Founded in 2000,AP Alloy located in the city of Xingning Meizhou, Guangdong province in China, the international Hakka town, covers an area of around 300,000 square meters. The annual capacity is around 2000 tons, with 90% of what is produced being for overseas clients or for domestic clients for their export products.
AP Alloy focus on investment casting over 18 years,specialises in the production of parts for pumps, valves, machinery components and architectural hardware. These parts can be for various industries, such as for petrochemical industry, water treatment, heavy industrial equipment, pharmaceutical equipment, food processing equipment and building/construction etc. Materials worked with includes (but not limited to): Austenite stainless steel, Martensitic stainless steel, Duplex steel, Carbon steel, Aluminum alloy, Copper alloy etc. Components are produced according to different standards: GB, ASTM, EN, DIN and JIS. Meanwhile, AP Alloy can also aid in the design and development of new products based on our client’s request by supporting with knowledge of casting and machining and offering suggestions to alter designs that will make the casting and machining processes easier thereby increasing the efficiency of your project and minimizing costs.
We value our customers and implement international management concepts such as Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement, and paying particular attention to the importance of coordinating all internal procedures to supply a high quality product and service to our customers. AP Alloy emphasizes the advantage management system as below:
•Environment Management System (EMS)
•ERP
•Casting simulation software program
•QC & QA
•Human resource training
We ensure customer satisfaction by providing all-round services encompassing consistent quality levels and on time delivery.
Advanced Techniques
With strong technical capacity, AP Alloy has produced about 5,000 items in more than 210 different grades of alloy since it started operation. It has the capacity to develop 600 new items per year in short lead time, and certain samples can be completed within a short time by means of rapid 3D print wax pattern. AP Alloy is able to participate in the design of Customers' products, and is able to re-developing customers' products independently. Experts in producing pump parts with complicated structure and various materials, AP Alloy can produce parts with complicated inner cavity by means of special core, the quality is stable and reliable.
AP Alloy won 8 Patents intellectual property of utility model and one Certificate of high and new technology products.AP Alloy is especially good at casting and machining pump parts and Machinery components with a special production line of big-size-wax for producing large castings. It has a casting tolerance range of DCTG3-6, weight ranges from 1g to 352kgs, min. wall thickness is 0.5mm. Mechanical properties, chemical composition and nondestructive testing of castings conformed to international standards. AP Alloy has its own in-house test laboratory to do acceptance inspection of casting material into factory, new material, test or research of new technical.
Outstanding Human Resource
Human resources of AP Alloy are extremely competitive. AP Alloy adheres to the people-oriented, values the talent and team building, keeps to improve the welfare of employees. The staffs are willing to develop together with the company as a big family.
Specially, AP Alloy values to engage middle & high level technology and managers over the land as matching as their specialties, join us and provide facilities for the talent and motivated them to provide training opportunities. We also value company’s echelon building of talents, we cooperated with colleges, now our factory is the base of cooperation in production, learning and research with Meizhou Technician College.
Excellent Equipments
AP Alloy owns over 800 different items of casting and machining equipments.
Approximately of the high technology equipments is imported. Such equipments includes wax injection machine, direct-reading spectrometer, Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM), Computerized Numerical Control (CNC) lathe, VMC (vertical machine center) and etc. The high quality equipment ensures a stable quality of the product.
<1> Adopted advanced automatic wax processing system, imported non-vat wax injector and automatic electric steam de-waxing stove, so that wax processing and wax pattern pressing become semi-automatic.
<2> All of the melting furnaces equipped with argon protection for melting and pouring, ensure the purity of the materials.
<3> Equipped with advanced induction smelting furnace, capacity of 500KG with series high wave power supply, meantime equipped with advanced regenerative trolley roaster, and the effective working size is 2300X1700X1100mm, ensure the ability to make the big size parts which the weight is around 500KG.
<4> Equipped with advanced machining equipments, such as Four-axis machining centre, mill turn CNC and etc, to machine high-precision castings.
Advanced Inspection
Sets of advanced inspection instruments and systematic inspection procedures ensure a reliable control of the product quality from surface to internal.
Several direct-reading spectrometers to control and analyze chemical composition of Fe-based, Ni-based, Cu-based, Al-based alloy as well as Nitrogen element;
Electronic Universal Material Tester to inspect the Physical and Mechanical properties, low temperature (-196 ℃) impact tester to inspect impact value, Hardness testers to inspect hardness value for Brinell hardness, Rockwell hardness, Leeb Hardness;
Internal Structure Examination by Electron Metallurgical Microscope, Ferrite control measuring instruments;
Non-destructive Examination such as Magnetic Particle Examination and Liquid Penetration Examination, Surface Roughness Test, Ultrasonic Testing, X-ray & gamma-ray Examination and endoscopy are used in production.
For Dimension and tolerance control, Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM), Image measuring instrument, thickness gauge as well as a Portable Calibrator, Digital Potentiometer, Infrared Thermometer, Gun-Type thermometer and other Conventional measuring tools and Inspecting Instruments are well equipped.
Moreover, sealing performance test of Hydrostatic, salt spray testing and inter-granular corrosion inspection can be conducted.
Advanced Management System
1. ERP
AP Alloy taken the lead in introducing and using ERP which customized by Huazhong University of Science and Technology in year of 2014, now we are a model of successful operation in this industry through keep practicing, improving and optimizing by us.
2. Always following the technical front of CAD, CAE, CAM in order to expand the technical and manufacturing capacity.
3.8S management has been implemented.
Solid Quality System
The quality system has been steadily improved by implementing quality concepts step by step. AP Alloy got ISO9001:2000 quality system certification by 2005. In 2009 AP Alloy passed the EU Pressure Vessel CE/PED certification. In 2015 AP Alloy got the certificate of DNV-GL. In 2017 AP Alloy passed got ISO9001:2015 certification.
Flexible production
Emphasized the concept of lean manufacture, flexible production is implemented by our production line aim to the marketing demand of multi-specification and small-batch, in addition of product identification and tracking system communed with ERP strongly, AP Alloy well done for just in time of production and on time delivery.