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What would come to mind if you were asked to describe typical uses for corrugated aluminium? Many would probably begin thinking about various external applications, including cladding for industrial buildings, retail sheds and other similar utilitarian uses.
However, as an alternative to large sized industrial style corrugations Gooding Aluminium have developed specialised tooling for producing a variety of miniaturised equivalents with both curved and flat topped patterns.
Corrugated Sheet: Anodised Finish Gatecrasher, Birmingham
Lightweight and eye-catching the GA Anolight range of diminutive corrugated profiles adds a contemporary and elegant twist to all kinds of interior spaces. Flexible Anolight can be installed with its pattern running either horizontally or vertically.
The combination of Anolight’s fixing adaptability with its modern good looks makes it just right for the exhibition, leisure and retail sectors. Being such a lightweight product (2.74 kg/m2) makes it is so easy to handle, shape and fit on site.
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Simply visit our website and browse our online aluminium products store, and take advantage of our free service by selecting the ‘get samples’ icon as you view the aluminium product listings.
If you have aluminium project requirements and require samples, our FREE on-line samples service Team will respond quickly and efficiently to your request.
GA samples are supplied in attractive presentation sleeves and binders and are normally dispatched within 24 hours.
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Project: Burger King 20/20 Energy Efficient Restaurants
Location: Worldwide Burger King Restaurants
Product: GA Anolight (Aluminium) Corrugated Sheets
Specifier: Hurstwood Design Group
Client: Burger King
Project Brief
A core objective of the Burger King 20/20 Energy Efficient Restaurant concept was to create a contemporary, edgy, futuristic look for the Burger King restaurant dining experience. The eco-friendly designs utilise state-of-the-art technologies and renewable energy to power one-third of the restaurant’s energy consumption, in an effort to reduce energy consumption costs and CO2 emissions every year.
Anolight Aluminium Corrugated Sheet - Burger King
Gooding Aluminium’s GA anolight aluminium corrugated sheets play an integral role in supporting Burger King’s commitment to its corporate social responsibility programme: creating modern design that meets energy efficient elements.
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Most of us will be familiar with the 19th century architect and engineer Issambard Kingdom Brunel and at least some of his awe inspiring designs for bridges, railways, tunnels and ships. However, there is another less well known, but no less accomplished engineer and architect from the same period and his name is Henry Robinson Palmer. Apart from founding the Institute of Civil Engineers, Henry Palmer also patented the first Monorail design in 1821 and is credited with inventing corrugated iron and the galvanising process.
Gatecrasher Nightclub - Corrugated Aluminium
The principle advantage of corrugating materials is that although it doesn’t make them any stronger as such, it does increase their rigidity by virtue of spreading any applied load along the length of the corrugations.
Combining Henry Palmer’s brilliant corrugating idea and applying this to a modern day corrosion resistant and lightweight material such as aluminium sheet produces an outstanding multi functional product.
As with all claims for improved product performance, some clear cut evidence is required to demonstrate just how much of a difference the corrugating process makes to the rigidity of an aluminium sheet.
Ceram Research therefore recently carried out deflection testing on our range of wavy Anolight aluminium sheets and compared the results with a control sample of flat aluminium sheet. The test results exceeded my expectations and will be shortly uploaded onto our website. In the meantime here are the essentials.
Gatecrasher Nightclub
A synopsis of the test conditions reads as follows. Load was applied by means of dead weights placed centrally on the aluminium sheets. Deflections were measured at each load increment until either the sample collapsed or the maximum load was achieved.
Dorman Museum, Middlesborough
The test results showed that, compared with the control sample of flat aluminium sheet, the wavy Anolight material had an impressively increased resistance to deflection of between 8 & 15 times (depending on the sheet patterns tested).
Corrugating sheet material is a great example of innovation. Sometimes the simplest of ideas are the best. We have a lot to thank Henry Robinson Palmer for!
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