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Extrusion Capabilities
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Let us help you select the right extrusion for your needs
From standard extrusions to custom formulations, we welcome your challenge. Backed by decades of experience in extrusion and material science, we will work with you to fully understand your application, identify the right material and methodology to produce the best results and engineer the right solution.
Our process model includes:
- Conceptualizing and piloting your new product
- Testing novel material formulations
- Designing and engineering with rapid prototyping and 3D modeling
- Providing extrusion dies for production
- Ensuring the product is fit for its purpose
- Providing color options
And much more. From concept to development and long after, we will work with you to ensure your success in real-world conditions for the long term.
Material Selection
Select the right material
Selecting the right material for a product is key to its performance. For products requiring extrusion profiling, Quanex offers a variety of thermoset and thermoplastic materials, including custom vinyl, butyl rubber, composite, and other high-performance options.
- Customizable, complex shapes created with in-house tooling development
- Single- and dual-extrusion profiling
- First-class quality control measures
- Expertise in a variety of materials including custom compounds
- Technical support throughout the process
Speed to Market
Why choose Quanex over a custom extruding house? Quanex offers a single source that gets your product to market fast—sometimes in as little as a few days.
Our fully integrated extrusion processes combined with in-house mixing capabilities allow you to streamline costs and minimize production process delays. In addition, we customize our product and tooling design to your exact specifications, providing unmatched quality and performance.
Quality you can Count on
Our quality processes—including continuous sample measurement via advanced imaging software—help connect the daily production floor to your approved engineered profile specifications. This ensures angularity, flatness, bow, surface and gloss quality, cut lengths, and color.
Unlike other extrusion providers, our processes hold tolerances below the Rubber Manufacturing Association’s Quality Standard Class 1, 2, and 3, ensuring your product will be ready to serve a long and useful life, no matter the application.
Product Differentiation
Our extrusion expertise extends into innovative material combinations. That’s why we invented RollTrusion®, a proprietary process that unites roll-formed metal and thermoplastic extrusions into a single piece, providing our customers with a material solution with the strength and dimensional stability of rolled metal and the design flexibility of plastics.
RollTrusion can be used for a variety of intricate products requiring uncommon strength. Common applications include flashing, weatherstripping, interlocks, mull trim, channel snaps, ceiling tiling grids, and more.
Learn more about RollTrusion and see what’s possible with Quanex.
Innovation you can Count on
With more than 50 billion feet of extruded product installed worldwide, you can count on Quanex to help you bring innovative new ideas to life and make an impact on your marketplace.
