Processed material can save customers both time and money. Aalco offers a wide range of modern processing equipment at both local and central service centres.
Most service centres have on-site:
- Sawing
- Protective PVC coating of sheet
- A guillotine
Central facilities include:
- Plate sawing
- Polishing of sheet and coil
- Plasma profiling
- Coil processing, including decoiling, levelling, slitting and blanking
Aalco can also sub-contract certain services for our customers. We have developed particular specialities in four key areas:
- Bar, tube and pipe-cutting
- Bar: capacity is available to cut accurately anything from a single 16"/406mm diameter billet to high volume repetition blanking
- Tubular products: the same as bar, we offer an equally flexible range of facilities
Plate Processing
Our plate processing facilities are unmatched in the UK. We offer a unique range of possibilities for cutting stainless steel, aluminium, copper, brass, bronze and nickel alloy plate.
- Plate saws handle 4000mm lengths in thicknesses up to 155mm
- Plasma cutting on submerged beds provides blanks up to 130mm thick, 2000mm wide, 4000mm long
- Band saws cut circles 100mm thick up to 1000mm diameter
- Laser cutting provides a clean, accurate edge for thicknesses up to 50mm in 2000mm widths and 4000mm lengths
- Water jet cutting provides intricate detail to close tolerances for thicknesses up to 100mm in 2000mm width plates up to 4000mm long
- Guillotining provides cut plates up to 6 metres long, 12mm thick and 2000mm wide
- Abrasive disc cutting provides a clean, smooth, square-cut edge on plates up to 75mm thick, 2000mm wide, 4000mm long
- Plate decoiling: up to 12mm thick and 2000mm wide to provide plate blanks up to 1400mm long
Coil Processing
Aalco's coil processing services include:
- Decoiling, levelling, slitting, spool winding, blanking, piercing, notching and circling
- Polishing and protective coating
- Aluminium and stainless steel in thicknesses from 0.1mm to 3.0mm with widths up to 2000mm are processed to close tolerances on 20 specialised lines within a dedicated group facility that is unequalled in Europe.
Aluminium extrusions
Services for aluminium extrusions include:
- Cut lengths: single pieces up to 16"/406mm diameter through to High Volume Repetition Cutting
- Prefabrication: drilling, notching, punching and bending
- Finishing: anodising, painting/power coating, polishing, chromating
- Protective coating or sleeving
- Special packaging, including ‘Kitting’