Why You Should Choose Aligates

We are custom gates specialists ensuring the highest quality of materials and craftsmanship at every stage of your project, see for yourself below our process from start to finish. 

Our Process

For the assembly we use our own extrusions direct from the mill. On arrival the aluminium goes through a 7-stage dipping process to clean, etch and polymer seal the extrusions both inside and out. This gives protection against the elements and forms the base for the perfect powder coating process.

After this the extrusions are then dried and sent through our powder coating nozzles, once coated the extrusions then pass through our 24m oven to achieve the finish that is guaranteed to keep colour to within 2 pan-tones over 15 years for all architectural finishes. (structura)

Once coated a selection of the extrusions then go on to be wood grained using the sublimation process. This produces up to colour 30 variations which also get the 15-year guarantee.

The process to produce the gates then heads to be cut to length with an accuracy of 0.1 mm. once cut to length the profiles are then CNC machined for all the fixing points and any options ordered.

The next stage is to assemble the gates using a screw and cold-weld polyurethane adhesive process like that of the prestige car market. The automation strengthening and corners are all reinforced and bonded at the same time. The cold-weld corners have over 180kg/cm2 (2600 lbs per square inch) of holding power, stronger than traditional welded gates. The curing time to full strength is 2-3 days.

The advantages of this process are the exceptional strength of the finished gate and the ability to coat the product fully inside and out which gives a superior and more durable paint finish over other processes.