In August 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced brand new mileage standards for commercial vehicles, prompting transportation vehicle manufacturers to look deeper into the advantages and properties of aluminum to help expand their ability to meet the federal government’s demands. The challenge was to design commercial vehicles that could accommodate a 20 percent reduction […] Read more »

There are many different industries that are served by the advantages associated with custom aluminum extrusion. There are many ways to customize aluminum industry solutions, either through secondary operations, such as sawing and deburring, to finishing services, such as painting aluminum products to provide even greater durability and protection. The focus of this article is […] Read more »

While many people outside of the industry might not know what the term “extrusion” means, absolutely everyone has used products that were created by the process of extrusion and fabrication. Aluminum fabrication shops work with many different industries nationwide to create quality standard and custom aluminum products that are used in some pretty surprising ways. […] Read more »

Lightweight, malleable, durable and strong – those are just some of the words that are used to describe aluminum. There are many advantages of using aluminum, which is why it has been embraced by just about every industry around the world. Friendly to the environment, abundant and plentiful, aluminum is one of the most recycled […] Read more »

While aluminum is the most abundant metal in the world, it is still second in usage only to iron. Iron has been used much longer than aluminum in industry, but the natural properties of aluminum and it’s ability to be strengthened and used in so many ways are making it more attractive to new industries […] Read more »

Extruded aluminum has so many advantages compared to other metals and other processes. It is easy to fabricate and assemble, providing the means for effective design of extrusions that can be used to simplify the use of the products. There are many different fabrication processes and secondary operations that are used frequently in the production […] Read more »

When explaining extrusion and fabrication to someone who has never heard of it before, there are two common examples that most people give. The first is the visual of squeezing toothpaste out of a tube. The pressure that is applied at the closed end forces the past through the open end to create the shape […] Read more »

Custom aluminum extrusion has changed the way that people live. That might sound like an overstatement, but the modern processing and use of aluminum has greatly improved the lives of people all over the world. There are many benefits of aluminum products that many people don’t even realize and aluminum fabrication shops help make it […] Read more »

One of the biggest advantages to using aluminum in the manufacture of parts, pieces and products is that it extremely versatile and flexible. The are an unlimited number of different ways that aluminum can be used across just about every industry imaginable. Aluminum extrusion has made it possible for this amazing metal to be used […] Read more »

One of the most used metals in the world, aluminum is also the most commonly recycled metal on the planet. It gains an advantage over other metals in that it can be 100 percent recycled, meaning that it can be recycled over and over again without losing its inherent properties. That not only makes it […] Read more »