tsc offers a range of technical training courses. We can deliver any of these courses as live online sessions, tailoring them to your needs. Alternatively courses can be held in person at your premises.
We offer courses in the following areas of technology:
Remelt and Casthouse | Extrusion Process | Rolling Process | Product Metallurgy
Tuesday 28th April 2026, starting at 14:00 (UK time), and weekly until 16th June 2026
This course comprises 8 weekly sessions, covering the major measures of aluminium molten metal quality important for wrought aluminium alloys: dissolved hydrogen, non-metallic inclusions and alkali metals. In each case, the course covers the origins of that impurity, and the downstream impacts if levels are too high. The measurement methods and their limitations are reviewed, before addressing the technologies available to reduce impurities to acceptable levels. Each session consists of a seminar and an associated workshop. The course can be attended as a standalone course or seen as the second in a trilogy of related courses. It is preceded by Scrap Recycling and Melting, and will be followed later in 2026 by DC Casting.
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Direct Chill Casting covers the technology of DC casting in 10 weekly sessions. Starting with metal distribution and metal level control, and the factors controlling shell zone formation, leading to low head casting (sheet ingot) and gas pressure assisted casting (billet). It also considers the principles of mould opening design and optimisation of ingot shape in steady-state. The transient behaviour at start-up is considered, and technologies to control butt curl (sheet ingot) and start up cracks discussed. An introduction to the metallurgy of solidification is also provided.