Aluminium Circle Sheets 1060 for Cookware Properties

It’s said that aluminum cookware takes up an increasing larger market share in the cookware industry. Aluminium circle serves as the main raw material for aluminum cookware. It can be made into pots, kettles, pressure cookers, food washing basins etc. Aluminium circle sheets for cookware include alloys of  1050, 1060, 1070, 1100, 3003, 5052 and 8011. Aluminium circle 1060 contains an aluminum content of 99.6%. With a weak strength in comparison with 3003 and 5052, it’s widely applied in products requiring little about strength, including sign panels, billboards, kitchen sinks, lamp holders, electronic parts, chemical instruments, clock discs, nameplates, deep drawing or spinning concave utensils as well as cookwares.

Properties of aluminium circle sheets 1060 for cookware include light weight, good tensile strength, fast heat conductivity and excellent corrosion resistance. Aluminium circle 1060 weighs only one third of steel and copper discs of the same thickness and size. In other words, it takes much less effort to carry aluminum cookware than cookware of other metals. In comparison to copper and iron, aluminum have a better tensile strength, which makes it especially suitable for key cookware manufacturing processes like spinning and deep drawing. Aluminium circle sheets for cookware has a poorer heat conductivity than copper but much faster conductivity than iron and steel. As for corrosion resistance, stainless steel ranks the first, and aluminum obtains a fame for being corrosion resistant because it’s so active that it forms a protective layer of oxide aluminum quickly with oxygen in the air, keeping inner aluminum away from oxygen. Based on the information above, copper has the best heat conductivity and satisfying tensile strength. Why is there few cookware made of copper, then? Because it’s too heavy and expensive to become a popularized industrial material. On the other hand, aluminum has a cheaper price and excellent integrated properties, becoming a mainstream material for cookware second only to steel.