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MELTING DEPARTMENT Pouring an iron casting.
  • 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
    New Furnaces.
  • Two new 6600 pound Inductotherm Medium Frequency Furnaces installed and operational since October 2001.




MOLDING DEPARTMENT Casting molds.
  • 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

Casting Engineering. 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 Metallurgical testing.
  • 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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