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Translating Ideas Into Shapes
Aluminum extrusion dies can be made to form a wide array of shapes and sizes.
Understanding product requirements
Effectively translating customer product requirements into extruded, fabricated and finished components is one of the daily challenges facing experienced die engineering professionals. It’s a process that starts with extensive information gathering followed by an evaluation of how the shape fits into the customer’s manufacturing plans. To that end, a checklist of product and specification details is required from the customer before engineering can quote a shape. These include: alloy type, cut length, finish required, exposed surfaces, size of order, yearly volume and end use of product.
The extrusion die is a steel disk (typically H13 tool steel) with the intended cross-section of the final extruded product cut through it. Dies are broadly grouped as solid dies, which produce solid shapes, and hollow dies, which produce hollow or semi-hollow shapes. Combinations of a solid, semi-hollow and/or hollow shape may be incorporated into a single die. | |
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