Aluminium - Enriching A Billion Lives

We're back with the second post on the history of the wonder metal - Aluminium. Thanks for coming back. Let's roll forward on our journey and check out the important milestones that shaped our history.   Read our first post in this series here . 1886: The electrolytic process of extracting aluminium used today in some smelters was invented by two scientists –   Charles Martin Hall  and Paul Louis-Toussaint Héroult . The former was a French scientist and the later, an American chemist. The duo invented and even patented this process at the same time while working independently. The scientific world gave recognition to both by calling this the Hall-Héroult Process of aluminium extraction. We’d totally watch a movie made on this! The Hall - Héroult duo 1888: Charles Hall and his partners founded a smelter in Kensington, Pennsylvania, which extracted aluminium using the process invented by Hall himself. Initially, the company churned out 22....

Packaging is perhaps the first impression for many products across the world. Packaging may include the shape, size, design and carries the visual identity of the brand with it.  See them anywhere, you will be instantly able to identify the product and in some cases even the brand. Take for example these products: 1 2 Have you guesses them correctly? We’re sure you would have. That is the power of a good packaging asset for a company. Innovation in packaging vastly improves the quality and functionality of certain products. When the milk companies were grappling with the complaints for milk turning sour and unhealthy, tetrapak packaging came to the rescue. No longer did people have to keep milk under supervision like they did earlier. Tetra pak containers Paper, plastic, glass and other materials have been used for packaging products since a long time. However, the revolution came with the arrival of aluminum as a medium. No longer did one have to w...

Aluminium is omnipresent! Since its discovery, Aluminium has been at the core of human development stories across the globe. It is quite a feat actually how a metal not occurring in purest form in nature can be crafted into a multi utility super metal within just one and half centuries of development. Just to give you a glimpse of its beauty, here's a full aluminum body which is the talk of the entire world The Apple iPhone To school kids, this might seem a bit mundane. They have been memorizing this since their class 6 chemistry books featured it in schools. Aluminium - 'Al' But there’s more to it than just the numbers. Let’s come outside the textbooks and into the real world. Here are some really interesting facts that will open your minds towards the history of the silvery shiny metal’s usage. As the metal resembled silver and it was light and expensive, during Napoleon III’s reign, aluminium was considered an elite material intended for o...