The demand of the automotive industry for light, compact and efficient heat exchangers have led to aluminium becoming the material of choice for this challenging task. Aluminum through the design of a variety of alloy combination offers unique properties such as anti-corrosion, high strength and long life properties are particularly valuable for the cars to reduce CO 2 emissions.
Setting new category standards
In order to address the demanding market of heat exchanger (HE) applications, Elval SA and UACJ joined forces forming the UACJ Elval heat exchanger materials GmbH company. This company is offering to global customers high-end product solutions and services to the automotive industry,i.e. the heavy equipment, truck, train and bus manufacturers.
- Elval S.A. is one of the leading producers of flat rolled aluminium products in the world, offering world-class quality and services, operating state of art production facilities with highly qualified and experienced engineers and scientists.
- UACJ Corp. is one of the top three aluminium rolling companies in the world and leader in the production of brazing strips for the Heat Exchanger (HE) industry. UACJ is renowned for its manufacturing capabilities which include precision thickness technologies of the highest standard as well as original research for brazing strips.
The joint venture allows the company UACJ Elval Heat Exchanger Materials GmbH to benefit from the companies’ expertise, R&D and the full capability range (bare and clad, thick and narrow, DC or CC) manufacturing capabilities, so it can offer a full production brazing package serving all European and global markets with premium material for radiators, evaporators, condensers, oil-coolers, etc for cars, as well as other heat exchanger applications. Its main strength is the strategic alliance with UACJ –market leader in this market with advanced R&D, close to the leading HE manufactures and the state of the art of material processing techniques and technology. Currently through this JV, Elval is offering bare and clad materials with 2 or 3 layer alloys.