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Capral is Australia’s largest extruder and aluminium product distributor with six strategically placed manufacturing sites across Australia. Our manufacturing operations run eight aluminium extrusion presses from plants located in Bremer Park (QLD), Penrith (NSW), Smithfield (NSW), Campbellfield (VIC), Angaston (SA) and Canning Vale (WA). In addition to aluminium extrusions, we are able to supply powder coating in a wide range of colours and perform cutting, punching and CNC machining operations on extrusion, sheet and plate.
We extrude a comprehensive range of standard and custom shapes up to 420mm wide, 20kg/m weight and 16m length. Available alloys include 6060, 6063, 6106, 6463, 6005A, 6082, 6061, 1350, 6101.
Capral has an extensive range of commercial, residential and security window and door systems developed by one of Australia’s most experienced research and development teams.
Capral is committed to reaching Net Zero by 2050 and in 2022 was the first Australian extruder to offer low carbon aluminium options to its customers.
Capral is an ISO 9001:2008 supplier and either holds or can hold accreditation to the following International Associations of Classification Societies:
ABS (USA)
DNV (Norway)
Lloyds (Britain)
Germanisher Lloyd’s (Germany)
Bureau Veritas (France)
Class NK (Japan)
Capral is a Member of the following institutions:
Institute of Metal Finishing
Australian Glass and Window Association
Welding Institute of Australia
American Extrusion Council
Australian Aluminium Council
Aluminium Stewardship Initiative
Materials Embodied Carbon Leaders Alliance
Capral also have an in house NATA approved laboratory capable of performing strength of material testing.