Introduction to the MJ Allen Non Ferrous Foundry

After the formation of our Pattern Shop, it was a natural progression for us to seek to provide a casting service. The objective took shape with the incorporation of our Non-Ferrous Foundry in 1964.

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Sand reuse yields significant savings for foundry

MJ Allen provides ferrous and non ferrous castings in the UK and abroad. As for many cast metal producers, MJ Allen were incurring significant disposal costs for spent foundry sand from the metal casting process. While sand is recycled on site as far as possible, it eventually loses the properties required for moulds. NISP was contacted by MJ Allen’s site in Kent to look for alternative solutions for nearly 500 tonnes of sand being sent to landfill every year.

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Diesel Engine castings

The MJ Allen Non Ferrous Foundry supplies a wide range of aluminium castings for engine manufacturers for trains, marine and power generation applications.

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50 years of Patternmaking and Casting

The M.J.Allen Group celebrated 50 years of excellence in engineering in 2008 in style......

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Aluminium castings to the Defence Industry

Please find examples of aluminium castings that we have produced for the Defence Industry in the attached gallery

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M.J.Allen Group helping to save lives

The M.J.Allen Group is a key supplier to the manufacturer of Acuity Medical Systems. We are part of an important supply chain creating a product family that treats 100,000 people a day and saves 200,000 lives every year. We provide the Aluminium LM25 Gantry Arm used in the radiation 0ncology equipment for the imaging and treatment of cancer. Finished Casting weight is 250 kgs

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Morgan MMS Recuperative Gas Baleout Furnace

It is a refreshing break from the current fleet of businesses sinking beneath the waves of economic recession to see a well respected business like MJ Allen celebrating 50 years of pattern making and casting by commissioning their first manufacturing cell. Family run since 1958,theMJ Allen group is a small but diverse company based in Ashford, Kent, covering many facets of engineering including pattern making, casting aluminium and iron alloys, CNC machining, automotive and architectural engineering, press tooling, sheet metal machinery,and precision measurement.

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