Supplier's Category: All Plastic & Metal Extrusion: Continuous profiles, tubes, and frames
Plastic and metal extrusion pushes material through a shaped die to produce continuous profiles — tubes, frames, channels — cut to length afterward. It’s efficient for constant-cross-section parts at any length, with tooling cost far lower than injection molding or die casting.
Extrusion tooling (the die) is comparatively cheap, so it pays off at lower volumes than injection molding or die casting — the constraint is cross-section shape, not part count.
- Aluminum extrusion: structural framing, heat sinks, enclosure channels
- Plastic extrusion: tubing, gaskets, and profile trim
- Custom profiles: complex constant cross-sections not available as stock shapes
Related terms: aluminum extrusion, plastic profile extrusion, die design for extrusion, cross-section tolerancing, anodizing-ready aluminum alloys, co-extrusion (multi-material), cut-to-length processing, extrusion die wear
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Common uses by material
Aluminum and plastic extrusion serve different, largely non-overlapping applications.
- Aluminum: structural framing, enclosures, heat sinks for thermal management
- Rigid plastic: window and door channel, structural trim
- Flexible plastic: gaskets, seals, and tubing