Extrusion trials have been carried out in a laboratory extrusion press on the two important industrial aluminium alloys AA6060 and AA6082 The cooling devices positioned just below the outlet of the die in this laboratory press give the possibility to freeze the entire deformed structure developed during the extrusion process in such a way that the recrystallization process can be avoided. Textures were measured through the profile thickness for both alloys in the as-deformed state and after recrystallization annealing. The deformation textures in the two investigated alloys follow the same pattern In both cases the textures are dominated by a β-fibre in the centre section where the Bs orientation is the sharpest, while the β-fiber is rotated/degenerated towards the surface. The strengths of the fibres are comparable in both alloys, but alloy AA6082 has a somewhat weaker Cu component. There is, however, a difference for the starting point where the fibres begin to rotate and degenerate. This indicates that the shear deformation penetrates deeper into the material in the softer AA6060 alloy. Both alloys display a significant cube component in the deformation texture with comparable strength and similar scatterings around ED and ND. The recrystallization textures are in both materials dominated by the cube orientation with scatterings as observed in the deformation texture The strength of the cube orientation is very high in the centre, especially for 6060, but decreases towards the surface as the cube transforms into a fibre and is gone for the outer 75μm. The outer surface zone is dominated by a weak texture (close to random) with some goss and 45° ND-rotated cube.