Novelis Inc. has launched a new range of bright finish aluminium sheet products from its Bresso plant in Milan, Italy. Following intensive engineering and qualification work, the company is supplying this highly-reflective material in both lacquered and uncoated specialty finishes for a variety of consumer and industrial markets.

Bright finish aluminium sheet is widely used in applications such as lighting, cosmetics packaging, automotive, ceilings, refrigerators and packaging closures.

The Guala Closures Group, a leading international producer of aluminium closures for bottles, recently used Novelis bright sheet to produce an attractive closure solution, called "1235 Antiriempimento," for Absolut Vodka bottles.

The new product range includes lacquered and uncoated specialty bright sheet in a number of alloys. Thicknesses range from 0.25 mm to 1 mm, and widths of up to 1,250 mm are available.

Novelis is also working on extending the bright sheet range using the company's Novelis FusionTM technology, launched last year. This breakthrough technology, which simultaneously casts multiple alloy layers into aluminium ingots, enables Novelis to manufacture sheet products with previously unattainable combinations of features. "A bright sheet product using Novelis Fusion material could replace traditionally-clad material in some applications, offering superior combinations of core material strength and special surface characteristics for anodizing applications," said Emilio Braghi, general manager for Novelis in Italy.