The Advantages of Aluminum Lighting Fixture Parts Over Steel. Aluminum is one of the light weight materials that has a very popular use in the manufacturing of many different products and parts. The use of aluminum as material for fabrication is evident in the production of automobile parts, military equipment, musical instruments, leisure tools such as golf clubs, and in many other things.

In addition to those things, aluminum is also used in the manufacture of lighting fixtures. In medical lighting, aerospace lighting, military lighting and even street lighting, aluminum made light frames or housings are in popular use.

The advantages of aluminum Lighting Fixture Parts over steel have something to do with the properties of aluminum. Aluminum has chemical and physical properties that help it be a suitable material for the production of lighting products. First, aluminum has minimal weight. Imagine and compare that with steel, aluminum allows for the flexibility of the output and for the production of different types of lighting fixtures such as the hanging type of lighting fixture. Second, aluminum is very cost effective. Third, the use of aluminum allows for multiple and relatively easy productions that result to high number of products as outputs in a very efficient manner. Fourth, aluminum is a very good conductor of heat and light and this helps in the better refraction and reflection of light. Fifth, aluminum products, regardless of their light weight property, are durable products and with durability level higher that of plastics and competitive with that of steel.

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