Factory Tour at Alucast

Aluminium Casting Excellence, Skills Development and Sustainable Manufacturing in Practice ⚙️

From molten metal to mission-critical components – all under one roof.

Made in Group members are invited inside Alucast, one of the UK’s most established aluminium casting specialists, approaching 60 years of continuous trading since its establishment in 1967.

Part of the MAN Group and a Made in Group Great 100 company, Alucast operates as a fully integrated aluminium foundry, supplying machined cast components into a wide range of industrial sectors. What makes the business distinctive is the breadth of capability on a single site, combined with long-term investment in people, innovation and sustainable manufacturing.

Best Practice Focus – Capability, People and Sustainability

This factory tour will explore how Alucast has built a resilient, future-focused operation by investing simultaneously in process capability, workforce development and environmental performance.

The focus will be on how a long-established foundry can remain competitive and relevant by:

• Operating multiple aluminium casting routes within one flexible manufacturing base
  
  

• Developing future talent through structured apprenticeship and skills programmes
  
  

• Treating energy management and carbon reduction as a commercial opportunity, not just a compliance exercise
  
  

• Collaborating with industry bodies, academia and innovation partners to support sustainable manufacturing
  
  

The emphasis is on transferable insight – the thinking, decisions and discipline behind the operation – rather than a showcase of equipment.

On the day, you will experience

• End-to-end aluminium casting operations
  A rare opportunity to view all four aluminium casting processes on one site – high pressure, low pressure, gravity and sand casting – alongside CNC machining and assembly operations.

• Process selection and flexibility
  Understand how different casting routes are selected depending on volume, complexity, mechanical performance and cost – from one-off prototypes to series production.

• Carbon reduction as a cost-reduction strategy
  Hear how energy management investment, recycling initiatives and process efficiency improvements are reducing environmental impact while also lowering operating costs.
  
  

• Skills, apprenticeships and collaboration beyond the factory gate
  See how apprentices make up around 6% of the workforce, supported by structured development programmes, industry bodies and academic partnerships – alongside Alucast’s involvement in wider innovation ecosystems linking manufacturing capability to future transport and clean technology projects.

Why Attend?

This tour is designed for manufacturing leaders seeking practical, grounded learning. Whether your focus is casting processes, workforce planning, sustainability or innovation partnerships, this visit offers real-world insight from a UK manufacturer operating with scale, discipline and intent.

Join us to see how nearly six decades of aluminium casting expertise is being shaped for the next generation of manufacturing.

*Due to capacity, attendance may be limited to one delegate per company