Foil & Light Gauge – Service Centre Capability

The Knight Group operates dedicated foil and light-gauge metal service centres, providing stockholding, processing and technical support to manufacturers across the UK and Europe.

Our foil service centres support customers through:
• Extensive stockholding of aluminium foil and light-gauge materials for rapid response
• Processing and conversion of foil into formats ready for downstream manufacturing and application
• Low MOQs with flexibility to support prototype, low-volume and series production
• Fast turnaround supported by in-house processing capability

Foil products and supply formats include:
• Aluminium foil supplied across a broad thickness range from ultra-thin foil through to approximately 0.5 mm
• Narrow-width slit foil through to wide web formats up to 1560 mm
• Supply in standard reel sizes and customer-specific formats
• Foil suitable for insulation, cable wrap, packaging, electrical and industrial applications

Value-added foil processing capability:
• Precision slitting and shearing
• Cut sheets, cut shapes, discs and washers
• Rewinding to customer-defined formats and core sizes
• Perforating, embossing and specialist forming
• Printing and decorative finishes
• Laminated constructions including foil-to-paper and foil-to-polyester
• Heat-seal coated, lacquered and printed foil solutions

Materials and constructions supported include:
• Aluminium foil and light-gauge aluminium alloys
• Laminated foil constructions
• Coated, lacquered and printed foil
• Tissue-backed and specialist composite formats

Technical and supply chain support – why choose our service centres:
• Bespoke product formats tailored to application requirements
• Reduced in-house handling and conversion
• Consistent, repeatable supply for production environments
• Fast turnaround supported by extensive stockholding
• Established global supply chains supporting resilient, on-time delivery
• Service centre capability supporting local and international customers