Cupronickel Ingot is the one-to-one copper-and-nickel alloy of the Ala Industrial mod for Minecraft 26.2, and the Alloy Smelter is its only source: load one copper ingot and one nickel ingot into any two input slots, and 150 ticks (about 7.5 seconds) later the machine hands over exactly one ingot for 1200 EU. There is no cupronickel ore to mine, and a vanilla furnace will not smelt the pair — the alloy exists only through the machine. Both ingredients are read through the common tags c:ingots/copper and c:ingots/nickel, so copper and nickel ingots from other mods are accepted exactly like the mod's own, and the finished ingot is itself tagged c:ingots/cupronickel for the same cross-mod compatibility.

In material terms Cupronickel Ingot is the gentlest way to spend nickel: one cheap copper ingot per alloy ingot, against the two iron ingots that Invar costs, while the nickel bill stays at one ingot either way. Note the melting loss — two ingots go in and one comes out, which is deliberate for every alloy of the smelter and the reason one ingot carries the full 1200 EU price against 600 EU per ingot for Bronze. In the current release no recipe in Ala Industrial consumes cupronickel yet: alloy plates, tools and components are planned as separate work, so smelt on demand instead of stockpiling — nickel is still wanted by the Electronic Circuit. The alloy itself is also known as melchior, the classic copper-nickel blend.