Sika manufactures custom aluminum profiles according to your drawings, ideal for meeting requirements of lightness, precision, and corrosion resistance. Cold formed from aluminum coils, the profiles can feature open, closed, or complex cross sections perfectly suited for applications in lighting, furniture, automotive, industrial handling, and architecture. Our manufacturing processes ensure reliable, customized components ready for seamless integration into existing systems.
CUSTOM PROFILES
Custom aluminum profiles
Custom aluminum solutions for tailored projects
Cold working of custom aluminum profiles
Roll forming, stamping, punching, and bending
The production of custom aluminum profiles relies on advanced technologies such as cold roll forming, punching, stamping, bending and calendering. These processes deliver high-precision profiles, even with complex geometries and functional details. Continuous processing ensures high productivity and reduced waste. Discover how we organize custom aluminum profile manufacturing, from coil to finished profile.
Cold roll forming
Cold roll forming involves feeding aluminum strip through a series of rollers that gradually shape the material into the desired profile. This process ensures high dimensional accuracy and excellent repeatability, minimizes waste thanks to continuous and automated operation, and enables the production of a wide range of custom aluminum profiles with open, closed, or shaped sections.
Cold stamping
Cold stamping uses presses equipped with molds to shape sheet metal into more complex three-dimensional forms, often featuring pronounced bends or ribs. This method is highly effective for large-scale production runs, combining high productivity with the ability to achieve detailed and intricate geometries.
Punching
Punching allows for the creation of holes, slots, or variously shaped openings directly on the aluminum sheet, often in combination with roll forming or stamping. This process ensures that semi-finished components are already prepared for fastenings, cable passages, or attachment systems resulting in time savings and greater efficiency during assembly and installation.
Bending
Among the key processes used to manufacture custom aluminum profiles, bending is carried out using specialized machinery such as rollers or press brakes. This step allows for the creation of profiles with constant or variable curves, offering additional design flexibility. It ensures accurate radius control and repeatability, ideal for architectural and structural components.
Benefits of custom aluminum profiles
Aluminum offers many benefits, including lightness, weather resistance, ease of processing and an excellent finish. Sika profiles can be customized with cut-to-length, holes, punching, markings and joints to meet the technical requirements of each project. We also work pre-lacquered and pre-painted coils, selected at the purchasing stage according to customer specifications.
Mechanical strength
Thanks to its structural alloys, aluminum offers excellent strength while maintaining a low weight ideal for applications that require both solidity and lightness.
Durability
In contact with air, aluminum forms an oxide layer that protects the metal from external agents, ensuring long life and resistance to moisture and chemicals.
Customization
Cold processing allows the creation of custom aluminum profiles with complex geometries and tailored finishes, perfectly integrable into both technical and architectural projects.
Cost optimization
High-efficiency continuous production and minimized waste make custom aluminum profiles a cost effective solution, even for large scale manufacturing.
Custom and standard aluminum profiles
Alongside custom aluminum profiles made to drawing, we also produce the most common standard sections, U, C, L, omega and tubular, cold formed to order with lengths, holes and accessory processing defined by the customer. Discover our structural and commercial aluminum profiles and learn more about the material on our special aluminum profiles page.
Applications
Custom aluminum profiles are used in many industrial sectors: in material handling as guides and supports, in automotive for lightweight and structural components, in lighting for frames, housings and supports, in furniture for aesthetic and functional elements, and in construction for partition walls, frames and window systems. The versatility of Sika profiles allows them to adapt to any configuration, with ready-to-assemble components designed to optimize installation time and cost.
Contact us to discover how Sika can support your project with high-quality custom aluminum profiles.
Certified quality
Our solid experience, ongoing innovation and strong presence in the industry make us the ideal partner for those seeking high-level solutions. Choosing Sika for custom aluminum profiles means relying on a company with the highest quality standards. Discover the certifications we have achieved as proof of our commitment.
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between an extruded and a cold roll formed aluminum profile?
Extrusion pushes aluminum through a die, while cold roll forming progressively bends a strip through a series of rollers. A roll formed profile has constant thickness, can start from pre-painted strip and integrates holes and slots in line: it is ideal for thin-walled sections and series production.
Which aluminum thicknesses and alloys do you work?
We work aluminum strip from 0.4 to 4 mm thick and up to 550 mm wide, in the 1000, 3000 and 5000 series and in pre-painted versions. The alloy is chosen according to the bending radius and the strength required.
How do I request a quote for a custom aluminum profile?
Send us the profile drawing with alloy, thickness, quantity, finish and required processing: our technical department will reply with a feasibility check and a quotation.
Profiled materials
Discover the materials we cold form from coil: stainless, pickled, corten and galvanized steel, aluminum and copper. We transform metal coils into high-quality profiles for the most diverse needs and applications of our clients.
