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16
On the Road
Harley-Davidson®Motor
Co.’s new cruiser-class
V-Rod™cycle, named
Best Motorcycle Design
of the Year at the 2001
Paris Motorcycle Show,
takes full advantage of
Alcoa’s 6022-T4 bright
and highly formable
aluminum sheet. Alcoa
worked with Harley-
Davidson supplier
American Trim on sever-
al parts for the V-Rod.
Electrical distribution
systems from Alcoa
Fujikura Ltd. (AFL) are
helping power several
members of Harley-
Davidson’s Dyna Glide
and Touring families of
motorcycles. AFL also
will provide wiring for
Buell Motorcycle Co.’s
new Firebolt™XB9R
cycle. Buell is owned by
Harley-Davidson.
Forgings for
Airbus
Airbus awarded a
number of titanium
and aluminum die forg-
ing contracts to Alcoa
Wheel and Forged
Products for its A-380
program, including
structural wing and
fuselage components.
A wing component will
be one of the largest
closed-die aluminum
forgings ever made.
Windows of
Opportunity
Alcoa’s Hernando,
Miss. soft-alloy extru-
sion plant, a recent
addition to Alcoa’s
Kawneer architectural
aluminum building
products business, is
expanding capabilities
in the hung commercial
window market. The
$16 million expansion
includes improved
extrusion, painting, and
anodizing capabilities,
new fabricating lines,
and state-of-the-art
emissions controls.
USWA
Agreement
Alcoa forged new five-
year labor agreements
with the United Steel-
workers of America
(USWA). The contracts,
covering 12,000
employees in 19 U.S.
operating locations, are
retroactive to June 1,
2001, run through
May 31, 2006, and
include reopener provi-
sions in May 2005.
These agreements extend
and amend contracts
originally scheduled to
expire May 31, 2002.
Stamp of Quality
Alcoa’s Southern Graph-
ic Systems (SGS) played
a key role in the record-
breaking production
of a new 34 cent U.S.
stamp commemorating
September 11. The
stamp, featuring a
U.S. flag and the motto,
“United We Stand,”
was released nationwide
in November. SGS’s
speed in producing
color separations and
printing cylinders for the
U.S. Bureau of Engrav-
ing and Printing and its
prepress analysis of the
Bureau’s equipment
performance helped
compress what is nor-
mally an 18 month
process into fewer than
two months.
The Wright Stuff
Alcoa’s Michigan
Casting Center added
its technical knowledge
to efforts currently
under way to fly a
replica of Wilbur and
Orville Wright’s Flyer,
the aircraft that opened
the era of manned
flight. The original Flyer
was built of wood,
sheathed with alu-
minum-painted cloth,
and powered by a four-
cylinder engine with
cast iron cylinders
threaded into an alu-
minum block. The alu-
minum was supplied
by The Pittsburgh
Reduction Company –
now Alcoa. Working
from a block cast
from the original tool-
ing, photographs, and
dimensional sketches,
Casting Center employ-
ees “reverse engineered”
Joanne Sore,
Exeter, UK
Ana Kelly Mara de Araujo,
Itapissuma, Brazil
Lindsay Cooper, Richmond, Virginia, USA
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