What’s the best conduit pipe for electrical wiring? The experts with American Conduit can show you. Our company has more than four decades of experience manufacturing and selling conduit, and we can tell you exactly what type will be the best fit for your specific application. Since we’re a product brand of Hydro, the world’s leader in aluminum extrusion, our supply of conduit is nearly unlimited. We’ll have the conduit you need at a price you can easily afford, and we’ll get it to you as efficiently as possible.
How Can Aluminum Be as Strong as Steel?
If you think that steel is the only material strong enough to protect your sensitive wiring and cables, it’s time to reconsider that assumption. We treat our aluminum with special 6000 series alloys, making our conduit just as strong as steel. While steel makes pulling cable very easy, aluminum is just as easy.
There are several components to these alloys, including copper, zinc, silicon and magnesium, that give our conduit products their amazing strength. Alloys that combine aluminum and zinc are so strong, in fact, that you’ll often find them used in the automobile and aerospace industries. Automakers love aluminum because it does a great job of absorbing energy. This helps protect drivers and passengers from crashes.
So if the leading automakers trust aluminum to protect humans, you can trust aluminum to protect your wires and cables.
As important as alloys are to the strength of our conduit, there are other reasons our conduit is just as strong as steel. We use special production processes, including hot and cold rolling, to produce conduit. Heating aluminum and then cooling it rapidly helps exponentially increase its strength. In fact, the colder it gets outside, the stronger aluminum gets.
Other Reasons to Turn to Aluminum
There are many other benefits to using aluminum conduit. If you’re price-conscious – and we haven’t met a customer yet who wasn’t – aluminum is the clear choice. It weighs 30 percent less than steel, making it much more affordable. Not only will it cost less to buy, it will also cost less to ship it to your other offices should the need ever arise. You also don’t need as many people to move aluminum conduit or to install it. The savings in labor costs can be very substantial, as can the increase in efficiency.
If you’re interested, we have several case studies on our website of customers who have saved tens – and in many instances, hundreds – of thousands of dollars by making the switch to aluminum. There’s a very good chance we could help you save that much or even more.
In addition, aluminum conduit can handle the elements every bit as good as steel – better, in fact. Steel corrodes over time but aluminum doesn’t, because it has a protective aluminum oxide coating. Unless steel has a special, expensive coating, it will degrade over time.
Our Experts are Ready to Help
If you’re looking for the best conduit pipe for electrical wiring, you’ll find it at American Conduit. Each and every one of our team members is an expert in conduit, and we can show you what type is best for your exact needs. Please get in touch with us by either giving us a call at 1-800-334-6824 or using our convenient contact online form.