Abstract: A process for manufacturing aluminum-based alloy thin sheets of a selected shape, looped belts for a belt caster and the belt caster including the looped belts are described. In a continuous belt caster, and from molten aluminum-based alloy, an aluminum-based alloy thin strip having a thickness of about 1 mm to about 5 mm is continuously cast and simultaneously cooled by at least one looped belt comprising at least one score line defined therein. The aluminum-based alloy strip is conveyed away from the thin-gauge belt caster. A line of weakness is formed at a location where the aluminum based-alloy thin strip contacted the at least one score line and the aluminum-based alloy thin strip is breakable along the line of weakness by application of a force to form an aluminum-based alloy thin sheet.

Abstract: A process for manufacturing an aluminum-based alloy sheet directly from a molten aluminum-based alloy is described. In a continuous caster, such as a belt-caster, and directly from the molten aluminum-based alloy, a substantially solid and substantially thin aluminum-based alloy strip, thinner than about 10 mm, is continuously cast and simultaneously cooled with a compression force on the solidifying aluminum-based alloy in a range of about 2 to about 3000 pounds per linear inch of alloy strip width. The substantially solid aluminum-based alloy strip can then be rolled, so as to obtain the aluminum-based alloy sheet. The process can include pulse heating the aluminum-based allowed sheet.

Abstract: An aluminium alloy product having a gauge below 200 ?m and a composition, in weight %, of Fe 1.0-1.8, Si 0.3-0.8, Mn up to 0.25, other elements less than or equal to 0.05 each and less than or equal to 0.15 in total, balance aluminium. A process of manufacturing the product includes the steps of continuous casting an aluminium alloy melt of the above composition, cold rolling the cast product without an interanneal step to a gauge below 200 ?m and final annealing the cold rolled product. The product may be a deep drawn container.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of making an aluminum alloy product having a gauge below 200 ?m. It also relates to an aluminum alloy product having a gauge below the same value and to containers for food packaging application made from the aluminum alloy product. The invention is process of manufacturing an aluminum alloy comprising the following steps: continuous casting an aluminum alloy melt of the following composition, (in weight %): Fe 1.0-1.8, Si 0.3-0.8, Mn up to 0.25, other elements less than or equal to 0.05 each and less than or equal to 0.15 in total, balance aluminum, cold rolling the cast product without an interanneal step to a gauge below 200 ?m and final annealing the cold rolled product.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of making an aluminium alloy product having a gauge below 200 ?m. It also relates to an aluminium alloy product having a gauge below the same value and to containers for food packaging applications made from the aluminium alloy product. The invention is a process of manufacturing an aluminium alloy comprising the following steps: continuous casting an aluminium alloy melt of the following composition, (in weight %): Fe 1.0-1.8, Si 0.3-0.8, Mn up to 0.25, other elements less than or equal to 0.05 each and less than or equal to 0.15 in total, balance aluminium, cold rolling the cast product without an interanneal step to a gauge below 200 ?m and final annealing the cold rolled product.

Abstract: There is disclosed a DC cast alloy of composition (in wt %): Fe 0.8-1.5 Si 0.7-0.95 Mn 0.2-0.5 Zn 0.2-0.8 Mg up to 0.2 Cu up to 0.2 Ti<0.1 B<0.01 C<0.01. Unavoidable impurities up to 0.05 each, 0.15 total AI balance. Also disclosed is a method of DC casting the alloy to form an ingot.