A specific economic Ambatolampy, a city between Antananarivo and Antsirabe 75km from the N7 towards Antsirabe, is home-made aluminum cookware.

The aluminum used comes mainly from recovery : rims, car parts, etc. The artisans collect all kinds of aluminum residues, bring together and fuse them into a brick oven. The metal has a very low melting point and can be recycled almost endlessly often.

The different stages of production craft pots

First of all, must be melted aluminum in a container for a few minutes until effervescence.

To produce new pots, new dishes or artwork, fine sand, noir, such as black sand is put into a rectangular shape in wood and hammered. This sand is found only in the area of ​​Ambatolampy. An already finished product, eg. a cooking pot, is pressed inside to obtain a matrix. Each mold consists of two pieces made like this, which are assembled and fitted with a tube for filling the liquid aluminum. The hot metal, hot, is cast using a large cup in the mold. After less than a minute, aluminum has solidified and can be obtained.

A great finishing touch before delivering or selling pots market

Finally, all edges are trimmed and polished, and freshly mold piece moves for sale. Almost all aluminum dishes that you can buy everywhere in Madagascar is made Ambatolampy.

The architect of the city Ambatolampy work barefoot and without any protection within the pungent steam, this is why the work inside the aluminum smelters is very dangerous. Only experienced workers are allowed to work with the shiny metal, and transmitted their knowledge about youth for decades. The average life expectancy of these poor bastards must be very low. Labor conditions, metal melted without good ventilation generate accidents / diseases sordid.