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October 2020 sees the official launch of AluK’s brand new, beautifully engineered C70S 70mm window - the big brother to its iconic 58BW window system.

Chepstow based AluK is reassuring customers that it is very much business as usual, despite the ‘Firebreak’ lockdown announced yesterday by the Welsh government.

As the landscape shifts in terms of how specifiers access and digest relevant content from suppliers, AluK has responded with a brand-new digital learning platform, containing everything from CPDs to case studies and blogs. 

The yield and tensile strengths of aluminium varies from 30-500N/mm2 and 79-570 N/mm2, while for steel the figures are in the range of 250-1000 N/mm2 and 400-1250 N/mm2. That doesn’t means that aluminium is weak though. Depending on the alloy and processing…

Justin Hunter joined AluK as Managing Director in May, just at the point that the industry was returning to work. He talked to Windows Active about the challenge which the whole industry now faces and what customers can expect from him and from AluK. 

The biggest cost associated with extracting aluminium is energy – as an indication, it takes the same amount of energy to light up a hundred 100-watt lightbulbs as it does to produce 1kg of aluminium. However, this is only a tiny part of the picture. The…