Aluminium Die and Sand casting
Longton Light Alloys is one of the few foundries in the UK equipped to produce Aluminium castings of up to 2.0 tonnes in weight.
We specialise in large tooling applications for the automotive, aerospace and leisure industries , and have developed the casting in of stainless steel tubing which provides a very effective method of introducing heating or cooling elements to the tool during use.
Longton Light Alloys can also offer a Gravity die casting service . Employing the state of the art automatic control electric furnaces which ensure high quality control over metal melting.
Gravity die castings gives us the opportunity to offer our customers the ability to move to larger volumes of casting production utilising permanent moulds to ensure tighter control of dimensional accuracy and quality.
Die casting can offer a extremely economical method of producing large volumes of castings and with our extensive knowledge of this process we can offer you the best solution for your particular application.
Longton Light Alloys also produce Aluminium castings for numerous areas in Industry including:
- Aero space Engineering
- Automotive Engineering
- Food & Chemical Industries
- Marine Engineering
- Rail Industry
- Architectural
- Film Industry
- Sculptural
