its lightness and the high resistance to corrosion of the metal.
Main products used: profiles, aluminum ingots and plates.
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