With more than 25 years of experience manufacturing aluminum profiles, we can give you the necessary input to create a profile, for which shape and function form a synthesis. We can help you choose the right material for the specific purpose.
Choice of material
Aluminum is a light metal, which can obtain high strength. Furthermore, aluminum possesses a number of qualities, which may often be incorporated in each profile solution and so contribute to an even better and more competitive product.
This applies for low weight & high strength, mouldability, good electrical & thermal conductivity, corrosion resistance and a high degree of design freedom.
Aluminum is the metal of most common occurence in nature, about 8 percent of the earth's crust consists of aluminum compounds. Aluminum oxide is extracted from the type of clay called bauxite and through an electrochemical process primary aluminium is extracted.
Aluminum is a very light metal with a density of only 2.7 kg/dm³, which is only one third of the density of steel. Even so aluminum may obtain high strenght by alloying primary aluminum with other types of metal.
Finally, aluminum has an enormous recycling advantage. Only 5% of the energy used for the extraction of primary aluminium is used for recycling aluminium. Recycled aluminium has the same characteristics and the same quality as primary aluminium.
