ALUMINIUM IMPACT EXTRUSIONS FOR DEFENCE AND MARITIME APPLICATIONS

Ashfield have a long history of serving leading defence organisations, government and commercial contracts in the UK, USA, Europe and Australia. ITAR and export control regulations are rigorously followed.

Applications include:

• numerous countermeasure decoy cases – 118, 218, various MJUs, round, square and rectangular
• pyrotechnics
• flares
• smoke canisters / screening products
• numerous cartridge cases and inners – CS, hi-lo chamber, impulse cartridges, non-lethal, etc
• nose cones
• rocket motors and flight tubes

Processes and finishes include:

• customer identification embossed into extruded base at no extra cost
• heat treatment and annealing
• CNC machining
• coating and printing – including printing lot numbers
• screen printing
• surface treatment: Alocrom, Surtec, Irridite, decorative and performance anodising

Marking is easily applied to military or commercial products by external coating and printing. Tactile marking can also be applied by stamping or embossing. Customer identification marking can be incorporated into the base at extrusion stage to guarantee its presence and save additional process costs.