Hydro’s Extrusion Americas unit has published an updated third edition of its North American Extrusion Design Manual. For the first time the guide includes third-party resource materials on applications and product engineering. Now available on interactive CD, the manual is easier to use and more comprehensive than ever. The manual is a practical engineering and application guide to aluminum extrusions that gives designers, engineers and product developers technical insights and guidelines to take advantage of extruded aluminum’s performance characteristics in new and creative ways. Extrusion Americas is a unit of Norsk Hydro, based in Oslo, Norway. For more information, visit www.hydro.com/northamerica.
Hydro releases design manual (December 2009)
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