The Aluminum Extruders Council is dedicated to helping designers, engineers, architects, manufacturers and others realize the advantages of designing with aluminum extrusions. From educational presentations to technical data, you will find information and helpful resources that reveal how aluminum extrusion is the better material process for materially better products.

Aluminum profiles can be found in a myriad of products—from windows and doors to electronic components to automobiles and beyond. But the true potential for extruded aluminum products has yet to be fully realized, limited only be the designer’s imagination. Aluminum profiles can help solve design challenges, reduce costs, improve product performance, and more. Aluminum extrusion offers designers a freedom from “standard” shape restrictions that is unrivaled among structural materials.

Review information and data that provides hard evidence that aluminum profiles can be the solution to your design challenges. And visit Market Sectors in the Extrusion Applications section of this website for even more application examples in the following sectors:

• Solar
• Building & Construction
• Transportation
• Engineered Products
  
  
  

Designing with Aluminum Extrusions
Download this presentation designed to assist engineers, architects, designers and others in understanding how to properly design products and structures utilizing aluminum extrusions. The presentation provides an exceptional overview of the advantages of aluminum and aluminum extrusions, information to help the designer to fully exploit the capabilities of the material, key design “hints” and a “primer” in some of the design considerations to take into account.

Using Aluminum Extrusions for Effective and Efficient Design
Download this valuable educational presentation that explains the economic, design, and performance advantages of using aluminum extrusions.
The presentation includes:

• Introduction
• Economic Advantages of Aluminum Extrusions
• Advantages of Aluminum
• Advantages of Aluminum Extrusions
• Overview of the Extrusion Process
• Corrosion Resistance
• Finishing / Fabricating Aluminum Extrusions
• Additional Information, Education and Training