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FACILITIES MELTING DEPARTMENT Furnaces #6 Whiting Cupola 2 Induction Coreless furnaces Melt Capacity - 1,200 Tons Per Month Metals Poured Class 25 to Class 45 grey iron all to ASTM Specifications High alloy Ductile and Grey Iron Pearlitic and Ferritic Ductile Casting Size 50 to 15,000 pounds Two new 6600 pound Inductotherm Medium Frequency Furnaces installed and operational since October 2001. MOLDING DEPARTMENT Core Media - Airset, No-bake, CO2, Shell, Isocure, SO2 Molding Media - Chemically Bonded Molding Equipment (Flask & Flaskless) Airset Sand Mixers (250, 500, & 2 @ 600 lbs. per minute) Cope and Drag (12x12 to 96x96) Loose Piece Floor Molding (12x12 to 96x96) Loose Piece Bench Molding (12x12 to 96x96) Mechanical Thermal Sand Reclamation FOUNDRY ENGINEERING Pattern Material - Wood, aluminum, iron, epoxy, and plastics Pattern Shop - For Wood pattern work, gating and rigging Pattern Layout - Dimensional Repurging QUALITY CONTROL Staffing - Metallurgical Engineer and Quality Control Technician. Metal Tests Employed - Tensile strength, brinell hardness, spectrographic chemical analysis, chill wedge, carbon equivalent, temperature through immersion pyrometer and photomicrographic analysis. Metallurgical Standards Are Evaluated Daily By An Independent Testing Laboratory.

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