Sand casting in copper, bronze and aluminium alloys using machine moulding or hand/furan moulding. The machine-moulding box is 450 × 600 mm; hand/furan moulding accommodates items up to 3,000 × 2,000 mm. Maximum piece weights are 300 kg for aluminium and 1,000 kg for copper, independent of the dimensional limits. Core production, melting, shot blasting and production checks support delivery. Patterns and surface treatment are available through specialist subcontractors, together with required order certificates.

Machine moulding: box size

450 × 600 mm

Hand/furan moulding: maximum item dimensions

Up to 3000 × 2000 mm

Aluminium casting: maximum piece weight

Up to 300 kg

Copper casting: maximum piece weight

Up to 1000 kg

Pangborn shot blasting: capacity

1500 × 1000 × 1000 mm

Induction melting equipment

Four Inductotherm furnaces

Aluminium melting equipment

Two Nabertherm electric furnaces; aluminium purged with argon

Core production equipment

Two Omega/Disa CO2 core machines; Fordath Mavermix furan mixer for larger cores

Casting quality checks

Maldaner vacuum impregnation; ultrasonic wall-thickness measurement; water and air pressure tests; Oxford spectral analysis