Almetron offer an extensive range of chemicals used in the anodising Industry, both a standard range and bespoke products to meet the clients’ needs. We will work closely with you, using our vast experience and industry knowledge to provide an appropriate and cost-effective solution.

ANODISING

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Cleaners and Degreasers for all metal
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Aluminium etches and etch additives
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Pre and post anodising treatment chemical

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Rinse aids and flocculants
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Deoxidisers and desmuts
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Dyes and electrocolouring salts
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Hot sealing additives
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Cold sealing solutions and salts
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Extrusion die stripping solutions and additives

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Dosing equipment
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Explore our Anodising Product Range

Our aluminium etching technologies have been developed to produce the best possible finishes in terms of masking die lines and markings associated with extruding rolling. We are able to achieve the most matt appearance with the minimum of metal removal, thereby considerably reducing environmental impact and operational costs.

Within our etching technology we have developed a dual stage system producing a very matt surface with less than 25 g/m2 metal removal.

EHS 80

SURESEAL 8596MT

🡮 Degreasing

Almetron provides a range of degreasing cleaners in powder and liquid form.

Liquid Cleaners

LQ8
LQ18
LQ20
LQ196

Powder Cleaners

C40
C44
C50

🡮 Desmutting

Almetron acknowledges that the majority of etching processes result in residual metallic smuts remaining. We have various low impact technologies available to tackle this. Our professional, experienced laboratory team can also formulate bespoke blends to suit our clients' specific requirements including formulas to use up spent sulphuric acid and convert into desmut blends.

Desmuts

Desmut D6
Desmut D17
Desmut D20
Desmut D21
Desmut D70

Desmut Additives

Desmut Additive D17
Desmut Additive D24
Desmut Additive D70

🡮 Brightening

Over the years we have developed and tested a broad range of Full Bright and Semi Bright solutions that offer an extensive range of achievable finishes. We can also provide the options of including both Fume Suppressants and Anti-Transfer Additives, depending upon the application and your requirements. AnoBrite is our Semi-Bright option and HiBrite provides a Full Bright finish.

Semi Specular Brightness

AnoBrite 501
AnoBrite 502
AnoBrite 503

Full Specular Brightness

HiBrite 601x2
HiBrite 601x5
HiBrite 601x7
HiBrite 601x9
HiBrite 601x11

🡮 Colouring

Almetron offers all types of dye colour and can work with the client to find the required shade before manufacture.

Electrolytic Colouring

SN20 (Electrocolour system based on tin salts)

Inorganic Dyetuff

Surefast Gold

Organic Dyestuff

Suretone Blue
Suretone Fuchsia
Suretone Orange
Suretone Olive Green
Suretone Red
Surefast Black AL-B
Surefast Black AL-H

🡮 Etchants

Almetron provides Etch Additives for use in Caustic Soda based Etch baths or Pre-blended caustic etches ready to use. Each of our additives is a unique blend, providing different characteristics in the etching solution helping to produce the desired surface finish.

Almetron has been developing its Etch's to suit specific customer requirements over the last four decades, providing the user with bespoke products, enabling them to improve productivity and reduce both energy and product consumption. Our formulations can produce high or low gloss matt finishes to your requirement. Our technology is fully support by our high levels of technical support wherever you may be situated.

In line with ECHA's current concerns with PFABS, Almetron replaced or removed these ingredients from its products at the begining of 2022.

Etch Additives

88A
EA 5
EA 8
EA 9
EA 15
EA 27
EA 28

Caustic Etch Blends

Our Caustic Etch blends are an all in one product containing the correct measurements of caustic and additive to dose straight into an etch bath.

Caustic Etch 99
Caustic Etch 1005
Caustic Etch 1008
Caustic Etch 1009
Caustic Etch 1015
Caustic Etch 1015W
Caustic Etch 1025

🡮 Anodising

Almetron provide Sulphuric Acid between 10-96%. A range of anodising ddditives which enhance the performance of the bath. These include;

Anogex 35 - An additive for use in sulphuric acid anodising baths to produce anodised films with a greater hardness.

FS20 Fume Suppressant - Designed to control the release of fume and mist from the free surface of the working baths of these processes.

🡮 Seals

Almetron provides a range of seals which include Cold Seals, Mid-Temperature Seals and Hot Seals. Additionally, Almetron offers a Pre-Seal which reduces the sealing time required.

Pre-Seal

EHS 80

Cold Seals

SureSeal® CS100
SureSeal® CS100M
SureSeal® CS200

Mid-Temperature Seals

Sureseal® 8596MT

Hot Seals

OxySeal HS99
OxySeal HS100
OxySeal HS994
OxySeal HS997
SureSeal® HS1250