Over the years, we’ve been asked dozens, if not hundreds of times, about aluminum extrusion. If you were talking specifically about cars then you might only mention cars, that’s a similar analogy to aluminum extrusion. All different types of aluminum products are made just like different vehicle types.
What Is Aluminum Extrusion?
The phrase aluminum extrusion does not specifically mean a type of aluminum, just a form of aluminum. Think of aluminum extrusion like you would describe the vehicle industry. Generally, the term extrusion means that something was pushed through a mold and made into a specific design, shape, length, or whatever applied or was used to make that extrusion.
When a scrap yard grades your material or you tell a scrap yard that you have aluminum extrusion, that will not give you a specific price. All different grades of aluminum could become aluminum extrusions, such as 6061, 6063, 5000 series, and dozens, if not hundreds, of other materials. So, to get pricing from your scrap yard on aluminum extrusion specifically, they should ask you for the grade, or they will probably buy things much lower knowing that there will be a whole mixture of different types of aluminum mixed in with the aluminum extrusion.
