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Designing with Aluminium

Did you know that aluminium alloy 6082T6 has a yield strength the same as commonly used mild steels as well as a higher value than stainless steel?

Designing with aluminium is a statement of intent. To produce the highest quality products while exploiting the advantages of a strong, lightweight, durable and design friendly material.

Aluminiumdesign.net is a site dedicated to the advances being made everyday, by the worlds leading product designers, in all fields of design and engineering. In this website you will find examples of cutting edge design with aluminium, examples of aluminium design projects from multi-million pound building developments to the smallest consumer products, and student design projects.

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Latest Additions

Light technology from Sapa Profiles
Sapa is the world’s leading provider of extruded aluminium profiles and has a dedicated business that provides solutions to the fast-growing solar industry. This dedication and the resulting experience and expertise are reflected in Sapa having the world’s largest number of aluminium structures for solar applications.

Kick off for Aviva Stadium
Sapa RC Profiles worked together with Williaam Cox of Ireland on
the new facade of the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Together they solved complex geometry and construction challenges, contributing
to a spacious new home for rugby and football fans.

Anodized aluminium jewellery
Father and daughter, Michael and Miranda Peckitt, are the dynamic duo behind this very colourful jewellery.

To create these vibrant pieces a sheet of metal is painted using dyes whilst leaving some areas unpainted. This is then dipped into a vat of single colour dye which pulls all the painted colours together to make one completed painting.

Read the article about aluminium jewellery>

sapaaccess towers and maintenance platforms

Sapa Access is a segment of Sapa Profiles UK’s business. It provides design, manufacture and the supply of moveable access towers and maintenance platforms to the Aviation, Marine and Transport industries.
Visit sapaaccess.co.uk to find out more.

Sapa RC Profiles in Belgium specialise in extraordinary profiles: large, wide and long profiles and thin wall thicknesses. Please visit:
Sapa RC Profiles Belgium

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