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    Profile Academy

    The Profile Academy is our professional training in aluminium profile design. Sessions are built around the questions engineers, designers and architects face when working with aluminium profiles, from tolerances to standards to design choices that affect how parts get made.

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    How a Profile Academy works

    Each Profile Academy is shaped around the topics that matter most to your team. We can cover extrusion, fabrication and sustainability, pull in design principles, tolerances and standards, or focus on whatever else is most useful for your work. A session can stay narrow on a single area or open up across the full picture. Profile Academies run at your site, at a Hydro location or online, and they are led by experts who bring real project experience with them.

    What we cover

    Most Profile Academies pull from a core set of topics. The exact mix depends on what your team wants to focus on. Some examples are: 

    Design principles

    • Aluminium profile fundamentals
    • Profile techniques and design for optimal production
    • Dimensional characteristics and strength calculation

    Materials and processes

    • Material techniques and corrosion
    • Surface treatment
    • Distortion and chipping processes

    Connections and assembly

    • Mechanical connections
    • Welding connections
    • Practical examples and analyses of profile solutions, with attention to total cost

    This is what some participants have said about their experience:

     

    "The Profile Academy covers a broad area. This provided me with an excellent basis for further development in subjects that are necessary in the automobile industry. I see now that the material and the construction methods offer excellent opportunities."

     

    "My visit to the Profile Academy provided me with an interesting view on the options in constructing aluminium profiles. The course covered the technique and also provided me with a number of ideas for applications. I learned so much."