Alcoa's aluminum bonding technology receives R&D 100 Award  [ USA ]

Alcoa, Inc. announced that R&D Magazine has named Alcoa 951 — an enabler for adhesive bonding of aluminum-intensive vehicles (AIVs) — an R&D 100 Award winner. The Alcoa 951 pretreatment bonding technology is up to nine times more durable than the competition. Today, Alcoa's plant in Davenport, Iowa, has an automotive treatment line that applies Alcoa 951 to the aluminum shee...