Intelligent profile design is the path to better, less expensive turnkey solutions. We know this from Sapa's experience of manufacturing hundreds of thousands of different aluminium profiles. In addition to a higher degree of automation and lower costs, our business partners have also reaped the benefits of enhanced product quality. Consider an ordinary frame for a ventilation system in a train, for example. Once, this would have consisted of four heavy steel profiles that were welded together. Now, it can be bent from a lightweight aluminium profile and assembled in a single welding operation, considerably improving economy, function and design. Sapa Mass Transportation is responsible, within the Sapa Group, for supplying aluminium extrusions, friction stir welded panels and fabricated components based on extrusions, to the Mass Transportation market segment. The scope of products includes structural components for rolling stock, non-structural exterior components and aluminium profiles and components to the marine market. |