Technical Consulting & Services


The Zhengzhou Institute of Light Metal Research is a leading large-scale research institute specializing in light metals and serves as the R&D center for China Aluminum Corporation. It boasts an outstanding platform for researching, piloting, scaling up, and mass-producing high-performance non-ferrous alloy materials, positioning it among the world’s top institutions in new materials research and development. Leveraging the 9-level maturity model for material technology development, our company is dedicated to the research and innovation of high-performance, low-volume, multi-variety specialty alloys—as well as advanced materials for defense industries. Additionally, we offer comprehensive technical consulting and services tailored to your needs.

1. Technical Services for the Aluminum-Titanium-Boron Grain Refiner Production Line

Including complete services such as all processes, non-standard equipment, and quality testing, along with a signed product quality contract.

2. Non-ferrous metal die casting process design services.

Metal mold casting offers advantages such as high product quality and efficient production. However, since the cores in metal molds lack yieldability, their application range is significantly limited. Our company has developed metal mold cores with yield characteristics, making them ideal for casting components with deep holes and tubular shapes—thus expanding the versatility of metal mold casting.

3. Thermal-top mold casting technical services for tubes, rods, and flat ingots made from aluminum alloy, zinc alloy, and lead alloy.

Our company provides customers with design and equipment manufacturing services for aluminum, zinc, and lead tube, rod, and flat ingot production lines. The thermal-top mold casting process offers excellent gas and slag removal capabilities, enabling high casting speeds while ensuring products are free from cold-lap defects, featuring fine-grained structures and minimal levels of entrapped gas and slag. Additionally, this technology allows for reduced thickness in the cast flat ingots after surface treatment. Our company’s advanced thermal-top mold flat ingot casting technology delivers superior product quality and consistent, reliable processes—plus, it supports automatic oil lubrication even for large-sized ingots, resulting in outstanding surface finish quality.

4. New Casting Process Services for Zinc Alloy Worm Gears

Using zinc instead of copper to produce zinc-alloy worm gears offers advantages such as high strength and excellent wear resistance. However, the casting process for this product is critical in determining its overall performance. Our company’s newly developed casting technology ensures superior product quality and consistently stable performance, easily meeting or exceeding national standards.

5. Providing production technology services for a wide range of high-performance aluminum-based intermediate alloys

The production of master alloys typically requires high temperatures, and high levels of gas and oxide inclusions are common issues in the manufacturing process. Our company offers customers tailored process services to minimize or eliminate these defects, ultimately enhancing product quality.

6. Surface Treatment Technical Services for Aluminum and Magnesium Alloys

Zhengzhou Light Alloy Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd. offers a variety of surface treatment processes, including micro-arc oxidation, electrophoresis, chemical plating, plasma spraying, and more.

Surface treatment technical services include corrosion and protection of non-ferrous alloys, as well as surface coating processes. Light Research Alloy leverages advanced analysis of non-ferrous alloy corrosion behavior, corrosion rate testing, and in-depth research into corrosion mechanisms. Based on the unique corrosion characteristics of each alloy, combined with specific requirements such as conductivity, thermal conductivity, and wear resistance, we develop tailored surface treatment solutions to provide customers with comprehensive corrosion and protection strategies for magnesium, aluminum, and other non-ferrous alloys. Additionally, the company offers customized surface treatment services to meet clients' specialized performance needs for non-ferrous alloys.