Friday, December 3, 2010

Importance of Metal Casting and its process

Metal Casting is one of the oldest casting processes used for variety of applications like artistic, religious and practical items. Casting is main part of industrial revolution. In India, you can find many small and big casting foundries

Investment casting foundries in India uses standard equipment for metal casting also their engineers have wide knowledge of casting. Find the video here for the process of metal castings. Metal casting is use for hard pieces for models, restoration projects, and making small part for your kitchenware. In India, metal casting is widely uses for creating sculptures and other artistic.



Metal casting has various forms like sand castings, investment casting, and steel castings. Investment Castings  India is one type of metal castings and it is one of the old casting process

In metal casting, metal is molten form and poured in mold so every metal in liquid form. It is one of the dangerous casting method because some metal’s melting point is higher than 1000 degree Fahrenheit, of 550 degrees Celsius so any one who works with this must follow security and safety instruction.

Friday, November 26, 2010

Sand Casting Process - Get Desired Shape at your Home

Sand casting is one of the famous method for casting products and making your desired shape. In India many small investment casting foundries uses this process for making desired shape and auto parts castings


This video is providing information about Sand Casting Process. After this video you can also make your desired part at your home easily but condition its not big parts but small for your home, kitchen etc.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Benefits Of Investment Casting Craft Patterns And Samples

Lost wax casting process is the most accepted procedure for making patterns of virtually anything and everything. This pattern-making process is in vogue since time immemorial! It is an integral part of the manufacturing process. Any new product requires the pattern first. A sample peace is taken out and only after approval it go for the final production.

Even a small button requires the pattern-making first. If you wish to cast a mighty elephant in brass or any other metal, it also requires pattern making first. In the manufacturing process, the only action that precedes pattern making, is the designing on the paper. With the details provided in the design, the pattern maker, call him an engraver, makes the production-worthy pattern.

The second process for pattern making is Investment Casting India. This method is used for a wide range of applications. This has developed into a foremost technique of modern industry. To put it in the proper perspective, the old pattern making industry has been modernized.

Investment casting got the real fillip during 1980 due to the unprecedented growth of the aircraft industry. Investment casting in the foundry industry accounts for 15% of the value of cast metal production. It really is the modernization of an ancient art.

Lost wax casting method, as earlier said was used for making dental inlays, metal sculpture and surgical implants. It was mostly used in making copper and brass statues. Impetus to this craft and thousands of new part patterns were created to meet the demands of the war. Even today this method is used for manufacturing small and big brass, copper and bronze statues.

Pattern making is an art involving lots of intricacies. To become a perfect pattern-maker, it takes anything from 3 to 4 years. Even though computers have taken over the job of making patterns of late, the human expertise required in understanding the patterns for eventually taking out the production out of them, is still important.

In fact, handmade craft patterns do not cost anything. Some sample peaces of the craft are given to the manufacturers and on the basis of that manufacturing process commences. The amount of human labor involved in such craft products is much and patterns come to play their role in the process involved in the basic manufacturing material required for the final product.
Take for example, the production of an item, Christmas hanger-tassel! It is totally handmade, but the beads of different types and sizes roll out of the patterns!

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Sunday, November 14, 2010

Information about Metal Casting and its Benefits

Metal casting is the process in which various metals like aluminum, steel, stainless steel, copper-base alloys and iron are poured in to mold for making desired shape and solidify.

This solid part is known as casting and it is ejected when molding process is completed. In metal casting wide variety of material use as molds but condition is this material is to be durable, and strong and also it’s easily withstand with hot metals. Means it is not burning during molding process. Materials like Wood, limestone, plaster of Paris, and ceramic are widely used in metal casting. These molding materials are re-usable means its use in molding process for more and more time.

In India, various casting foundries uses hot furnace or forge for directly metal blacklisting, or melts for metal casting. Once when metal is molten it can be alloyed with other metal like aluminum, steel and this mixture is carefully poured in molds for metal casting.In India, leading casting foundries uses various metal casting india process like sand casting, investment castings, steel casting, ferrous casting etc.

Advantages of Metal Casting
  • Metal casting us used for manufacturing engineering parts or objects.
  • Automotive parts, pipe and fittings, constructions, mining, oil field equipment and internal combustion engines part are manufactured by metal castings.
  • For government sector, metal casting is uses military vehicles parts like tank, truck, jet engine and other vital components.
  • Metal casting is uses as designed mechanical products for parts with variety of strength.
  • Also used in various steps like machining, forging, and welding.
  • Enables to mold the products into one single unit than manufacturing different parts and assembling those means you do not need to separate manufacture of different parts.
  • Through metal casting, you can exhibit the same properties regardless of which direction is select.
  • Metal casting is uses for Wide range of alloy compositions and properties are produced in cast form.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Aluminum Castings and Component

Today aluminum is widely used for making industrial components and parts. Also used in Automotive prats. Many casting foundries in india uses various casting foundries process like sand cast. steel cast, investment casting for making aluminum parts and components









For more inforamtion about Aluminum Casting please visit :- Casting Manufacturer India

Different Types of Aluminum Castings and their Benefits

In aluminum castings, aluminum is uses for making desired and solid shapes. Aluminum alloy is pouring in different sizes and shapes of mold to getting desired shape in Casting Foundry. In Indian, there are many small and big foundries which manufacturing aluminum castings products.

Many casting foundries uses mold casting, sand casting for manufacturing desired aluminum parts and shape. Generally In Aluminum casting aluminum is melting at low temperature. In this type of casting, molten aluminum is pouring in to different types of pre-designed molds for desired shapes.


Today many casting foundries in india uses various casting process like die casting, investment casting, permanent mold casting, and dies casting for manufacturing aluminum products like  Valve Components, gate valves, globe valves, ball valves and automotive parts

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Stainless Steel Castings Products Benefits - BPNUAHKSASNN

Stainless steel also known as inox steel. Stainless steel is the ordinary steel including the 11% chromium content by mass. Its different form the carbon steel coz stainless steel contains passive film of chromium oxide, which uses as prevention for metals’ surface corrosion. Stainless steel is one type of steel casting in which chromium mixed with steel.

Stainless steel is use for castings with various type of steel. Stainless steel castings deliver enough strength of shock resistance

Stainless steel casting can be make solid parts by heat treatment but its mechanical property is relying on their chemical composition. In addition, it has antibacterial properties

Due to these properties stainless steel castings following benefits
  1. It s used with for manufacturing of valve components, Pump parts including Body, impeller
  2. Its used for making of automotive parts like drum, bracket, steering knuckle housing, transmission housing, rear wheel hub
  3. Its also used in pipe fittings
  4. Its corrosion resistance and staining property gives low maintenance, low cost and base material for commercial applications.
  5. Stainless steel is widely used for manufacturing of aerospace parts, automotive parts, and also used in construction material for large buildings.
  6. Stainless steel castings is used for making parts for kitchen, food processing plants
See herewith Stainless Steel Kitchen Products


For more information about the stainless steel casting please visit :- Steel Casting Manufacturers

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Why choose Investment Castings ?

Today casting process is uses for creating engineering objects, machine big parts, sculptural and ornaments and widely used for creating industrial parts.

Investment casting is the one of the casting process in which shape is forming and place inside the casting metal. Today investment casting is the one of the popular casting method then other casting method like sand casting, ferrous casting ect..

Investment casting have good advantages over sand casting like it can allow for undercuts in the pattern because pattern is vaporized with heat and you achieve better surface  finishing through investment casting.
Step by step process of investment casting procedure.

Today many investment casting manufacturer Company in India use following systematically process like
Form a master pattern: - In this step we first of specify casting patterns like sculpy or modeling both are good pattern for get well and easy shape.

Make a mold:-     Its negative shape for you pattern. Its mixed by casting plaster, sand and water.
Create a hollow wax pattern. For this, you want some things like casting plaster, grit sand, grit sand, and bucket with quart graduations.

Create a hollow wax pattern. -  This is one of the solid pattern in which you heat up the brown wax to fill your mole in the wzc crock-pot. Then you coat the inside of the mold with Vaseline and hold it is together with rubber bands, which wrapped around. After this pour your wax in to the mold and use dental tools for smooth wax.

Attach the gates to the sprue, the sprue to the pouring cup, the gates to the pattern and the vents between the pattern and pouring cup.

Insert core pins if your pattern is hollow.

Assemble your wax with the flask and board.

Invest :- You can mixx water, sand and mold same as when you did created at the mold and invest it in to the site for 24 hours.

Burnout: - After the investment has sat for 24 hours, it is ready for the kiln. You will need to pour the metal immediately after removing from the kiln.

When you purred investment-casting sit into the concrete floor then made heat up for certain time inside the furnace. Now finishing casting process is very time-consuming and difficult process in which first you want to remove the sprues and gates then sand or grind off what is left of the gates then remove the core pins

When you follow above process then you can get top quality casting process products using investment casting

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Why Aluminum is the best option for Heat Sinks?

Aluminum heat sinks die-casting is widely useful then steel casting. Generally heat sinks are used in electronic items or gadgets and appliance. User not seen it directly coz its fitted in gadgets or appliance. Say for example if you have computer then heat sinks are placed over your processor for safety reasons. Its prevent you gadget from heat which provided by gadgets or appliance it self during use due to electric wire and another electronic parts. So your parts or gadget does not damage due to heat.

Heat sinks prevent your gadgets from heat that’s why it is important of electronic devices. Generally heat sinks are made by aluminum. You can manufacture heat sinks using aluminum casting process. Duet to aluminum is flexible and non toughness and non durable its widely used for heat sinks manufacturing. Also aluminum is lighter weight then other metal with same size. So aluminum is idea for heat sinks manufacturing.

Aluminum is lighter in weight and low cost that’s why today many steel castings manufacturer in india uses pure aluminum for manufacturing of various products then steel

For more inforamtion about casting products please visit:- Castings India

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Different type of Castings and its process

Today Castings is used for creating desired and solide shape. Casting helping industries grow. There are different type of castings and process like lost wax casting, die casting, sand casting. Castings is the one type of manufacturing process

Lost wax Castings

This is oldest metal forming or casting process. Lost wax casting used for to manufacturing of huge parts like turbocharger wheels, golf club heads, elect huge variety of parts ranging from turbocharger wheels to golf club heads, from electronic boxes to hip replacement implants. Lost wax casting used for investment castings. Today investment castings are used for aircraft engine and airframe parts. Lost wax investment castings is similar to the Lost Foam Casting in which expendable foam patterns are uses for casting productions. Foam pattern is remaining in mold during metal pouring and it’s replaced by molten metal


Die Casting

Die casting is one of the non expandable casting process. Its one type of process in which molten metal is forced under high pressure into mold cavities. In die casting mold dies is  used again and again for producing variety of casting size, shape and thickness. Parts, which are manufacturing by die casting are heat resistance and maintaining close tolerances. Die casting produces parts with thinner walls, closer dimensional limits, and smoother surfaces




Sand Casting

Sand casting used for make large parts. In sand casting sand used with mold. In sand casting cavity is formed by wood or metal pattern.  Using sand casting method, you can cast large iron bell, and alos small automotive parts. In sand casting, two types of sand used like green sand, which is mixture of silica, and olivine sand. Sand casting is uses for high volume production

Friday, August 13, 2010

Information about Investment castings

Investment Casting and Lost-wax casting is one of the widely known metal formation process or method. The metal application where high-level of integrity is needed, Lost Wax Investment casting is popularly used. High-performance alloys where accuracy matters the most, Lost Wax casting is proven to be efficient.


Practically it is more expensive to use Lost Wax investment casting than sand casting or die-casting. Investment casting process generally used in producing small castings, but now a day large castings are also being manufactured with this type of casting. The major advantage of Lost Wax investment casting is that, it can produce complicated and most difficult casting shapes which might be impossible with die casting. Also, with investment casting we can use almost any metal for casting it. Solidification with Lost wax casting is comparatively slow which sometimes result into low mechanical properties.

Today many investment casting manufacturers uses different types of metal material
Which can be cast with investment casting, they are, steels, bronzes, alloys hastelloys and many others. With Lost Wax casting we get advantage of close tolerances and thus requirement for further machining is eliminated.

For more information about castings process please visit :- Precision Investment Castings Exporters

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Castings History and Application

History of casting is older than 10000 years in this time castings is used for idols, ornaments and jewellery. India's Harappan Civilisation (2500–2000 BC) idols is greate example of lost wax castings



In castings process liquid material is pured into sand mold with hollow cavity of the desired shape. The solidified part is also known as a casting, which is ejected or broken out of the mold to complete the process.In india there are multiple castings manufacturers and exporters uses latest castings technology like lost wax casting, die castings and many more.



Generally Investment casting is used in the aerospace and power generation industries to produce turbine blades with complex shapes or cooling systems.Also its widely used for firearms manufacturers to fabricate firearm receivers, triggers, hammers, and other precision parts at low ost.