Bronze Alu

Bronze Alu is an aluminium foundry. It runs 15 high-pressure die-casting units (180T to 1100T) and gravity die-casting units for copper-aluminium parts, designs and maintains its own injection moulds, machines castings and forgings, and delivers finished-to-print parts with plastic injection, surface coating, induction hardening, and X-ray and dimensional inspection. Its R&D department includes a metallurgy lab, a mechanical test lab and Magma casting simulation.

Customers are manufacturers in the automotive, aerospace, railway, energy and industrial markets. The company reports that 80% of its sales are exported. It has developed a high-strength aluminium alloy used in a 100% aluminium gearbox fork, and it reports taking an aerospace part from early design to full production in less than four months.

Bronze Alu SAS was established in 2004, when Francis Barge took over the company; its history goes back to 1927 with the founding of Fonderie du CUPRO-ALUMINIUM in France. Its headquarters is in La Couture-Boussey (Eure), and it has a second production site in Pitesti, Romania, where it operates as Bronze Alu Carparti. The company reports 22,000 m² of production floor space and ISO TS 16949 certification. It accepts unsolicited job applications.

Product: Aluminium high-pressure die-cast, gravity die-cast and machined parts, with assembly, surface treatment and inspection, produced to customer print.