Precision tubing

Precision Tubing’s Research and Development teams work to create innovative solutions to the challenges we face. Our goal is to achieve continuous improvement and innovation on every level.

Our research and development effort is oriented towards Precision Tubing’s core activities, and serves to continuously improve products and manufacturing processes, as well as to develop innovative technologies and new applications. We work to secure the continued progress of aluminium as a competitive and environmentally sound material. As part of a vertically integrated aluminium company, we have a deep knowledge of the material, its alloys and the manufacturing methods used to transform these into a broad range of products.

This experience enables us to offer our customers leading edge solutions for stronger, more durable and higher performance thermal solutions. Ultimately, our goal is to make your products, and your business, flow as effectively as the systems they drive.

Alunova and Extrusion Competence Center (ECC) are Precision Tubing’s global development centers that have helped drive many of our innovations, providing support in material technology, joining, brazing, and process technology, tube component and application design and prototyping.
This experience enables us to offer our customers leading edge solutions for stronger, more durable and higher performance thermal solutions. Ultimately, our goal is to make your products, and your business, flow as effectively as the systems they drive.

Alunova offers shared product, process and business development for all of Hydro's Precision Tubing plants. It generates its ideas from its core competencies and the powerful global network of partners and its worldwide plants located in Europe, Asia, South America and Asia. Alunova is based in Løgumkloster, Denmark and it enhances an experienced team of development professionals, that focus on the following areas:

  • CO2 solutions
  • New brazing (e.g. HybrazTM /® and joining technologies)
  • New tube and manifold solutions
  • Non-automotive products

Competencies:

  • Manifold design and development
  • Heat exchanger performance projection and analysis
  • Heat exchange testing
  • Design capabilities

In addition, Alunova has created facilities dedicated to the development and testing of new concepts, and can offer these valuable resources to our customers.

Extrusion Competence Center – Precision Tubing (ECC-PT) is the dedicated R&D unit devoted to the BU Precision Tubing. Focus in the R&D work is on Process and Material development and our highly skilled researchers are located in Norway (Karmøy and Oslo) as well as in the major manufacturing plants in Denmark, the US and China. Our R&D targets are focused on long term developments giving short term results, and continuous support to our global network of plants. We are engaged in partnerships with a wide variety of customers. Our links with major technical institutes throughout the world allow access to groundbreaking new R&D. Combining this knowledge with the know-how of trained and experienced personnel, and modern well-equipped laboratory facilities, enables us to provide continuous key customer support.

Competencies:

  • Extrusion process
  • Tube drawing process
  • Die technology
  • Alloy development
  • Corrosion and Corrosion design
  • Surface and Coating technology
  • Brazing and Joining technology
  • FEM simulations

Laboratory facilities:

  • Metallographic lab.
  • Mechanical testing lab
  • SEM / GDOES
  • Corrosion lab
  • Brazing lab.
  • Bending and End-forming

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