FOUNDRY

Akpa Aluminium commenced billet production in 2011 with an annual capacity of 45,000 tons. With the foundry investment completed in 2024, the company has increased its annual billet production capacity to 135,000 tons.

Our foundry is equipped with a melting furnace, homogenization furnace, and cooling cabinets, all designed to support high-efficiency and high-quality production.

Throughout the process, all operations are performed automatically using state-of-the-art homogenization furnaces and automated feed and discharge charging systems for the cooling cabinets. The production process follows a comprehensive sequence of melting, alloying, degassing, filtration, casting, cutting, homogenizing, cooling, and packaging.

The Wagstaff casting machine utilized in our new foundry represents one of the most advanced technological solutions in the industry. With six dedicated casting tables, the facility is capable of producing billets in 5”, 6”, 7”, 8”, 9”, and 10” diameters and up to 7,000 mm in length, in standard alloys such as 1050,1070,6005,6060,6061,6063,6463,6082, as well as in tailor-made alloy compositions.

To ensure the required quality for each billet, samples are taken from the molten metal during alloying and from the billet after casting. Spectral analyses and quality inspections are carried out using a high-precision spectrometer.

Following homogenization, additional quality controls—including shell thickness measurement, microstructural examination, segregation analysis, and grain boundary evaluation—are performed to guarantee consistency and excellence across all products.