Aluminum Profiles

Hi, here i let you with an aluminum manufacturing video, it is in spanish but i take my time to translate it for you. It’s very interesting understand how aluminum products that surround us are manufacture. So, I hope to enjoy this video and learn a lot from it.

The ingots are place in the charger and then the chains carry the ingot into the pusher area while two hydraulic arms load the slug in the center of the oven. The pusher transport ingots into the furnace where they are heater to a temperature of 400 C, then when the ingot is out of the oven a weed cut it into pieces called billets that are delivered to the extrusion press, the diameter of the billet can be load depending on the type of press. As bigger is the diameter of the billet, bigger the force that needs the hydraulic press to mantain the same mechanical specific extrussion pressure while higher is the profile section that can be extrude. This means that the type of press depends of the final product that you want to produce. The press has a pair of hydraulic pumps that drive the spindle through a hydraulic cylinder; the force applied on the billet rod makes the material flow across the matrix where it gets its final form. At exit, the profile is cooled by water or air to achieve the desired metallurgical properties; the puller holds the profile and guides ir along the output table. Once the extrusion is finish while charging the following billet into the press, the extrude billet is cut, it is evacuated from exit and remains a time on the cooling table before ir is drawn through the traction bench eliminating the internal tensions straightening of the material and profile, then profiles are cut to size and are places in baskets by hand or machines, the baskets passed through the furnace of maturity where mechanical strenght is increased by heat treatment. Finally the profiles are packed for its delivery to the final customer.

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