Abstract: A method of producing a die or a die material for extrusion of aluminum profiles, comprising the steps of: providing a first powder, which is a steel powder having the following composition in weight %: C<1.2; Co 6.0-15; Mo 5.0-11.0; Mn 0-1.5; Si 0-1.25; Cr 2-8; Ni 0.5-6.0; P<0.1; balance Fe and unavoidable impurities, said steel powder having a mean particle size of 5-100 um, providing a second powder containing one or more grain growth inhibitors selected among the group comprising carbides, oxides and nitrides, milling at least the steel powder to a mean crystallite size of 20-100 nm, mixing the first and second powders to a powder mixture, wherein the content of the second powder in the powder mixture is in the range of 0.05-2.5 weight %, forming a green body of the powder mixture, and sintering the green body by discharge plasma sintering (SPS), at a temperature in the range of 950-1200° C.

Abstract: A method for producing an aluminium alloy extrusion, consisting of an alloy with the composition ?0.30% by weight of silicon, ?0.40% by weight of iron, 0.01-1.1% by weight of manganese, ?0.30% by weight of magnesium, ?0.70% by weight of zinc, ?0.35% by weight of chromium, ?0.20% by weight of zirconium, ?0.25% by weight of titanium, ?0.20% by weight vanadium, ?0.10% by weight of copper, up to 0.15% by weight of other impurities, each not greater than 0.03% by weight and the balance aluminium, the method comprising the steps casting the molten metal into extrusion billet a) subjecting the billet to a homogenization treatment at a holding temperature of 550 to 620° C. for 6 to 10 hours b) heating the billet to a temperature of 400 to 550° C. c) extruding the billet to a tube.

Abstract: A high-voltage cable (1) comprising a hollow conductor (2), characterized in that an inner tube (3) is arranged inside the hollow conductor (2), and a first electrically insulating layer (4) is arranged between the innertube (3) and the hollow conductor (2), wherein said first electrically insulating layer (4) is in direct contact with the entire outer surface of the inner tube (3) and the entire inner surface of the hollow conductor tube (2), and a method (100) of manufacture of the cable.

Abstract: An embossing roll (1) having a cylindrical surface (2) comprising a central portion (3) having an embossing pattern (10) and side portions (4a, 4b) arranged on each side of the central portion, which are free from embossing pattern, wherein circumferential buffer channels (5) are provided on each side of the central portion (3), between the central portion and the side portions, along the cylindrical surface (2) of the embossing roll.

Abstract: A method for producing an aluminium alloy extrusion, consisting of an alloy with the composition ?0.30% by weight of silicon, ?0.40% by weight of iron, 0.01-1.1% by weight of manganese, ?0.30% by weight of magnesium, ?0.70% by weight of zinc, ?0.35% by weight of chromium, ?0.20% by weight of zirconium, ?0.25% by weight of titanium, ?0.20% by weight vanadium, ?0.10% by weight of copper, up to 0.15% by weight of other impurities, each not greater than 0.03% by weight and the balance aluminium, the method comprising the steps casting the molten metal into extrusion billet a) subjecting the billet to a homogenization treatment at a holding temperature of 550 to 620° C. for 6 to 10 hours b) heating the billet to a temperature of 400 to 550° C. c) extruding the billet to a tube.

Abstract: A method for producing a corrosion resistant aluminum alloy extrusion. The method includes providing molten alloy with a composition comprising ?0.30, % by weight of silicon, ?0.40, % by weight of iron, 0.01-0.6% manganese, ?0.30, % magnesium, ?0.70, % zinc, 0.05-0.35% chromium, 0.02-0.20% zirconium, ?0.25% titanium, ?0.20% vanadium, ?0.10% copper, up to 0.15% by weight of other impurities, each not greater than 0.03% by weight, and the balance aluminum. The method includes casting the alloy into an extrusion billet, subjecting the billet to a homogenization treatment at a holding temperature of 550 to 620 deg.C for 6 to 10 hours, heating the billet to a temperature of 400 to 550 deg.C, and extruding the billet to a tube.

Abstract: A connection between one end of a Multi Port Extrusion (MPE) tube (1) of aluminium or an aluminium alloy and one header (2), the connection comprises an adapter (3) with a seal ring (4) fixed between the MPE tube and the header. The invention also relates to a method for connecting said parts.

Abstract: A strut including an elongated beam portion and a connecting end portion. The elongated beam portion is a tubular structure having an external circumference, the connecting end portion is integral with the elongated beam portion, has a folded and flattened end portion of the tubular structure, and where diametrically opposite inward fold lines meet between flattened parts the end portion of the tubular structure. The resulting connecting end portion includes four material layers and the connecting end portion has a width transverse to a longitudinal centerline of the connecting end portion.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for pre-forming a metal strip, having an embossing tool and a strip edge chamfering tool, the embossing tool having an embossing roll having a cylindrical surface with a central embossing portion, and the strip edge chamfering tool having an edge chamfering roll having a recessed central section and side sections on each side of the central section, and an anvil roll, the edge chamfering roll and the anvil roll being configured to receive and pass the metal strip in a clearance formed between the rolls, the clearance having a reduced height in the side sections, which are located in a position where the longitudinal side edges of the metal strip will pass, so that the longitudinal side edges on each side of the metal strip, and on the embossed side of the metal strip become chamfered when being passed between the pair of rolls.

Abstract: A seam guide assembly configured to maintain the longitudinal edges of a metal strip in position before welding in a welding section of a welded tube roll forming apparatus, the seam guide assembly having a front seam guide tip component, a through channel being provided in the holder, the channel having an inlet opening located on said first side of the holder, adjacent the front seam guide tip component, and an outlet opening located on a second side of the holder, the outlet opening being configured to connect to a vacuum source; a welded tube roll forming apparatus having a vacuum extraction section configured to extract solid particles produced inside the tube during the high frequency induction welding of the tube edges, and being located in the apparatus at a position where the where the edges of the roll formed tube have not yet been welded together; and related method.

Abstract: A method (100) of manufacturing a clamping strap (10) configured to hold and support a hanging object (20) against a structure (21), which is to carry the hanging object, and a clamping strap obtainable by said method; said method comprising providing (101) an extruded elongated aluminium profile having an initial material thickness (T0) and an initial cross-sectional area (A0), said profile having a longitudinal direction, which coincides with the extrusion direction of the profile; forming the profile in a bending step (102) into a shape comprising a first end attachment portion (1a), a second end attachment portion (1b), and an intermediate portion (2) located between said first and second end attachment portions (1a; 1b) in a longitudinal direction of the profile (11), said intermediate portion (2) being configured to at least partially encircle the hanging object (20) when mounted to the structure (21); said method including forming said profile by means of locally thinning the profile in a longitudinal

Abstract: An embossing roll (1) having a cylindrical surface (2) comprising a central portion (3) having an embossing pattern (10) and side portions (4a, 4b) arranged on each side of the central portion, which are free from embossing pattern, wherein circumferential buffer channels (5) are provided on each side of the central portion (3), between the central portion and the side portions, along the cylindrical surface (2) of the embossing roll.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a first metal cable (1) having a flat upper (A) and a flat lower (B) surface, comprising at least one hollow riser (2) extending approximately 90 degrees from one of the flat surfaces of the first metal cable, the hollow riser being 5 configured to house an end of a second metal cable (3). A connected structure comprising a first metal cable wherein a second metal cable is inserted into the hollow riser (2) of the first metal cable and joined with the first metal cable. it also relates to a method of making a connected structure, joining a first metal cable to a second metal cable by friction welding the second metal cable (3) to the first metal cable by 10 contacting a rotating tool (4) with the lower surface of the first metal cable in the area underneath the hollow riser.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing formed aluminum components. The method comprises the steps: i. Providing a hollow profile of aluminum or aluminum allow, the profile having a predetermined length and comprising an outer wall having a pre-determined thickness; ii. Placing a hollow aluminum profile in a cavity of a bending tool and press bending the profile using the bending tool; and iii. Transferring the profile to a cavity of a forming tool and subjecting the interior of the profile to elevated gas pressure, whereby the section of the profile is distended until the outer wall of the profile abuts the forming tool, thereby providing a formed aluminum component; wherein the steps ii. and iii. are performed at a tool temperature of 350-470° C. The present invention further relates to formed aluminum components manufactured by such a method.

Abstract: A connection between one end of a Multi Port Extrusion (MPE) tube (1) of aluminium or an aluminium alloy and one header (2), the connection comprises an adapter (3) with a seal ring (4) fixed between the MPE tube and the header. The invention also relates to a method for connecting said parts.

Abstract: A brake tube connector including a brake tube with a flare at an end, and a screw. The flare has a front portion with a front abutment surface, a rear portion with a rear abutment surface, and an intermediate portion between. The screw is arranged coaxially with the brake tube with an abutment surface facing the rear abutment surface. The rear portion of the flare has a frustoconical shape and an inclination angle between the rear abutment surface and a radial plane. The screw abutment surface is inwardly inclined at an angle between the screw abutment surface and a radial plane.

Abstract: A wrought aluminium material with improved damage tolerance while preserving the high strength of the material is disclosed. Furthermore, a cast aluminium material of a precipitation hardenable aluminium alloy is disclosed, the material comprising grains having two distinct zones with a first centre zone enriched in elements capable of reacting peritectically with aluminium and a second zone, surrounding the first zone, enriched in elements capable of reacting eutectically with aluminium.

Abstract: A Multi Port Extrusion tubing (MPE tubing) (10) made from a Multi Port Extrusion (MPE), the MPE being a web like extrusion (Web-MPE) with two or more individual tubes (8) interlinked with webs (9). The webs have a thickness, which is less than the tube diameter of the individual tubes, and the MPE tubing includes at least one bending zone (A), and at least two straight zones (C1, C2). The web-MPE in the bending zone (A) is bent so that each individual tube has a U-shape, and the web-MPE in a first straight zone (C1) is parallel to the web-MPE in an adjacent second straight zone (C2). The web-MPE in the straight zones on each side of the bending zone (A) extend in substantially the same plane, so that all individual tubes of the web-MPE in the straight zones are parallel to each other, and extend in the same plane.