About

HuDay is founded and owned by Andrew J. den Bakker, PhD, is specialised in transfer and application of knowledge concerning light alloys. Within this field HuDay provides professional support regarding light metals product development and associated manufacturing processes, with a particular emphasis on extrusion operations.

Andrew J. den Bakker, PhD. is a graduate from the Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering (3ME) Faculty of Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. He holds a PhD in the aluminium extrusion technology field. Over a period spanning more than 25 years he has held several functions in the light metals industry and knowledge institutes such as TNO, primarily in project management, technological (production) support and in research and development. In his career he has closely collaborated with universities, research institutes and commercial metallurgical laboratories on both a national and international level. He has an extensive network where appropriate metallurgical activities, such as product tests and metallurgical examinations can be outsourced.

The name HuDay is derived from Humphry Davy, an English scientist, writer/poet and philosopher in at The End of 17th century. Although most famous for his invention of the miners’ safety lamp, Humphry Davy was the first person to name the metal base in the mineral alumina as alumium, later to be renamed by Davy 1808 to aluminium.*

* Phil. Trans. R. Soc. London, 98, pp. 333-370, 1808