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Aluminum Plate, Sheet, & Foil Technology
Secat offers the following services:
- Sheet product selection and development for specific applications:
- Can and Can Lids
- Common Alloys
- Aerospace Applications
- Automotive Applications
- Foils for Packaging and Capacitor Applications
- Sheet manufacturing process development and improvement
- Microstructural evaluation and material testing of sheet products, including texture, fatigue, etc.
- Formability evaluation and forming process modeling, including forming limit diagrams
Examples of Customer Projects
Identification & Evaluation of material properties and sheet defects to correct & optimize process conditions during hot rolling and cold rolling
A customer experienced rejection of sheet metal due to the presence of inclusions. An analysis of the defects using optical and scanning electron microscopy... 
Optimization of heat treatment cycles for various alloys
A major sheet metal producer needed to determine how the heat treatment process should be modified based on the alloy being processed.
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