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Reports that L.A. Aluminum Casting Co. of Hayden, Idaho is helping the University of Idaho's Future Truck Team to fine-tune a heat treatment for an aluminum casting that is part of the prototype to be entered in the Future Truck competition. Reengineered Ford Explorer truck that will use AC induction to supplement power during deceleration; Sand casting of aluminum manufactured by D8 Inc. that the University team brought.

Focuses on heat treatment processes for contaminated aluminium in Europe. Description of the method developed in Moscow, Russia, which result in the production of the aluminium alloy, ASF01; Details on th melt crystallization process developed in the Netherlands; Detail on the Norwegian process for producing aluminium alloys about 150 degrees above most aluminium alloys.