High-grade steel foundry

Equipment and manufacturing processes

• Induction furnaces, 600 - 6000 kg
• Vacuum furnaces, 600 + 3000 kg
• Automatic core shooter and hand core shop
• Hand moulding shop
• Cold-setting resin moulding machines

Moulding processes

• Cold-setting resin sand mould casting
• Binder system: Alpha-Set
• Moulding base material (silica sand or special sands zircon, chrome ore)

Product classification

• Castings of small and medium series production
• Single castings with diameters up to 6000 mm
• Raw casting weights from a few kg to 10,000 kg

Range of materials

• Highly-alloyed cast materials based on iron, nickel and cobalt
• Duplex - Superduplex
• NiCu alloys
• Pure nickel
• Materials overview

Material properties

• Corrosion and heat-resistant
• Non-magnetizable
• Wear-resistant

Planning and consulting services

• Product development and optimization
• Cost calculation, production planning and control
• Casting design
• Pour simulation 3D-CAD
• Pattern design of wood, plastics and metal
• Value analyses, prototype development

Certifications and approvals

• ISO 9001:2000 LRQA
• Pressure Equipment Directive 97/23/EC with AD 2000 codes W0 and HP0
• Germanischer Lloyd
• Det Norske Veritas
• B W B
• NORSOK STANDARD M-DP-001
• Additional qualifications and approvals by companies and classification societies

Machining

Technology and equipment

Machining capabilities

• Premachining and finishing
• Component manufacture
• Contract machining
• Maschinenliste

Quality assurance

• Chemical lab
• Corrosion lab
• Micrographic examination
• Test lab
• Destructive and non-destructive testing
• X-ray fluorescence analysis
• Emission spectrometry