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AluK set to launch UK’s first
integrated inline vertical FOX plant
24th July 2018

AluK says it is at the final stages of testing the only Flash Oxidisation (FOX) plant run by any aluminium systems supplier in the UK and could be only weeks away from putting it into full production.

The EUR6million unit, based at the company’s Chepstow HQ, was unveiled to trade journalists in a special preview last week prior to a full-scale launch.

Flash Oxidisation is an advanced form of aluminium anodisation said to give a more resilient pre-treatment coating not only for protecting the metal itself but also giving improved bonding as a substrate for powder coating.

MD Russell Yates told guests the process is available in the UK via third party subcontractors but AluK will be the only manufacturer to offer it as an integrated part of the production process as well as using it as standard on its entire product portfolio.

The company is already testing the process on some products and believes it is now only a few weeks away from rolling it out across all production.

The MD added that it is too soon to speak in numbers but the additional resilience of the process will have major positive implications for the company’s current ten-year product guarantee.

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