| Today's escalating costs and expenses have lead | | | | strength to weight feature of aluminum tubing |
| to more and more people using cost effective | | | | that makes aluminum tubing a better choice when |
| materials for construction and other purposes. | | | | compared to copper and steel tubings. The main |
| One such cost effective metal is aluminum, which | | | | disadvantages of using these tubings is that they |
| is found in abundance on earth. | | | | weigh three times more than aluminum, and are |
| Aluminum is a metal that is not only strong; it is | | | | very much less malleable than aluminum. |
| also malleable, light in weight and a great | | | | Aluminum and aluminum tubing can be shaped and |
| conductor of both heat and electricity. All these | | | | bent to any design, without additional expenditure. |
| characteristics of aluminum make it the preferred | | | | It is because aluminum tubing works as a heat |
| metal for use in aluminum tubing. | | | | shield with its heat absorption characteristics, it is |
| It is particularly designers who prefer using | | | | used extensively in the automotive and |
| aluminum tubings in their designs as these tubings | | | | construction fields. |
| can be bent and designed as per the specifications | | | | Aluminum tubings are not only cylindrical in shape, |
| of their design. There are no limitations to the | | | | but they can also be square in shape. They also |
| creativity of the designer as they can design and | | | | tend to differ in their outer and inner diameters, |
| create as they wish instead of designing based on | | | | and their alloy type. This is why it is better to |
| the available material. | | | | consider pressure rating, maximum bend radius |
| Cost effective production of aluminum tubing | | | | and temperature range when choosing aluminum |
| It is through a cost effective extrusion process | | | | tubing for your individual applications. |
| that aluminum tubing is created. The reason this | | | | Heat treat aluminum tubings for use in high |
| process is considered to be cost effective is | | | | temperatures |
| because not much goes to waste during its | | | | If the aluminum tubing is to be used in |
| production. Moreover, the dies used here cost | | | | environments with high temperatures, then it is |
| only a few hundred dollars, unlike other dies and | | | | important to ensure that the tubing is heat |
| casts that cost thousands of dollars. | | | | treated. This is because though aluminum works |
| In addition to this, unlike other dies, the dies used | | | | well in low temperature, it has to be heat treated |
| for making aluminum tubing is reusable. This in turn | | | | to use in high temperatures. |
| helps save in production costs with less wastage | | | | Another reason designer love using aluminum |
| and longer shelf life. | | | | tubing in their work is because they can be easily |
| Though there are standard dies used for creating | | | | colored chemically and electronically. This is |
| aluminum tubing, the malleable characteristic of | | | | because aluminum is a metal that naturally lets |
| aluminum makes it possible to create tubings of | | | | itself be colored. |
| various designs following a constant strength to | | | | And with it being easy to connect aluminum tubing |
| weight proportion. | | | | using nuts, bolts and rivets, it is today the most |
| Aluminum tubings come in various shapes | | | | preferred metal and material used in most |
| In fact, it can be said that it is this constant | | | | industries and by many designers. |