HTC Legend mobile phone housing, sculpted from a single piece of extruded aluminium. The profile is extruded sideways and then CNC machined to the final shape. Techniques have evolved to mass produce fully machined housings like this (same as Apple unibody products). All the scrap can be recycled directly.
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