Chesapeake Composites Corporation is a private company founded to develop, manufacture, and market low-cost, high-performance dispersion strengthened aluminum composites - DSC Aluminum- to the growing worldwide demands within the transportation (initial target markets - diesel and high-performance piston manufacturers) and precision and thermal components industries. Chesapeake's DSC Aluminum - is a unique, low-cost, patented, machinable aluminum for elevated temperature and critical stiffness applications. DSC Aluminum is a high-performance synthetic metal system that uniquely combines the enhanced elevated temperature strength, toughness and ductility of dispersion-strengthened (DS) alloys with the stiffness and low thermal expansion of metal matrix composites (MMCs). Chesapeake's DSC Aluminum solves a multitude of problems inherent in current high-performance composite materials.