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The aluminum round pieces being packed

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0.5mm 1050 Aluminum Discs

I. Product Overview

The 0.5mm 1050 Aluminum Disc is a circular aluminum base material manufactured from national standard 1050 high-purity industrial pure aluminum alloy billets through high-precision cold rolling, precision stamping, and tempering processes.

The product boasts an aluminum purity strictly reaching ≥99.5%, with extremely low impurity content, placing its material purity at the forefront of the industry.

This ultra-thin aluminum disc features uniform thickness, a flat and smooth surface, excellent plasticity and ductility, stable thermal and electrical conductivity, and good atmospheric oxidation and corrosion resistance.

Processed via specialized rolling, stamping, and annealing tempering techniques, the plate surface is free from warping, waviness, or defects, with stable and uniform mechanical properties.

Consequently, it perfectly adapts to various secondary deep processing techniques such as deep drawing, spinning, precision bending, and stamping, offering a high qualification rate for forming without issues like cracking, wrinkling, or deformation.

As a core lightweight metal raw material in the light manufacturing sector, this product is widely used in household cookware, commercial lighting, precision electronics and appliances, food-grade packaging, industrial precision parts, and other mainstream industries.

Furthermore, it strictly adheres to domestic and international industrial production norms and food contact safety standards, meeting the bulk production and quality acceptance requirements of mid-to-high-end clients worldwide.

II. Core Product Parameters

2.1 Chemical Composition

To ensure superior performance,​ the chemical composition is strictly controlled as follows:

Alloying Element / Impurity Content Standard Performance Description
Aluminum (Al) ≥99.50% High-purity base material, effectively ensuring excellent deep drawing formability, thermal, and electrical conductivity.
Iron (Fe) ≤0.25% Strictly controlled to prevent excessive hardness, eliminating cracking during deep processing.
Silicon (Si) ≤0.15% Low silicon ratio optimizes plasticity, significantly enhancing precision processing performance like deep drawing and spinning.
Copper (Cu) ≤0.05% Minimal copper content effectively prevents oxidation discoloration, significantly improving corrosion and weather resistance.
Other Trace Impurities (Zn, Mn, Mg, Cr, etc.) Total ≤0.05% Strictly controlled impurity levels ensure strong batch-to-batch consistency and extremely high stability in physical/chemical properties.

2.2 Physical & Mechanical Properties

Complementing its chemical purity,​ the physical and mechanical properties are equally impressive:

Performance Indicator Parameter Value Parameter Description
Density 2.70 g/cm³ Outstanding lightweight advantage, effectively reducing the weight of finished products, suitable for various lightweight design needs.
Thermal Conductivity 226 W/(m·K) Excellent thermal conductivity, rapid and uniform heat transfer without local overheating or excessive temperature differences. Ideal for cookware and heat dissipation components.
Electrical Conductivity 61% IACS (International Annealed Copper Standard) Stable conductivity, uniform resistance, low loss, meeting long-term usage needs of small-to-medium electronic conductive parts.
Tensile Strength 75–150 MPa Controllable and adjustable with temper state; sufficient soft-tempered toughness or stable hard-tempered structure to meet various forming process strength requirements.
Elongation (O Soft State) ≥10% Excellent plasticity, high tolerance for stretch forming, significantly reducing deep processing scrap rates, suitable for high-difficulty integral forming processes.
Melting Point 660°C Good high-temperature resistance; no melting or deformation occurs under conventional heating, processing, or daily/working conditions.

III. Core Product Advantages

3.1 Exceptional Forming Performance

1050 high-purity aluminum is inherently soft with excellent plasticity, ranking among the best materials in the aluminum alloy series for formability.

Combined with the 0.5mm ultra-thin precision plate shape, it perfectly adapts to various high-precision, high-difficulty deep processing techniques, including deep drawing, high-speed spinning, precision bending, complex surface stamping, and integral forming.

The material exhibits uniform stress distribution, balanced force during stretching, and avoids common processing issues like local cracking, stretching wrinkles, or brittle edges.

Moreover, it can form various irregular curved surfaces, hollow thin-walled, and complex arc-shaped aluminum products in a single pass.

In addition, the product offers strong forming stability, with a mass production yield rate reaching over 98%, significantly reducing customer raw material loss and rework costs, making it suitable for automated assembly line production.

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3.2 Uniform & Stable Performance

This aluminum disc is produced using advanced industry-standard high-temperature homogenization heat treatment plus multi-pass precision cold rolling processes, completely eliminating issues like uneven internal grains and residual stress.

As a result, the internal structure is dense and uniform, with highly consistent physical properties.

The entire plate has minimal thickness error, high flatness, and is free from defects like local thickness variation, warping, or invisible waves.

Therefore, after secondary processing such as punching, stretching, bending, or polishing, finished products will not experience springback deformation, dimensional deviation, or plate distortion.

The dimensional accuracy, forming effect, and physical properties of each batch are highly consistent, perfectly meeting the standardized mass production requirements for high-end precision products, with batch stability far exceeding general industry standards.

3.3 Excellent Thermal & Electrical Conductivity

Relying on the ≥99.5% high-purity aluminum base material, the product possesses industry-leading thermal and electrical conductivity.

Specifically, it features fast heat conduction and uniform heat distribution without heat accumulation or significant local temperature differences, rapidly conducting and dissipating heat, thereby significantly improving the efficiency of heat exchange and cooling equipment.

Simultaneously, its stable conductivity, uniform resistance, and low conductive loss, coupled with good electromagnetic adaptability, meet the usage needs of various small-to-medium electronic conductive and heat dissipation components.

By contrast, compared to discs made from ordinary miscellaneous aluminum or recycled aluminum, this product’s thermal and electrical performance shows no attenuation or fluctuation, ensuring stable long-term performance without faults like abnormal heating or conductive failure.

3.4 Food-Grade Safety & Corrosion Resistance

The product uses brand-new virgin aluminum ingots as raw material, with no recycled scrap.

Furthermore, the production process is entirely dust-free, non-toxic, odorless, free of heavy metal residues, and without harmful chemical leaching. It fully complies with domestic and international food contact safety standards, allowing direct contact with food and beverages, making it safe and harmless for producing various food-contact products.

Additionally, the high-purity aluminum base material naturally possesses excellent oxidation resistance and corrosion resistance. Consequently, a dense oxide protective film spontaneously forms on the plate surface, effectively resisting air oxidation, humid environments, and mild acid/alkali corrosion.

It resists rusting, discoloration, or darkening during long-term storage and use, offering outstanding weather resistance.

3.5 Lightweight & High Cost-Effectiveness

The 0.5mm ultra-thin precision specification maximizes lightweight design for finished products. Thus, compared to thicker aluminum products or stainless steel items, it effectively reduces the weight of terminal products, lowering equipment load and transportation weight, aligning with current trends in lightweight and energy-saving product design.

In terms of performance, the product retains the excellent formability, thermal conductivity, and safety of 1050 pure aluminum, fully meeting the usage standards of various terminal products. Regarding cost, compared to higher-grade pure aluminums like 1060 and 1100 or various alloy aluminums, this product offers exceptional cost-effectiveness.

Raw material procurement costs are lower, processing tolerance is higher, and waste is minimized, effectively helping customers control production costs, enhance product market competitiveness, and suit large-scale industrial mass production.

3.6 Comparison with Other Common Aluminum Alloy Materials

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Currently, aluminum alloys commonly used for deep processing of discs mainly include 1060 pure aluminum, 3003 anti-rust aluminum, and 5052 magnesium-aluminum alloy.

The following table illustrates how​ these materials differ significantly in formability, hardness, corrosion resistance, price, and applicable scenarios. Notably, the table below provides a comprehensive comparison between this 0.5mm 1050 aluminum disc and mainstream alloys, clearly highlighting the adaptive advantages and cost-effectiveness of our product:

Comparison Item 1050 Pure Aluminum  1060 Pure Aluminum 3003 Anti-Rust Aluminum Alloy 5052 Magnesium-Aluminum Alloy
Material Purity Al ≥99.5%, High-purity virgin aluminum Al ≥99.6%, Purity slightly higher than 1050 Al-Mn alloy, contains Manganese, lower purity Al-Mg alloy, contains Magnesium, high-strength alloy
Forming/Drawing Performance Excellent, soft texture, good plasticity. No cracking/wrinkling in deep drawing/spinning. Ideal for 0.5mm ultra-thin precision forming. Excellent formability, close to 1050, but limited improvement in plasticity. Higher hardness, average plasticity, prone to cracking in deep drawing, unsuitable for complex curved surfaces. High hardness, strong rigidity, poor tensile toughness. Only suitable for simple bending/stamping, cannot deep draw.
Thermal/Electrical Conductivity Excellent, fast heat dissipation, uniform. Suitable for cookware, heat sinks. Slightly better than 1050, but improvement is insignificant. Average thermal conductivity, lower than pure aluminum series. Poor thermal/electrical conductivity, unsuitable for thermal/conductive products.
Corrosion Resistance Good, natural oxide protective film. Suitable for atmospheric, humid, food-contact scenarios. Similar corrosion resistance to 1050. Excellent, anti-rust properties, resistant to moisture and mild acid/alkali. Extremely strong, resistant to seawater and acid/alkali, suitable for harsh conditions.
Product Hardness Softer, adjustable hardness, high processing tolerance. Softer, overall hardness similar to 1050. Medium, better rigidity than pure aluminum, less prone to deformation. High hardness, high strength, extremely strong structural stability.
Price/Cost Highest cost-effectiveness, affordable, no premium, ideal for mass production. Slightly higher price than 1050, lower cost-effectiveness. Higher price than pure aluminum series, higher production cost. Expensive, high raw material cost, only for high-end structural parts.
Applicable Scenarios Cookware, lighting reflectors, food packaging, general electronic heat sinks. First choice for civilian light industrial deep processing. High-end conductive parts, precision heat sinks. Rust-proof containers, outdoor hardware, corrosion-resistant parts. High-strength structural parts, outdoor heavy industry, anti-corrosion equipment parts.

Summary of Advantages

In summary, compared to other alloy materials, the 0.5mm 1050 aluminum disc achieves the optimal balance in four core dimensions: ultra-thin forming performance, thermal uniformity, food-grade safety, and bulk procurement cost-effectiveness.

Specifically, for mainstream light industrial sectors like cookware, lighting, food packaging, and general electronic accessories, there is no need to use higher-cost alloys like 1060 or 5052, nor sacrifice forming performance by choosing 3003 alloy.

It is the material choice with the strongest comprehensive practicality and optimal cost for lightweight deep processing scenarios.

IV. Main Application Scenarios

4.1 Cookware Industry

This product serves as a core base material for household and commercial lightweight cookware.

Leveraging​ its core advantages of uniform heat conduction, food-grade safety, and easy stretch forming, it is widely used in the integral forming processing of various thin-walled cookware, including small household frying pans, flat-bottom soup pots, milk pans, pot lids, baking sheets, steamer bases, and fast-food aluminum cookware.

The product heats evenly, preventing issues like local scorching or uneven heating during cooking, making it suitable for high-temperature cookware applications. Meanwhile, the material is safe, non-toxic, and resistant to corrosion from daily acidic/alkaline foods.

After surface treatments like polishing or anodizing, it can be used long-term without oxidation or discoloration, fully meeting safety production and usage standards for household and commercial catering cookware.

4.2 Lighting & Decoration Industry

Due to​ its smooth and clean surface, suitability for deep processing, lightweight nature, and ease of coloring, this product is a mainstream raw material in the lighting decoration industry. It is primarily used to produce various indoor/outdoor lampshades, reflective concentrators, lighting decorative panels, light trays, lamp fixing bases, and lighting project decoration accessories.

The original surface boasts high smoothness and can be directly processed into high-gloss mirror finishes or matte decorative surfaces through mechanical polishing, anodizing, sandblasting, or coloring, significantly enhancing light reflectivity and illumination uniformity.

Simultaneously, the lightweight material greatly reduces the load-bearing pressure on lamp housings and mounting brackets, lowering the risk of installation failure, making it suitable for various lighting scenarios like home decoration, commercial fit-outs, and outdoor lighting projects.

4.3 Electronics & Electrical Industry

The product combines excellent heat dissipation, electrical conductivity, and shielding performance, making it suitable for processing various small-to-medium precision electronic and electrical accessories.

For instance, it can be used to manufacture LED lamp heat sinks, electronic product heat dissipation substrates, capacitor sealing bases, appliance electromagnetic shielding covers, conductive sealing gaskets, switch conductive parts, and small appliance housing liners.

Its rapid and uniform heat dissipation performance effectively dissipates heat generated by electronic devices, preventing issues like lagging, damage, or shortened lifespan caused by overheating.

Moreover, stable electrical conductivity ensures safe and stable power transmission for low-voltage accessories, while good shielding performance effectively blocks electromagnetic interference, comprehensively guaranteeing the long-term stable operation of electronic and electrical equipment.

4.4 Food Packaging & Daily Goods Industry

This product complies with global food-grade environmental safety standards, with no harmful substance leaching, a clean and impurity-free surface, and excellent formability.

Therefore, it serves as a high-quality base material for the food and daily chemical packaging industry, mainly used for stamping disposable aluminum food trays, fresh-keeping lunch box blanks, baking food packaging liners, candy/snack packaging inserts, cosmetic round packaging bases, and daily chemical sealing caps.

It adapts to high-speed stamping production lines for mass production; after forming, the edges are smooth and the sealing is effective, meeting the needs for food preservation and daily chemical moisture protection. Additionally, through deep processing techniques like lamination, coloring, and printing, personalized packaging designs can be achieved, suiting diversified and high-end packaging production requirements.

4.5 Industrial Supporting Parts

Relying on stable mechanical properties, excellent corrosion resistance, and easy processing characteristics, this product can be processed into various light industrial supporting components, widely used in light manufacturing, equipment support, chemical anti-corrosion, instrumentation, and other fields.

Common applications include​ mechanical equipment sealing gaskets, metal decorative signs, instrument panel backing plates, small anti-corrosion container liners, equipment dust covers, and hardware stamping parts.

The product resists mild chemical corrosion, does not easily oxidize or rust, and offers strong dimensional stability. As a result, it can be used long-term in conventional industrial environments without deformation, damage, or failure, meeting the standardized production needs of various light industrial parts.

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V. Why Choose Henan Huawei Aluminum Co., Ltd.

5.1 Company Profile & Experience

Henan Huawei Aluminum is a professional aluminum disc manufacturer with over 20 years of deep cultivation in the aluminum processing industry.

Located in​ a renowned domestic aluminum industry base, we leverage a mature aluminum industry chain, comprehensive production facilities, and cutting-edge processing technologies, focusing on the R&D, production, and sales of high-quality 1050 pure aluminum discs.

5.2 Advanced Production & Quality Control

The company possesses standardized large-scale production workshops and a complete set of precision cold rolling, CNC stamping, and heat treatment tempering automation equipment.

We reject​ extensive processing models, achieving high-precision, high-stability, and high-yield mass production of aluminum discs, with particular expertise in the standardized production of 0.5mm ultra-thin precision aluminum discs, perfectly meeting the deep processing needs of industries like cookware, lighting, electronics, and food packaging.

Our factory is equipped with a professional quality inspection team and a robust quality control system, implementing rigorous full-process testing from raw material selection and production processing to finished product delivery.

In doing so, we strictly control product thickness tolerance, surface quality, and mechanical properties, eliminating common issues like batch color differences, uneven thickness, or forming cracks.

5.3 Competitive Advantages & Services

Relying on the direct-operated model of a source factory, without middlemen markups, we offer customers cost-effective original factory supply. Besides, we support flexible order services such as small-batch sampling, large-volume customization, and expedited production scheduling.

With years of deep cultivation in both foreign trade and the domestic mid-to-high-end market, our products have passed multiple international environmental and food-grade safety certifications, are exported to numerous countries and regions worldwide, and have accumulated mature experience in production, packaging, logistics, and after-sales. Ultimately, we comprehensively guarantee procurement quality and delivery timeliness for our customers, providing one-stop aluminum material procurement solutions.

VI. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

6.1 Product Specifications & Performance

Q1: Is the 0.5mm 1050 aluminum disc safe for food contact?

A1: Yes, it is. The product is manufactured from virgin high-purity aluminum ingots, with no recycled scrap, non-toxic, and harmless. It complies with GB 4806.9 food contact safety standards and international environmental regulations, making it safe for use in cookware, food packaging, and other food-contact scenarios.

Q2: Can the product thickness tolerance meet high-precision deep processing requirements?

A2: Absolutely. The product thickness tolerance is strictly controlled within ±0.02mm. The plate thickness is uniform, the surface is flat, and it is free from internal stress. It is suitable for automated deep processing like deep drawing, spinning, and precision bending, offering stable batch forming and a high yield rate.

6.2 Customization & Logistics

Q3: Can you provide custom specifications and surface treatment services?

A3: Yes, we support full-dimensional customization. We can customize non-standard diameters, tolerances, and temper states. We also offer surface treatments such as polishing, sandblasting, anodizing, and lamination, along with custom packaging and deep processing support services.

Q4: How long is the product shelf life? Is it prone to oxidation or scratching during transport?

A4: Under standard dry storage conditions, the shelf life of unopened products can reach over 12 months. We use export-grade multi-layer protective packaging that is moisture-proof, shock-proof, and scratch-resistant, effectively preventing oxidation, collision, or deformation during transportation.

6.3 Quality Assurance & Order Flexibility

Q5: Can samples and quality inspection reports be provided?

A5: Yes, we support free sample testing. All shipped products come with original factory material reports, quality inspection reports, and environmental compliance certificates. Third-party retesting is supported, and quality is traceable.

Q6: How is the delivery cycle and order flexibility?

A6: Regular specifications are well-stocked for immediate shipment. Custom specifications are delivered within 3-7 working days. We support small-batch trial orders, large-volume mass production, and expedited production scheduling upon request. Orders are flexible with no minimum order quantity restrictions.

Properties of the aluminum circle:

Aluminum circle is suitable for many markets, including cookware, automotive and lighting industries, etc., thanks to good product characteristics:

  • Low anisotropy, which facilitates deep drawing
  • Strong mechanical properties
  • High and homogeneous heat diffusion
  • Ability to be enameled, covered by PTFE (or others), anodized
  • Good reflectivity
  • High strength-to-weight ratio
  • Durability and resistance to corrosion

Aluminum Circles Process

Ingot/Master Alloys — Melting Furnace – Holding Furnace — D.C. Caster — Slab —- Scalper — Hot Rolling Mill – Cold Rolling Mill – Punching – Annealing Furnace — Final Inspection – Packing — Delivery

  • Prepare the master alloys
  • Melting furnace: put the alloys into the melting furnace
  • D.C.cast aluminum ingot: To make the mother ingot
  • Mill the aluminum ingot: to make the surface and side smooth
  • Heating furnace
  • Hot rolling mill: made the mother coil
  • Colding rolling mill: the mother coil was rolled as the thickness you want to buy
  • Punching process: become the size what you want
  • Annealing furnace: change the temper
  • Final inspection
  • Packing: wooden case or wooden pallet
  • Delivery

Quality Control

Assurance Below inspection will be done in the production.

  • a. ray detection—RT;
  • b. ultrasonic testing—UT;
  • c. Magnetic Particle Testing-MT;
  • d. penetration testing-PT;
  • e. eddy current flaw detection-ET

1) Be free from Oil Stain, Dent, Inclusion, Scratches, Stain, Oxide Discoloration, Breaks, Corrosion, Roll Marks, Dirt Streaks, and other defects which will interfere with use.

2) Surface without black line, clean-cut, periodic stain, roller printing defects, such as other gko internal Control standards.

Aluminum discs packing:

Aluminum circles can be packed by export standards, covering with brown paper and plastic film. Finally, the Aluminium Round is fixed on a wooden pallet/wooden case.

  • Put the driers side the aluminum circle, keep the products dry and clean.
  • Use clean plastic paper, pack the aluminium circle, keep good sealing.
  • Use the snakeskin paper, pack the surface of the plastic paper, keep good sealing.
  • Next, there are two ways of packaging: One way is wooden pallet packaging, using the crusty paper packing the surface; Another way is wooden case packaging, using the wooden case packing the surface.
  • Finally, lay the steel belt on the wooden box’s surface, keeping the wooden box fastness and secure.

Aluminum circle of Henan Huawei Aluminum. meet the export standard. Plastic film and brown paper can be covered at customers’ needs. What’s more, a wooden case or wooden pallet is adopted to protect products from damage during delivery. There are two kinds of packaging, which are eye to wall or eye to the sky. Customers can choose either of them for their convenience. Generally speaking, there are 2 tons in one package, and loading 18-22 tons in 1×20′ container, and 20-24 tons in 1×40′ container.

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