Is all aluminum the same?

Aluminum ASCR
ASCR (Aluminium Conductors Steel Reinforced) conductor is used for river crossings, overhead and ground wire installations
or also used just as a ground wire.
Aluminum Breakage
Casting alloys containing more than 5% forien material are divided into high or low recovery. This item
is commonly found in aluminum engines and tranmission parts but also used in other products.
Aluminum Bumpers
Common to be a 7000 series with zinc as the principal alloying element. You may find some truck
bumpers to be a 5052 alloy with magnesium being the principal alloying element.
Aluminum Cans
As a new pre consumer product this is a 1100 alloy, once used it is known as UBC (used beverage can) or RBF-UBC.
Aluminum Cast
Cast aluminum can be produced using several different casting processes that include sand, permanent mold, die, lost foam, or squeeze.
Common products will be found with engine parts, transmissions as well as other not so common products. Cast can be bought as clean as long
as all forien material has been removed, if not it could be bought as a breakage.
Aluminum Clips
A very common mix of 1100, 3003, 3004, 5005, 5052, 6061 and 6063. This mixture of
alloys may also be found with aluminum MLC. This is can be familiarized as an aluminum product with a sheet like appearance, free of any forien
elements.
Aluminum Dirty Sheet
This category is for almost all alloys of sheet aluminum that contain a small amount of forien element. Common material
would be sheet aluminum that may have screws, nails or a small amount of plastic. This can include lawn chairs, rain gutter, siding and
other sheet aluminum products.
Aluminum EC Wire
A common conductor found in different gauged wire that is shielded with a rubber or plastic outer layer. The aluminum
used in most of this product is no less than 99.5% pure giving it a high value if it's stripped of it's outer shield.
Aluminum Extrusion
Aluminum extrusions will commonly be found in the alloys of 6061 and 6063. Using magnesium and silicon in various
proportions to form magnesium silicide thus, creating a heat treatable aluminum alloy with durable strenth. Common uses include ladders,
window frames, and screen doors.
Aluminum Foil
This familar household product is also recyclable and like a beverage can this is also 1100 alloy but because of the thinness
not all the aluminum is recovered in the smelting process, dramatically affecting the price of this material.
Aluminum Litho Plate
This is commonly used in printing shops and usually has better value over other aluminum. The alloy is either 1100 or 3003 but
most likely 3003. Manganese is the major alloying element.
Aluminum MLC
As with clips this is a very common mix of 1100, 3003, 3004, 5005, 5052, 6061 and 6063. Unlike clips, MLC is usually the thick
solids instead of the thin clean sheets. MLC is the initals for mixed low copper.
Aluminum Painted Sheet
Any sheet or clip aluminum that has been contaminated with paint will be bought in this category unless the paint is unusually
thick or contains other forien material, then the materail will have to be downgraded.
Aluminum Radiators
You will find an aluminum radiator in most modern cars. These are purchased for recycling with or without the plastic ends, of course increasing the value
by removing the plastic.
Aluminum Rims
Usually a 6061 alloy and found on most modern cars.
Aluminum Thermo Bond
Thermo bond is usually bonded by two pieces of extrusion with a thermo adhesive, creating a better insulation around windows and doors.
This type of material must be kept seperated from other extrusions.
Aluminum Turnings
Turnings or shavings are usually found at machine shops and left after drilling holes into a block or sheet of aluminum. These turnings have less value
than aluminum sheet because recovery is less in the smelting processes and also more likely to be contaminated with oil used for cooling the
drilling tools.