SN EN 12258-1 : 2012

Foreword
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Materials and products
    3.1 Aluminium
    3.2 Alloys, alloying elements and impurities
    3.3 Materials and products
    3.4 Unwrought products, excepting castings
    3.5 Castings
    3.6 Strip
    3.7 Sheet and plate
    3.8 Foil and finstock
    3.9 Rolled products of special shape or specified
          by end use
    3.10 Profiles
    3.11 Rods/bars
    3.12 Wire
    3.13 Tubes
    3.14 Other extruded and/or drawn products, specified
          by the end use
    3.15 Forgings and forging stock
4 Technical and metallurgical processes, excluding
    surface treatment
    4.1 Casting and allied finishing operations
    4.2 Thermal treatment
    4.3 Ageing
    4.4 Annealing
    4.5 Quenching
    4.6 Thermal treatment for specific purpose
    4.7 Working, general terms
    4.8 Rolling and finishing
    4.9 Extrusion, drawing and finishing
    4.10 Forging
    4.11 Forming of semi-finished products
    4.12 Other metallurgical terms
5 Surface treatment and surface finish
    5.1 Electrochemical treatment
    5.2 Chemical treatment
    5.3 Coating
    5.4 Mechanical surface treatment
    5.5 Surface finish
6 Sampling, testing and packaging
    6.1 Sampling units
    6.2 Preparation of test-pieces
    6.3 Tests
    6.4 Geometrical product characteristics
    6.5 Other product characteristics
    6.6 Dimensions and tolerances
    6.7 Marking, packaging and delivery
7 Imperfections and defects
    7.1 General terms
    7.2 Imperfections, mainly mechanical
    7.3 Imperfections, mainly metallurgical
    7.4 Imperfections, mainly chemical
    7.5 Typical terms for unwrought products
    7.6 Typical terms for rolled products
    7.7 Typical terms for extruded products and forgings
    7.8 Typical terms for foil
8 Glossary
    8.1 English-German-French
    8.2 French-English-German
    8.3 German-English-French

Specifies general terms helpful for communicating within the aluminium industry and its customers, relating to products of aluminium and aluminium alloys.