Fast Ford – September 2019

What’s the history of Pro Alloy – how and

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Pro Alloy was formed by the current

MD Alex Osborn and his brother-in-law

Wayne Clayden. The pair teamed up at

the beginning of 2004 to form Pro Alloy

Motorsport, with the company fast

becoming renowned for their innovative

ideas and designs, and rapidly developing

into one of the UK’s most respected

companies within their field.

Wayne sadly passed away in 2015

following a short battle with cancer, but

since then Alex has continued to expand

and develop the business, with the

now 20-plus strong team filling their UK

manufacturing facility in Suffolk.

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What are the most popular Fords that

customers come to you for help with?

We’ve always had a very large and loyal

customer base within the Ford community,

which started right back in 2004 with all

the Cosworth and RS Turbo products. Even

after all these years we still have quite a high

demand for this range of products. In more

recent times, the Focus RS has proved to be

an excellent car to be involved with, starting

right back in 2004 with the Mk1. We were

involved with a number of really big-power

Mk1 RS builds which proved to be a great

development platform for many of the Mk1

products we’re still producing fifteen years

later.

ALEX OSBORN

FROM PRO ALLOY

5 MINS WITH...

Pro Alloy are known all over the world for the

excellent products they offer, so we asked MD, Alex

Osborn, what keeps them at the top of their game...

The Mk2 RS was probably one of our

biggest-selling Ford product ranges – during

2008 and 2009 we were heavily involved

with Ford and mountune on the intercooler

design and development for the Focus

RS500, and went on to produce all the

intercoolers for the RS500 which were

supplied directly to the plant in Germany.

We have more recently been very busy

developing and testing a growing range of

products for the Mk3 RS. Running our own

development car has enabled us to carry

out some really extensive performance and

durability tests over the last three years,

allowing us to develop a fairly extensive

selection of parts for the Mk3 platform.

The range of Mk7 Fiesta ST products

we have developed is pretty impressive

too, with this great little car proving to be

really popular with such a broad range of

customers. We’ve worked very closely with a

number of the tuning companies developing

and refining all the parts we produce for the

Mk7, and have also benefited from having

our own track car to help us figure out what

works and what doesn’t. Even though the

Mk7 has been around for a number of years

now, we are still seeing really strong sales on

a number of the parts we produce for it.

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You’re currently developing products for

the Mk8 Fiesta ST, aren’t you? What’s in

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A number of the tuning companies have

already found some great potential

with tuning the Mk8, so we’re starting

to see a growing requirement for a

really good intercooling solution. We are

currently working in conjunction with SCC

Performance and their development Mk8

Fiesta, so hope to have a new intercooler in

place very shortly.

What do you see as the future of Ford

WXQLQJ"b

The evolution over the last few years of

smaller-capacity turbocharged production

cars has actually been really good for

the performance road car market, as

most of these cars have fantastic tuning

potential. This has enabled Pro Alloy to

expand our range of products over a much

broader number of vehicle platforms

and has given us a much greater range

of product development opportunities

for the performance road car element of

the business. We’re even involved with

hybrid technology too, providing our heat

exchanger technology for motor, battery

and inverter cooling, even to supercar

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b

What’s in store for Pro Alloy over the next

five years or so?

Things are actually really exciting for us

at the moment. We have recently put

significant investment into our production

facility here in the UK, developing a new

manufacturing plant for building our

radiator, intercooler and oil cooler heat

exchanger cores in-house. This now enables

us to offer a broader range of products as

well as giving us greater control over quality

and lead times. This facility will enable us to

further expand our existing business, but

also grow into other industry sectors.

CONTACTS

PRO ALLOY

01440 710266

http://www.proalloy.co.uk

SEPTEMBER 2019 FAS T FOR DȽȭ

What’s the history of Pro Alloy – how and

ZKHUHGLGLWDOOVWDUW"b

Pro Alloy was formed by the current

MD Alex Osborn and his brother-in-law

Wayne Clayden. The pair teamed up at

the beginning of 2004 to form Pro Alloy

Motorsport, with the company fast

becoming renowned for their innovative

ideas and designs, and rapidly developing

into one of the UK’s most respected

companies within their field.

Wayne sadly passed away in 2015

following a short battle with cancer, but

since then Alex has continued to expand

and develop the business, with the

now 20-plus strong team filling their UK

manufacturing facility in Suffolk.

b

What are the most popular Fords that

customers come to you for help with?

We’ve always had a very large and loyal

customer base within the Ford community,

which started right back in 2004 with all

the Cosworth and RS Turbo products. Even

after all these years we still have quite a high

demand for this range of products. In more

recent times, the Focus RS has proved to be

an excellent car to be involved with, starting

right back in 2004 with the Mk1. We were

involved with a number of really big-power

Mk1 RS builds which proved to be a great

development platform for many of the Mk1

products we’re still producing fifteen years

later.

ALEX OSBORN

FROM PRO ALLOY

5 MINS WITH...

Pro Alloy are known all over the world for the

excellent products they offer, so we asked MD, Alex

Osborn, what keeps them at the top of their game...

The Mk2 RS was probably one of our

biggest-selling Ford product ranges – during

2008 and 2009 we were heavily involved

with Ford and mountune on the intercooler

design and development for the Focus

RS500, and went on to produce all the

intercoolers for the RS500 which were

supplied directly to the plant in Germany.

We have more recently been very busy

developing and testing a growing range of

products for the Mk3 RS. Running our own

development car has enabled us to carry

out some really extensive performance and

durability tests over the last three years,

allowing us to develop a fairly extensive

selection of parts for the Mk3 platform.

The range of Mk7 Fiesta ST products

we have developed is pretty impressive

too, with this great little car proving to be

really popular with such a broad range of

customers. We’ve worked very closely with a

number of the tuning companies developing

and refining all the parts we produce for the

Mk7, and have also benefited from having

our own track car to help us figure out what

works and what doesn’t. Even though the

Mk7 has been around for a number of years

now, we are still seeing really strong sales on

a number of the parts we produce for it.

b

You’re currently developing products for

the Mk8 Fiesta ST, aren’t you? What’s in

WKHSLSHOLQHIRUWKHIXWXUH"b

A number of the tuning companies have

already found some great potential

with tuning the Mk8, so we’re starting

to see a growing requirement for a

really good intercooling solution. We are

currently working in conjunction with SCC

Performance and their development Mk8

Fiesta, so hope to have a new intercooler in

place very shortly.

What do you see as the future of Ford

WXQLQJ"b

The evolution over the last few years of

smaller-capacity turbocharged production

cars has actually been really good for

the performance road car market, as

most of these cars have fantastic tuning

potential. This has enabled Pro Alloy to

expand our range of products over a much

broader number of vehicle platforms

and has given us a much greater range

of product development opportunities

for the performance road car element of

the business. We’re even involved with

hybrid technology too, providing our heat

exchanger technology for motor, battery

and inverter cooling, even to supercar

PDQXIDFWXUHUVVXFKDV5LPDFb

b

What’s in store for Pro Alloy over the next

five years or so?

Things are actually really exciting for us

at the moment. We have recently put

significant investment into our production

facility here in the UK, developing a new

manufacturing plant for building our

radiator, intercooler and oil cooler heat

exchanger cores in-house. This now enables

us to offer a broader range of products as

well as giving us greater control over quality

and lead times. This facility will enable us to

further expand our existing business, but

also grow into other industry sectors.

CONTACTS

PRO ALLOY

01440 710266

http://www.proalloy.co.uk

SEPTEMBER 2019 FAS T FOR DȽȭ