Component
Aluminum
Primary and secondary aluminum metal smelted from alumina, used in chassis, cans, and motor housings.
Criticality
Medium
Unit cost
$2.4K
Quality
70 / 100
US completeness
72.0
Made in US
3,600,000 tonnes
Current demand
5,000,000 tonnes
US exports
288,000 tonnes
Opportunity score
32.4
Domestic vs international supply
Planned US investment, next 5 years
$1.1B
Expected extra output: 110,000 tonnes per year
Used by
- Aluminum chassis
- Aluminum cover
- Aluminum plate
- Aluminum shell
- Battery thermal pad
- Ceiling fan
- CMOS camera module
- Diesel engine
- Distribution transformer
- EV wall charger
- Eyeglasses
- Gasoline engine
- Heat-exchange coil
- Induction motor
- Insulating glass unit
- LED lamp
- LFP battery
- Magnetron
- NMC battery
- Piston air end
- Sacrificial anode
- Sodium-ion battery
- Thermoblock
- Transmission
Product paths
- Air compressor map
- Band saw map
- CNC router map
- Ceiling fan map
- Clothes dryer map
- Clothes iron map
- Commercial dryer map
- Commercial washer map
- Conveyor map
- Distribution transformer map
- Drill press map
- E-bike map
- EV wall charger map
- Elevator map
- Espresso machine map
- Eyeglasses map
- FDM 3D printer map
- Fabric cutter map
- Forklift map
- Fridge map
- Gas furnace map
- Generator map
- Geyser map
- HVAC rooftop unit map
- Heat pump map
- Home battery map
- Hydraulic press map
- Industrial pump map
- Industrial sewing machine map
- Insulating glass unit map
- LED lamp map
- Laptop map
- Lawn mower map
- Manual lathe map
- Manual mill map
- Microwave map
- Pallet jack map
- Passenger car map
- Power drill map
- Room air conditioner map
- Smartphone map
- Smoke alarm map
- Solar module map
- Surface grinder map
- Tablet map
- Vacuum cleaner map
- Washing machine map
- Wireless earbuds map