Company Description:
Nichols Aluminum is one of the most efficient and environmentally friendly aluminum sheet producers in North America. Using specialized blending, melting, and continuous casting processes, it produces high quality aluminum sheet from predominantly recycled materials.
Aluminum is one of the worlds most plentiful metals. Eight percent to twelve percent of the earths crust is made of bauxite ore, a clay-like earth that varies in consistency from mud to soft rock. Bauxite contains 50 percent to 60 percent alumina, also known as aluminum oxide.
When oxygen is removed from alumina by electricity, aluminum is produced. It takes 4 pounds of bauxite to net 2 pounds of alumina,
and 2 pounds of alumina to net 1 pound of aluminum.
Understandably, the process by which aluminum is made is energy-intensive because it requires the use of vast amounts of electricity. Recycle that aluminum, however, and 95 percent of the energy used
to mine and smelt it is saved.
Nichols Aluminum is one of the most efficient and environmentally friendly aluminum sheet producers in North America. Using specialized blending, melting, and continuous casting processes, it produces high quality aluminum sheet from predominantly recycled materials.
Aluminum is one of the worlds most plentiful metals. Eight percent to twelve percent of the earths crust is made of bauxite ore, a clay-like earth that varies in consistency from mud to soft rock. Bauxite contains 50 percent to 60 percent alumina, also known as aluminum oxide.
When oxygen is removed from alumina by electricity, aluminum is produced. It takes 4 pounds of bauxite to net 2 pounds of alumina,
and 2 pounds of alumina to net 1 pound of aluminum.
Understandably, the process by which aluminum is made is energy-intensive because it requires the use of vast amounts of electricity. Recycle that aluminum, however, and 95 percent of the energy used
to mine and smelt it is saved.