Alcast Company

Alcast Company of Peoria, Illinois USA was founded in 1970 and is an ISO / TS 16949 registered permanent mold aluminum foundry, supplier, and manufacturer of high quality American made permanent mold aluminum castings with over 130,000 square feet of manufacturing space. We currently supply aluminum castings up to 220 pounds in quantities of 10 to 400 and one pound castings with volumes exceeding 500,000 pieces per year. The Alcast Company facilities also include a full CNC machine shop; therefore, our castings can be machined, balanced, broached, shaped and more in house.

Alcast Company in Peoria, Illinois is a leading manufacturer of aluminum castings. Using Alcast's proprietary low pressure, bottom fill, ELECTRO-MAGNETIC, permanent molding machines provide very high integrity products. The aluminum foundry's casting machinery, along with much of its shell core machinery, is constructed and maintained internally. This not only provides a low cost structure for customers but also minimizes machine down time. This gives Alcast Company's aluminum foundry the added advantage of not only being experts on permanent mold aluminum castings, but also experts with the foundry equipment and processes used to produce them.

• We manufacture many styles of high quality brake caliper castings for various recreational vehicles and motorcycles. Many of these cast aluminum brake calipers are; shot blasted for a natural matte finish, painted, or even chrome plated.
• Our aluminum foundry uses a the magic of ELECTRO-MAGNETIC forces in our permanent mold aluminum casting process to produce many high quality recreational vehicle and automotive brake master cylinders.
• We designed our proprietary low pressure, bottom fill, ELECTRO-MAGNETIC, perm. mold casting process in Peoria, Illinois specifically to provide top quality aluminum torque converter castings. Using our proprietary shell core process we can provide exceptionally smooth surface finishes. Using segmented, helically drawn or single piece cores we can manufacture very exotic blade configurations for transmission components.
• The alum. foundry also supplies many components for industrial fans, blowers, and impellers including those with cast in steel studs.
• We manufacture many porosity free and leak free valve bodies in the aluminum foundry. These castings can be internally cored and can also be machined. Many of our cast aluminum valve bodies are used in hydrostatic transmissions in the lawn and garden and heavy equipment industries.
• Using both tilt pour and the proprietary ELECTRO-MAGNETIC, low pressure, aluminum casting processes we are highly experienced in manufacturing cast aluminum cooler plates with cast-in steel tubes. Steel inserts can also be cast into many of our products, such as bearing housings, cooler plates & housings, industrial fan blades, torque converters, and many more alum. castings.
• We are highly experience in supplying a wide variety of cast aluminum products. If we do not currently cast parts similar to your application we are always ready for a new challenge!