Aluminio TIMESA: 30 years making pots and steamers with Almexa aluminum circles
Aluminio TIMESA makes pots, steamers, casseroles and pans in Mexico City for homes, restaurants, hotels and industrial cafeterias. For 30 years it has made them with Almexa aluminum circles: today it buys 40 to 50 metric tons a month.
Updated 2026-10-19
- Years as an Almexa customer
- 30
- Circles per month
- 40 to 50 t
- Alloy and temper
- 1100-O
- Circle diameter
- 160 to 1,100 mm
“Excellent service, quality and price. Deliveries on time and as agreed. Always there to cover our company’s needs and urgent requests.”
C.P. Humberto Tinoco, owner and CEO of Aluminio TIMESA (translated from Spanish)
Who Aluminio TIMESA is
Aluminio TIMESA was founded in 1996 in the Gustavo A. Madero borough of Mexico City. It makes aluminum cookware: steamer pots, straight and convex pots, rice pots, casseroles, paella pans, saucepans, griddles, baking molds and frying pans, in standard gauge and in its 3 mm heavy-gauge line ("triple fuerte"). The largest steamers in its catalog measure 50 cm across and 61 cm tall, with a 120-liter capacity. In 2017 it launched ODISEA, its painted and nonstick line.
It sells in Mexico and also in the United States and South America.
The challenge: a reliable local supplier
For a pot maker, the circle is the raw material for everything else: if it does not arrive on time, the deep drawing line stops and its customers' orders run late. What TIMESA was looking for, and could not find, was a reliable local supplier: with inconsistent service there is no way to schedule production, and with variable quality every lot is a surprise at the press.
Why it chose Almexa
- Quality: circles that behave the same on the press, lot after lot.
- Response times and a service guarantee.
- Origin: aluminum cast and rolled in Mexico, at the Cuautitlán Izcalli plant, in the same metropolitan area as its factory.
What Almexa does for TIMESA
Almexa supplies it with 1100 aluminum circles in O temper, the most ductile condition and the one that stretches best when deep drawing a pot or a tall steamer. They range from 160 to 1,100 mm (6.3 to 43.3 in) in diameter, from the standard line up to the 3 mm (0.118 in) of its heavy-gauge line, at 40 to 50 metric tons a month.
Deliveries arrive on time and as agreed. With that, TIMESA schedules production with real dates and serves its own customers on time.
What changed, according to TIMESA
- Service: inconsistent before; with Almexa, scheduled with real dates.
- Quality: variable before; consistent with Almexa.
What a pot maker needs from a circle
- Ductility for deep drawing: that is why 1100 in O temper for pots and tall steamers.
- Even thickness across the circle, so the wall and the bottom come out uniform.
- A diameter sized to each part: a circle too large is scrap and one too small does not fill the die.
- Scheduled deliveries: without circles, the deep drawing line stops.
If you make pots, steamers or pans, here is the specification:
- Aluminum circles 5.51 to 48 in, 0.0220 to 0.1575 in
- Aluminum for cookware alloy and temper by part
- Which alloy to use for deep drawing 1050, 1100, 3003 and 3004 compared
- Aluminum origin if you export to the United States, like TIMESA
Sources
- Aluminio TIMESA: official website (in Spanish) products and contact.
Frequently asked questions
Which aluminum circles does Aluminio TIMESA use for its pots?
1100 aluminum circles in O temper, 160 to 1,100 mm (6.3 to 43.3 in) in diameter and up to 3 mm (0.118 in) thick, made by Almexa in Cuautitlán Izcalli, Mexico.
How much aluminum does Aluminio TIMESA buy from Almexa?
40 to 50 metric tons of circles a month, according to company figures from October 2026. It has been an Almexa customer for 30 years.
What does Aluminio TIMESA make and where is it?
Aluminum steamer pots, pots, rice pots, casseroles, paella pans, griddles and frying pans, since 1996, in the Gustavo A. Madero borough of Mexico City. Its ODISEA line, painted and nonstick, launched in 2017.