Over the past forty years, Smart Architectural Aluminium has grown to become the UK’s leading supplier of aluminium systems, building a reputation both for the quality of their products and for their product innovation, design and technical expertise.

In that time, they have grown rapidly and invested heavily in plant, machinery and people to ensure they provide the very best products, service and support.

All their systems are manufactured from start to perfect finish at our purpose-built 60,000m² plant in the South West of England. The most modern and efficient of its kind in the UK, the plant is home to their three state-of-the-art aluminium extrusion presses, two dedicated paint lines and finishing facilities. This means they have complete control of the whole process, ensuring every profile they manufacture meets their exacting quality and performance standards.

 
 

With 3 extrusion presses, Smarts are the UK's most modern and efficient manufacturer of aluminium profiles

Environmental policies at the heart of their processes

Up to 30% of the aluminium used in their profiles is extruded from recycled aluminium billets

Smarts operate three aluminium presses; one 8” 2,200 tonne, one 8” 2,500 tonne extrusion press and in 2016, they commissioned a new 6” 1,500 tonne extrusion press, giving them an annual total production capacity of 30,000 tonnes.

Smarts extrusion presses utilise state of the art manufacturing software to minimise production waste, whilst maximising the efficient use of aluminium billets. 100% of waste aluminium from the extrusion process is captured and recycled into aluminium billets ready for production.

Smarts modern powder-coating plant incorporates a number of environmental features, including rain water capture, filtration and recycling processes.

They able to offer a range of standard and non-standard finishes including RAL and metallic fishes, in addition to their own Naturals, Sensations, Cotswold Creations and Alchemy ranges.

  • Smart operate two vertical paint lines and one horizontal paint line with a combined production capacity of 800m² of painted profile per hour.

  • Their rainwater capture system holds 220,000 gallons of rainwater which is filtered for cleaning prior to use in the pre-treatment process.

  • Their pre-treatment process is alkaline-based and 100% chromate free.

  • Smarts continually recycle and reuse the ionized water used in the pre-treatment process.

  • Following use, the water is filtered again before being released into the environment - at this stage, it is cleaner than mains drinking water.

  • Using advanced technology, Smarts are able to capture 98% of excess powder sprayed in the powder both; this is then filtered and reused in the powder-coating process.

 

The Smart Product Range