Foundry Alloys

The foundry alloys created in the Qatalum casthouse are of a high quality with a minimal amount of iron content. The production of foundry alloys is undertaken the ISO/TS 16949 certification. The main customers belong to the automotive industry.

Foundary alloys

Ingot size

10kg
23kg

 

Standard Bundle sizes

500 - 1000 kgs

 

Bundles are marked and labelled

Ingot Bundle
weights kg
Bundle
configuration
Bundle size
WxLxH (mm)
Foot-ingot
Height (mm)
Foot-ingot
distance (mm)
Strapping Wrapping
10 kg 1070 15 x 7 725 x 725 x 1090 68 500 Polyester No wrapping
23 kg 1000 8 x 5740 x 740 x 1026 na na Polyester No wrapping

Main alloys

Range from ALSi7 to ALSi11 alloys
Other alloys on request

 

Furnaces

3 furnaces of 66 metric tonnes
4 furnaces of 55 metric tonnes
Inline treatments of potroom metal and foundry alloys

 

Standard Ingots
Qatalum is LME registered and the standard ingots may be delivered to official LME warehouses across the world.

Alloys

Element
 
Alloy
Fe
(wt%)
Max
Si
(wt%)
Max
Ga
(wt%)
Max
V
(wt%)
Max
Zn
(wt%)
Max
Others
Each (wt%)
Max
Others
Total (wt%)
Max
Al
P1020A 0.20 010 0.04 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.10 Remainder
P1015A 0.15 010 0.04 0.03 0.03 0.02 0.10 Remainder
P0610A 0.10 0.06 0.04 0.03 0.03 0.02 0.05 Remainder
P0608A 0.08 0.06 0.03 0.02 0.03 0.02 0.05 Remainder