Weight plays an increasingly important role in the design of components. This also boosts the importance of magnesium, because the material not only excels as the lightest metallic construction material, but also offers numerous other advantages for series production.

Alcoa Innovation, a non-profit organization based in Quebec, Canada, supporting enterprises in their innovative projects based on aluminum, from design to prototypes, developed a concept for an aluminum mega trailer with a payload of 120 MT for a greenfield project of Arianne Phosphate Inc. We talked to Yves Archambault, Project Engineer Alcoa Innovation, and Jean-Sébastien David, Chief of Operations of Arianne Phosphate, about that cooperation.

Aluminum is one of the most widely used alloys in the manufacturing of die cast parts. But what properties does this alloy have and in what applications is it used?