Aluminium Door Frame Profiles Extrusion Factory

In a nut shell the stages required for the production of aluminium are the following :-

You start with bauxite to extract the aluminium. This is business for big players. You need very cheap electrical energy, cheap source of material and a considerable capital. The Hydro plant in Norway has two buildings 1 km long to do the transformation.

Foundry. You need to make the billets which are cut from logs. So you need a melting furnace and log casting unit.

Logs. These can be bought from specialized companies. If you don't have the technology it is difficult to make quality logs.

Billets. These are what you need for an extrusion press.

Extrusion press. There are a variety of presses available on the market.

You can get a very cheap press from China which has basically no guarantee for performance (200,000 Euro for a 1000 MT press).

If you are looking for a reliable equipment to last 20 years or more , go for a European press. You get the best technology. (800,000 Euro )

You have to select the press based on the final product required and the alloy. You may want to work only on doors and windows with a 6000 series of hard alloy with a 7000 series.

If you are thinking of making only doors and windows the smallest press may be too big for you so think of and alternative requirement (automobile, hardware etc)

Handling systems. There are many available, more or less reliable. These systems can be also fabricated on site. You can spend anything from 100,000 Euro to 1,200,000 Euro.

Surface treatment. You can have the extruded aluminium anodised ( 1,500,000 Euro) or powder coated, or PVDF coat. (1,000,000 Euro)

At this point you have material to make you doors and windows. Here the variety of systems available are infinite. You can have curtain walls, systems that go from 100 mm (section height) to 30mm. Mosquito frames are 8 mm. The requirement normally depends on the country you will supply to. In Europe you would normally use thermal break windows.

You shouldn't spend more than 1,000,000 Euro for a reasonably good production plant.

Now my advice.

To start any business you need money, so

1. check if you have the resources
2. select the activity closest to your budget
3. make a market research to assure the acceptance of the product
4. make a financial feasibility study and last of all
5. make your production line and
6. good luck.

Get some professional people to work for you. you don't need to invent the wheel.

Hydro aluminium systems is the top of the market.. Metra Infissi has about everything from cheap to expensive. Bodega has also internal partitions and systems for solar panels. However all these work on European standards. These companies sell systems. They will advice you which is the best machinery to buy based on your production requirement.

Some producers of machinery

Fom, Emmegi, Tecna , these are companies I know that make good machinery but there are many others.

In Italy you have a large choice of anything for Aluminium but go for known names, there are many inventors that haven't got it right.