Alcoa Wins prestigious R&D award for new lightweight, high strength, damage-tolerant alloy

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(2007), "Alcoa Wins prestigious R&D award for new lightweight, high strength, damage-tolerant alloy", Pigment & Resin Technology, Vol. 36 No. 6. https://doi.org/10.1108/prt.2007.12936fab.034

Alcoa Wins prestigious R&D award for new lightweight, high strength, damage-tolerant alloy

Alcoa Wins prestigious R&D award for new lightweight, high strength, damage-tolerant alloy July 11, 2007: New York, NY - Alcoa announced that a team of its research scientists and engineers has received an R&D 100 Award for the development of a new generation of aluminum-CO2 for the aerospace industry. The R&D 100 Awards are given annually in recognition of the world's most significant technological innovations.

“Alcoa's investment in science and technology has historically set our company apart,” said Dr Mohammad A. Zaidi, Executive Vice President, Market Strategy, Technology and Quality. “I congratulate our dedicated team for a job well done. Alcoa's investment and commitment to research and development, spurred by the needs of our customers, has enabled our innovative technical community to bring to highly- valued new products and processes to the marketplace.”

Alcoa has received more than one dozen R&D 100 awards throughout the years. The award-winning product, aluminum alloy 2099, has characteristics that have played a pivotal role in helping the aerospace industry meet the increasingly stringent mission requirements for structural efficiency, weight-reduction, sustainability and cost.

Since, its commercial arrival in 2006, aluminum alloy 2099 products are creating significant benefits for aerospace industry stakeholders, our environment, and air travelers by:

^• enabling increased fuel efficiency and producing less CO2 emissions;

^• reducing the cost of ownership and use; and

^• improving the durability, reliability, and safety performance of aircraft.

The commercialization of aluminum alloy 2099 required coordination between Alcoa's global technology organization and Alcoa's production facilities to meet aggressive customer timelines, demonstrating Alcoa's ability to take technology from the lab through operating plants to deliver a product to the customer.

Widely recognized by industry, government and academia as a mark of excellence for the most innovative ideas of the year, the R&D 100 Awards are the only industry-wide competition for practical applications of science. The award-winning technologies and products are selected by the editors of R&D Magazine and a panel of outside experts. Awards are based on each achievement's technical significance, uniqueness and usefulness compared to competing projects and technologies. Past winners include the automated teller machine (1973), the fax machine (1975), the Nicoderm antismoking patch (1992), and HDTV (1998). This year's winners will be recognized in the September issue of R&D Magazine and during a ceremony in October.