Aluminum License Plate Blanks

Vehicle license plates start as coated or bare aluminium strip that plate makers blank, emboss and finish. This supplier lists the feedstock on both of its product sites: License Car Plate Strip among the application strips on the coil-strip site (with coil stock, slit coil, flat strip, armoured cable strip, insulated glass strip, air duct strip, corner strip, shutter strip and transformer strip), and Car License Aluminium Strip in the full-range site's strip family. Two listings, one product family: strip for license plate production.

License plate blanks — documented data

Product names (as listed)	License Car Plate Strip; Car License Aluminium Strip
Form	Strip (coil) for blanking
Neighbour distinction	Sign blanks plate is a different product — general signage substrate (own page)
Dated specification instance (full-range site, 4.03.2016)	EN AW 1050A, temper H22, 1.0 mm −0.03 mm; strip widths 46.2 / 101.2 / 121.2 / 201.2 mm (−0.2 mm); coil OD 1830 / 1220 mm, ID 500 mm
Surface (same dated specification)	Top side degreased and chromatised (≥25–30 mg Cr/m²); reverse side chromatised and lacquered (≥2 µm)
Current sizes & finishes	Confirmed per enquiry — the dated instance above is a documented example, not a standing range claim

The full-range site's car license strip page carries a dated technical specification (4.03.2016) for one plate programme: EN AW 1050A in H22 at 1.0 mm, in four strip widths, with a degreased, chromatised top side and a chromatised, lacquered reverse. That instance documents what a plate strip specification looks like for this supplier; it is dated and programme-specific, not a standing size range — blank dimensions follow national plate formats, and reflective or pre-coated finishes are specification items the quotation confirms.

A useful enquiry states the plate format (dimensions of the finished plate), whether the strip should arrive bare, coated or reflective-ready, the alloy and temper if your plate standard fixes them, and the tonnage programme. The quotation confirms each point against the strip listings.

Plate strip in the application strip range

License plate strip belongs to the coil-strip site's application strip group, and its neighbours explain its format: coil stock and slit coil (the supply forms), flat strip, armoured cable strip, insulated glass strip, air duct strip, corner strip, shutter strip and transformer strip — every one a slit coil product sold by end use. License plate strip is the same kind of product: a slit coil of controlled width and gauge, delivered to a plate line that blanks it to plate format. The full-range site listing the same product as Car License Aluminium Strip confirms it is a standing range item rather than a one-off. Because plate formats are national and finishes are contractual, there is no standing size range — one documented instance is the full-range site's dated 2016 specification for a single programme — so the enquiry fixes the plate dimensions, the strip width that yields them, the surface state (bare or prepared for reflective finishing) and the programme tonnage, and the quotation answers against the two documented listings.

Plate makers qualifying a new strip source normally run a blanking and embossing trial first: the strip must blank cleanly, emboss without edge cracking at the plate characters, and take the reflective or print finish the national specification requires. A trial coil against your plate format is the natural first order here — the listings establish the product, the trial establishes the settings, and programme tonnage follows a passed trial rather than a catalogue promise.