An advanced course in design options with aluminium profiles

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1 Sapa UK in brief

2 An advanced course in design options with auminium profies Profie Academy in brief: Principes of auminium extrusion and die design. Auminium aoys and materia properties. Profie design and construction for optimum production. Surface finishing - anodising and paint. Fabrication - profies to soutions. Weding - incuding Friction Stir Weding. Team workshops; earn about the design possibiities using auminium profies. Design with regard to recycing and environmenta impact. To book your pace or find out more information, pease contact: marketing.profies.uk@sapagroup.com

3 Profie Academy 28/29 September 2010 Auminium over the ast decade has become an increasingy more popuar materia to use in various appications and product soutions. Yet the knowedge of auminium and profie construction is ow compared to more traditiona materias. Sapa s Profie Academy is an educationa experience that raises skis which can be used in the right way to increase the competitiveness of companies. This is unique in the UK so pease take the opportunity to join us. The course wi be over two days and is designed to demonstrate opportunities when designing with auminium extrusions, you wi meet peope who are knowedgeabe and experienced in their fied. Sapa s goa is to convey an understanding of the principes of extrusion, die making capabiities, surface treatments and fabrication. This training gives you the toos with which you can create the optimum profie soution for your products. By attending our Profie Academy you wi acquire the skis that wi give you and your company a unique competitive advantage.

4 Sapa s Appication Centre (AC) Is focused on design quaity and product soutions that are based on rigorous anaytica processes and experience. Deveopment that provides cost savings, reduction in ead times and a soution to the exact customer need and requirements. Design Whether it s transforming an existing stee part into high-quaity auminium, or starting fresh from the drawing board, the AC has the design expertise to create cost reducing, corrosion resistant, sustainabe, ightweight products. Use the AC as your first avenue for creative use of auminium extrusions to improve your product s design. Prototyping Every customer understands that the abiity to hod a product in their hands is a vauabe step during the deveopment process. The AC has a dedicated prototyping ce, aowing customer s access to physicay examine new concepts. Sapa aso takes a measures to keep your product safe, respecting customers needs for confidentiaity. R&D Anaysis Meeting customer s product standards is easy when using the AC s research and anaysis capabiities. Advanced computer simuations are appied to discover the best possibe design option every time, which reduces costs and ead times in the deveopment process. Customer Vaue The AC understands the concept of vaue. Customers want soutions which increase the vaue of their products in the marketpace. The AC staff are trained to hep you quantify the vaue of competing soutions so you can make correct product deveopment decisions and maintain your competitive advantage. Project Management Creating a product is not competed overnight; it takes dedication and commitment from a parties invoved. The AC is there with you every step of the way making sure that a aspects are covered from start to finish.

5 Everything becomes ighter with auminium

6 Sapa invests... circa 3 miion A new 2000t extrusion press ine at Tibshef Expanded warehousing at Chetenham In-house die making technoogy Increased resource in our Technica Engineering team Fabrication Centre ocated at our Chetenham pant Appication Centre based at our site in Redditch Exampe of product appication:

7 We are Sapa Sapa in 15 seconds We find soutions together with our customers. The earier we get invoved, the more vaue we can add. We aim to become a vita part of our customers suppy chain. We have vast experience based on thousands of successfu projects. We and our customers benefit from the exceent properties of auminium. Profies provide unique opportunities when shape and design are key aspects. We constanty strive to reduce the time it takes to go from idea to finished product. In-house fabrication aows us to suppy you with finished products.

8 The use of auminium is the common denominator for a Sapa s businesses. Around 8% of the Earth s crust consists of auminium in the form of different mineras. So auminium is one of the few metas for which the avaiabiity of raw materias is iteray unimited. Materia properties such as ow weight combined with high strength and resistance to corrosion contribute to ow environmenta oading. Recycing; auminium can be reused for the same purposes over and over again. Unike many other materias, auminium does not ose its unique properties. Furthermore, recycing requires ony 5% of the origina energy input. To take advantage of the recycing properties Sapa has remeting faciities in ten countries. Out of Sapa s tota production, around 50% is based on recyced auminium. Sapa Profies UK Ltd marketing.profies.uk@sapagroup.com sapagroup.com/uk/profies auminiumdesign.net

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