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8
Technical Challenge
Winner of the Business Week/
Architectural Record
“Designed for Success” Award,
the University of Toronto’s
Terrence Donnelly Centre for
Cellular and Biomolecular
Research presented several
technical challenges for the
design team. The project
required painstaking engineer-
ing to make the building
air and watertight and house
the necessary mechanical
functions. Kawneer became
involved early in the project,
and using its Modified 2500
PreGlaze Wall®, GLASSvent™
Window and ISOPORT®
Window products, the team
was able to overcome the
technical issues.
Alcoa, Leno, GM
Team Up
Alcoa collaborated with Jay
Leno’s Big Dog Garage, a
custom car shop owned by U.S.
television personality Jay Leno,
and GM’s Advanced Design
studio on Leno’s new EcoJet.
Alcoa provided engineering
expertise and space frame
technology as well as high-
performance forged aluminum
wheels for the biodiesel-
fueled car.
EZ Grip
Supermarkets are now selling
Kraft’s Maxwell House, Sanka
and Yuban instant coffee
brands topped with the new
EZ Grip closure developed by
Kraft and manufactured by
Alcoa CSI. It’s the first launch
by a major consumer goods
company of a package using
Alcoa’s 2-shot molded technol-
ogy to provide high grip ability.
This creates a unique lid, with
a softer rubber-like material
applied to the gripping surface,
that is easy to open and closes
tight to keep in freshness.
The EZ Grip is approved by
the Arthritis Foundation’s
Ease-of-Use Program.
New Wheel Plant in
Monterrey
Alcoa Wheel Products Mexico
is the newest facility to produce
the Dura-Bright®with XBR™
technology line of forged
aluminum wheels. The facility
began operating earlier this
year and will serve customers
primarily in the U.S., Latin
America and Mexico. The
plant is currently shipping
wheels to Europe to help
shorten lead times there for
Dura-Bright®wheels, until a
new line is operational in
Hungary in 2008.
North
America