sc ti b hf be cr mn fe co and ni 34 a 34 ranges from about 0 05 0 75 at 34 b 34 ranges from about 9 0 17 75 at 34 c 34 ranges from about 0 45 8 5 at 34 d 34 ranges from about 0 05 13 at and the balance being aluminum plus incidental impurities in use of the process of the invention as described hereinabove it has been found that certain disadvantages such as metal surface blistering gumming of the equipment and the inability to friction actuate extrude aluminum alloys with enhanced properties have been overcome when extruding aluminum alloy from aluminum alloy powder by conventional process the aluminum alloy powder must be vacuum degassed at some elevated temperature to remove any gases on the powder surface which may outgas during consolidation fabrication or use and produce blistering on the metal surface the present process is particularly advantageous in that no degassing of the powder in feed is required prior to friction actuated extrusion and the extruded product requires no outgasing thirty kilogram batches of 40 mesh u s standard sieve powder of the composition aluminum balance 4 33 at iron 0 33 at vanadium and 1 72 at silicon were produced by comminuting rapidly solidified planar flow cast ribbon the comminuted ribbon was friction actuated extruded to approximately 3mm diameter ribbon using a conform machine of the type described in uk pat no 2 069 389b the resulting extruded wire is shown in fig1 the surface of the wire is bright and.