Not a few new learners would be confused by various names of aluminium alloys. There are aluminium sheet, plate, coil, circle, foil, slug and strip. If combined with tempering states and label numbers, aluminium alloys can be divided into hundreds of types. As a matter of fact, many types are connected with each other in production process. Take aluminium circle for example. It’s not obtained by a circle-shaped mould as some people might imagine, but by punching circles out of finished aluminium coils.
Manufacturers classify their products in such a confusing way to cater for different needs in market. If a pot manufacturer bought aluminium coil, rather than aluminium circle from his raw material supplier, he would have to make the coil into circles first, which adds a step to pot production than direct purchase of aluminium circle. An extra step means not only extra time, but extra cost for equipment.
Manufacturers’ supplying of aluminium circle enables their clients to further manufacture products conveniently. A piece of aluminium circle turns into a pot easily after being pressed by a moulding machine. In similar ways, it can also be made into other cookware parts like kettles, internal pot of electric cookers and non-stick pans. Outside the kitchen it turns into lamp covers, basins, buckets and capacitor housings. Although aluminium circle is regarded as raw material for household items in the industry, we can still spot it outside house. Take the “no parking” sign board in the street for example. Has it ever occurred to you that it’s made of aluminium? It’s amusing that most sign boards are round, just perfect for a traffic design. The manufacturers are so lazy that they would not even take trouble to change the shape of raw materials. Haomei Aluminum manufactures aluminium circles of various specifications. Welcome to contact april@aluminumhm.com for more information.