Upper Burrell center continues to serve as innovation hub for Alcoa successor Arconic Corp.
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David Hrabovsky, an Arconic senior technician from Ford City, prepares to test a piece of aluminum in a machine that simulates a manufacturing process and measures the stress it can withstand before breaking. The machine is in the forming lab within Building A at the Arconic Technology Center in Upper Burrell.
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Shawn Sullivan, managing director of the Arconic Technology Center, explains a test on aluminum in the center’s forming lab.
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Tony Fedusa, an Arconic technologist from Cranberry, prepares to perform a weld test on aluminum in Building A at the Arconic Technology Center in Upper Burrell.
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Bret Dunlap of Murrysville, a senior engineer in materials characterization with Arconic, explains how examining the crystalline microstructure of aluminum can predict when and how it will crack.
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Marty Marinack, an Arconic senior fabrication technology manager from Marshall, explains how they use a simulation to digitally analyze the casting of aluminum ingots, with the goal of mitigating cracking.
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Shawn Sullivan, managing director of the Arconic Technology Center, shows a mock-up of an aluminum Ford F-150 on display in Building A at the Upper Burrell facility. Technology used in the creation of the aluminum pickup, released in 2015, was developed at what was then the Alcoa Technical Center.
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Alcoa owns this building at the Arconic Technology Center in Upper Burrell. Alcoa first developed a carbon-free smelting process at this location, spokesman Jim Beck said.
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The exterior of Building A at the Arconic Technology Center in Upper Burrell on June 24, 2022. Completed in 1964, Building A was the first building at the then-Alcoa Technical Center. It is one of three buildings out of seven that Arconic continues to use, with the remaining four slated to be placed up for sale.
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Shawn Sullivan, managing director of the Arconic Technology Center in Upper Burrell, showcases an aluminum tailgate developed at the center.
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Elevator doors from the former Alcoa research park on Freeport Road in New Kensington are displayed in Building A at the Arconic Technology Center in Upper Burrell. Completed in 1964, Building A was the first building constructed at what previously was known as the Alcoa Technical Center before Alcoa’s separations led to the formation of Arconic and Howmet Aerospace.
