Metal processing services
As one of the UK’s leading metal cutting companies, we have a comprehensive metal slitting, or rotary shearing, and cutting facility. We can either slit and cut from our own stock, or with your materials on a subcontract basis.
In each case, we work to the highest quality standards, with a 100% finished product inspection, and to the tightest tolerances, with a professional packing service to ensure your goods arrive in perfect condition.
We can also offer a stock-holding service, with orders for UK deliveries to tight deadlines.
Why subcontract your aluminium and steel processing?
Knowledge and expertise of the Alanod team
Superior quality of your finished product
Bespoke capabilities
Rapid turnaround time within days of your order
Flexibility and choice of material supplier
Increased capacity to supplement your own production capabilities
On-site storage facility for your materials
Steel and Aluminium Processing Supplier in the UK
Metal cutting
We have provided aluminium cutting services in the UK for almost 25 years.
Our guillotine has a 2500mm bed and is able to cut aluminium up to 600mm long and 6mm thick.
We also have a large cut to length line that can cut sheets up to 1250mm wide and 3000mm long achieving excellent flatness.
Our guillotining services include:
- Metal guillotining up to 2.5m
- From 0.25mm to 6.0mm metal shearing, cut to length
Metal slitting
You can be confident that you are partnering with one of the UK’s leading metal slitting companies.
Our slitting services include:
- Slit coils widths 10mm to 1250mm
- Thickness from 0.25mm to 1.5mm
(Other thicknesses available subject to trials) - Coil inside diameters of 400mm and 500mm
Slitting tolerances to +/- 0.1mm - Standard and reverse knife slitting
- In-house taping service on prime and reverse side surfaces
- Packed to your specification on pallets or cradles
Metal blanking services
Our blanking line can cut coils into small sheets from 80mm wide to a maximum of 620mm wide, thicknesses from 0.3mm to 1.5mm and lengths up to 700mm.
This fast and accurate line offers excellent material shape on aluminium or steel coils.
Cut to length services lines:
- Maximum length 3,500mm
- All to EN tolerances
- Fine blanking line widths from 100mm to 700mm
- Tight tolerance blanks with control of over-flatness to customer specification
Samples
To help you create, design, test and develop exciting new solutions we offer standard sized samples of all popular materials from stock.
We can also slit or cut special sizes or quantities to meet your exact requirements.
Material samples are available for all our coated metals, including lacquered, painted, anodised, coloured, untreated, antimicrobial and ultraviolet.
Aluminium
Quality guaranteed
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