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Processing Services

Bar, Tube & Pipe Cutting | Plate Processing | Coil Processing | Aluminium Extrusions

Processed material can save customers both time and money. Understanding this, Aalco has made a major investment in a wide range of modern processing equipment at both its local and central service centres.

Most service centres have on-site bar sawing, protective PVC coating of sheet and a guillotine. Central facilities include plate sawing, polishing of sheet and coil and plasma profiling, as well as coil processing which includes: decoiling, levelling, slitting and blanking.

In addition, Aalco regularly arranges other services for customers on a sub-contract basis. Aalco has 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: there is an equally flexible range of facilities.

This means reliable deliveries of cut pieces across the full product range.

Plate Processing

• Aalco’s plate processing facilities provide a unique range of possibilities for cutting stainless steel, aluminium, copper, brass, bronze and nickel alloy plate that is unmatched in the UK.
• 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.
• In addition Aalco offer Plate Decoiling up to 12mm thick and 2000mm wide to provide plate blanks up to 14000mm long.

Coil processing

• Our coil processing services include decoiling, levelling, slitting, spool winding, blanking, piercing, notching and circling as well as 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 specialist lines within a dedicated group facility that is unequalled in Europe.

Aluminium Extrusions

The processing services provided for aluminium extrusions include:

• Cut lengths – Single Pieces up to 16”/406mm diameter through to High Volume Repetition Cutting
• Prefabrication – Drilling, Notching, Punching & Bending
• Finishing – Anodising, Painting/Powder Coating, Polishing, Chromating
• Protective Coating or Sleeving
• Special Packaging including ‘Kitting’