Zamak (formerly trademarked as ZAMAK and also known as Zamac)'s a family of alloys with a base metal of zinc and alloying elements of aluminium, magnesium and copper. Zamak alloys are part of the zinc aluminium alloy family; they're distinguished from the other ZA alloys because of their constant 4% aluminium composition. These alloys are most commonly die cast. Zamak avoided this by the use of 99.99% pure zinc metal, produced by New Jersey's use of a refluxer as part of the smelting process. Za… (More on Zamak)