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Aluminum Association
The Aluminum Association is the main U.S. trade association representing the aluminum industry—covering primary production, value-added products, recycling, and key suppliers. It acts as the industry’s “front door” for advocacy, industry data/statistics, and technical insight, and it says its member companies account for about 70% of the aluminum and aluminum products shipped in North America.
A big practical reason engineers and buyers run into the Aluminum Association is standards and alloy designations. The Association serves as the secretariat/administrator for the American National Standards Institute H35 committee and is tied to the ANSI H35.1 / H35.1M designation system that governs alloy and temper naming/registration (the “AA 6061-T6” style nomenclature).
The Association’s own history materials describe roots in 1933 (during the New Deal era) and note it reorganized into the Aluminum Association “as we know it today” in 1935, with an early official meeting held in October 1935.
