Services - Longton Light Alloys Ltd

Our Services

Aluminium Alloys Sand Casting

Large mould for sculptural casting

Resin sand mould for tooling application

Traditional green sand mould

Longton Light Alloys is one of the few foundries in the UK equipped to produce 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 also produce Aluminium castings for numerous areas in Industry including:

Aluminium Alloys
Sand Casting

Aluminium Alloys Sand Casting

Large mould for sculptural casting

Resin sand mould for tooling application

Traditional green sand mould

Sculpture & Art

Here at Longton Light Alloys we are asked for some unusual pieces. They consist of a wide range of different sculptural and heritage pieces made in Aluminium or Bronze, although we can also create them in Zinc as well.

A few examples can be seen above

Sculpture & Art

Aluminium Alloys
Die Casting Division

Die casting for
military applications

Die cast footplate
for commercial vehicle

Traditional green sand mould

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 an 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.

Some of the Aluminium Alloys cast at Longton Light Alloys Ltd:

LM4 | LM6 | LM16 | LM21
LM22 | LM25 | LM27

Aluminium Alloys
Die Casting Division

Die casting for
military applications

Die cast footplate
for commercial vehicle

Traditional green sand mould

LM4 | LM6 | LM16 | LM21
LM22 | LM25 | LM27

Heritage & Restoration

From plaques to stanchions to the bonnet of a tractor, we have made various castings for Heritage and Restoration projects including different parts for listed buildings such as window frames and latches.

A few examples can be seen above

Heritage & Restoration

Copper Based Bronze Castings

Pump body

Smelting furnace for
High quality casts

Longton Light Alloys produce Copper based Alloy castings to British, European and American standards. We can also work within duel certification standards where applied.

We have the capacity to cast up to 750 kilos in most of the Copper base alloys and specialise in castings for the oil, gas and water industry such as valve and pump bodies. We also supply Copper based castings to a wide spectrum of Industry and have carried some prestigious Architectural projects for major clients carrying out restoration work.

Industries who we have supplied include:

Copper based
Bronze Castings

Copper Based Bronze Castings

Pump body

Smelting furnace for
High quality casts

Machining Services

Pattern & Core box

End cover for pump housing

Longton Light Alloys is part of a small group together with our sister company Gladstone Engineering.

This provides our foundry with access to a full range of facilities including fabrication machining, assembly and finishing such as Spray painting or Powder coating.

Our on site machine shop can offer a full machining service including centre lathe turning, boring and milling. We can offer proof machining of castings or full machining to drawing. We also work closely with a list of approved suppliers who can provide Tool making, Pattern making and CNC machining.

Machining Services

Pattern & Core box

End cover for pump housing

Zinc based Castings

Switch Housing for mining industry
Fully machined

Zinc Anodes for
Naval application

Longton Light Alloys also cast in a wide variety of zinc based alloy castings up to 5 tonnes ZA2 (Kirksite). This is mainly used for prototype and short run panels for items such as car bodies.

The other zinc based alloys have applications for gravity or sand castings where high strength excellent bearing and wear properties etc are required. ZA 12 has high non sparking properties which is suitable for hazardous applications such as the Mining Industry.

Some of the Zinc based Alloys cast at Longton Light Alloys Ltd:

ZA2 | ZA8 | ZA12 | ZA27

Zinc based
Castings

Zinc based Castings

Switch Housing for mining industry
Fully machined

Zinc Anodes for
Naval application

ZA2 | ZA8 | ZA12 | ZA27

Finishing Services

Material Inspection

Material Polishing

Assembly &
Powder Coating Facilities

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