A lot of different choices are available for makers who need parts, goods, and components that will fit and work as planned when it comes to extrusion and fabrication of metal. Original extruded aluminum designs can be made to fit a wide range of needs, but it’s best to work with a company that has the skills, experience, training, and tools to do the job right. Silver City Aluminum has a strong reputation for making unique aluminum casting of the highest quality. Our aluminum extrusion designs are made from strong, long-lasting aluminum metals, and they are made to meet your needs or go beyond them.
Our engineers and techs at Silver City can help you get the results you want from the very beginning of the creation process. If we can start working with customers right away on making unique profiles for extrusion and manufacturing, the client is happier with the job when it’s over. For many years, we’ve been happy to provide standard and custom aluminum extrusion to customers in the northeast. We’ve also shipped our aluminum extrusion designs to customers all over the country and the world. We can create high-quality profiles, extrude aluminum, make things, do secondary processes, and finish them all for you.
Sustainable, Long-Lasting Aluminum
The form that is made from extruded metal is made with a tool called a profile or die. It is constructed from strong steel and is customized to meet the needs of the customer. It is used to help make a specific shape during the extrusion process. The die is made of strong steel so that it can be used over and over to fulfill the customer’s order. Extrusion is the process of shaping metal extrusion curves into any shape that you want. The raw materials, which can be made of different metal alloys based on the client’s needs, are fired and pushed through the die under a lot of pressure to make the shape that is wanted. At Silver City metal, the things we use are made of 99.9% reusable metal.
To keep costs down for our clients and cut down on waste, we cut the seven-inch-diameter billets of aluminum metal to the right size based on the profile’s length and weight. We heat the billets up ahead of time by putting them in a long oven. This gets them ready for the extrusion press and lets us heat them to the right level for the best results. At 10,000,000 pounds of pressure, the metal is pushed through the aluminum extrusion profiles. It will then run through the steel die to make the exact shape that our client wants. The same method is used for regular casting and making things. The hot metal that has been extruded is put on a 160-foot table to be stretched to the right size. We do this with stretchers facing each other. After being measured and cut to the right length, the metal is heated to make it as hard as it can be.
Custom Aluminum Extrusion Designs
When people call us to make custom forms out of aluminum extrusion, they can send us their order in both 2D and 3D file formats. AutoCAD is a very popular and well-known piece of software used by artists in a wide range of fields..dxf and.dwg files are used for 2D drawing. You can also use files from Inventor, Solidworks, and other famous 3D tools that use.stp and.iges file types. We can also use Adobe Acrobat.pdf files and scanned documents to get the measurements we need to correctly redraw the shape in a CAD software.
Our engineers and technicians can work with both new and current customers to develop a custom aluminum extrusion shape. This is for people who want to make their own unique aluminum extrusion profiles. Because we’ve been in business for a long time and know a lot about the products, we can help customers get the most out of each type. With some insight and tips, you can solve common problems that come up with tight tolerances, make parts that fit together perfectly, and even avoid surface flaws. Making small changes to the plan can make putting together finished extrusions work even better.
Finished Extrusions in Massachusetts
Call our team at 508-824-8631 if you want to know more about creating aluminum extrusion designs or to place an order for standard or custom aluminum extrusion. Silver City Aluminum is based in Taunton, Massachusetts, and sells high-quality extruded aluminum to people all over the United States and the world. Get a FREE quote on your next job from our team.