Why use Aluminium tubing?

Thanks to its great strength-to-weight ratio, ductility, and malleability, aluminium can be made into many different shapes, via both traditional rolling processes as well as extruding. This means aluminium tubing can be made for both precision and cost-effectiveness.

When compared to steel, aluminium has two further distinct advantages, strength and corrosion resistance. Whilst steel is stronger per volume, e.g. a bar of steel would be stronger than an identically shaped bar of aluminium, steel has a much lower strength-to-weight ratio.

In real-world terms, if two structures were designed to carry the same load, but one made from aluminium and one from steel, the aluminium one would be larger in size but weigh less than half of the steel one.

Benefits of Aluminium Tubing

Alternatives to aluminium generally include steel, stainless steel and titanium, aluminium has benefits over all three of these, when in the right conditions.

Lighter: Aluminium is lighter than steel, stainless steel and titanium

Stronger: Aluminium has a higher strength-to-weight ratio than steel and stainless steel, perfect for lightweight high-stress applications

Corrosion resistant: Whilst steel is cheaper than aluminium, any product that sees outdoor use will need secondary finishing by way of painting or galvanizing, Aluminium is corrosion resistant in most applications.

Cheaper: Aluminium is considerably cheaper than titanium, another lightweight corrosion-resistant alloy

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