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3 Reasons You Should Anodize Aluminum Extrusions
At Profile Precision Extrusions 5 of our top 10 customers anodize their aluminum extrusions. The benefits of anodizing are improved cosmetic appearance, abrasion resistance and...
Simplify Your Manufacturing Value Chain
Very few (if any) aluminum extrusions are designed to be used in the “as extruded” state. However, historically the aluminum extrusion mill who produced the...
Aluminum Solutions To Medical Design Challenges
You may be surprised to learn that aluminum extrusions are very common in the doctor’s office, ER, and operating rooms. Anodized aluminum extrusions are used...
Design Tips
Profile Precision Extrusions reviews hundreds of extrusion design ideas each month. The designs come from a wide variety of potential customers, from entrepreneurs working at...
5 Initial Questions to Ask Your Aluminum Extruder
When choosing an aluminum extrusion provider, what types of questions should you be asking? We recommend initially starting with these 5 questions when searching for...
Who Uses Profile Precision Extrusions
As we’ve discussed in previous posts, aluminum shapes and extruded aluminum tube are used extensively in modern aircraft. Aluminum’s weight to strength ratio has been...
Looking Back on Precision Miniature Aluminum Extrusion
The beginning of a new year is a good time to look back & reflect on the previous one. For Profile Precision Extrusions 2017 was...
Looking at Things Differently with PPE
At Profile Precision Extrusions, we look at things a bit differently than the rest of our industry. We value ourselves in taking on projects that...
Extrusion Minimum Order Size
Every day at Profile Precision Extrusions, we review new aluminum tube and shape designs. Early on in our discussions with designers, we are asked about...
Biomimetics As a Tool For New Development
The great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness seds one rejects, dislikes, avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, seds but because...
What is a Miniature Aluminum Extrusion?
If you were to look up the definition of a miniature aluminum extrusion, you’d be hard-pressed to find it, even in the Aluminum Association Standards...
PPE Congratulates the Diamondbacks for Making the Playoffs
Early October is an exciting time for sports fans. The NFL is in full swing, the NBA and NHL training camps have started, and Major...