by Ben Wiley | May 21, 2020 | Aluminum Extrusion
When other people get home from work they can talk about how they’ve saved lives, delivered essential supplies or maybe even developed a vaccine for a particularly nasty little virus. When we get home from work we talk about the versatility of aluminum...
by Ben Wiley | Apr 21, 2020 | Metal Fabrication
Our trade relationship with China has been taking an interesting path over the past decade or so. An economic collapse helped lead to an enormous amount of outsourcing to the Far East. That has frequently led to disappointing quality and even has resulted in the...
by Ben Wiley | Mar 26, 2020 | Cutting
4 Factors Influencing Cut Edge Quality (and Why it Matters Anyway) When cutting metal there’s usually a lot of thought given to speed and accuracy. Those are important but we’d argue edge quality is another factor to consider. It’s also one that...
by Ben Wiley | Feb 12, 2020 | Aluminum Extrusion, Metal Fabrication, metal fabrication business, Metal Fabricators, Uncategorized
Taking weight out of trailers reduces operating costs. Businesses that operate fleets of trailers certainly want that, but not if it comes at the cost of reduced strength and durability. So can these apparently conflicting goals be solved? Mick Jagger likes to tell...
by Ben Wiley | Jan 16, 2020 | Aluminum Extrusion, Bending, Extruded Section, Metal Ductility
When aluminum is extruded through a die it’s supposed to come out straight. Die designers put a lot of effort into achieving that result because bent or twisted extrusion is of no use in many applications. There are occasions though when curved or radiused...
