Converting alloys or scrap into molten material to fill a mold — in high-volume or batch processing, fuel-fired or electrically powered — these are the processes at the heart of metalcasting operations.
STIMIR's TMMS 200 metal level sensor is a sensitive, accurate non-contact displacement sensor on a mobile arm with an accuracy of ±0.5 mm. A processor-controlled stepping motor moves the sensor arm, measuring the metal level in real time and...
ALLIED MINERAL PRODUCTS' V-CAST 700 series castables are a line of ultra-low water castables, designed for molten iron contact areas in channel furnaces, cupolas, transfer ladles, lauders, receivers, troughs and runners, and other molten metal...
FRECH's cold-chamber diecasting machine, the DAK 450M, has an automated feeding system. The machine includes DataDialog control system, which reduces trial and error of manual machine set-up to the simplicity of calling up the parameters for the...
To minimize exposure to high power rates, induction melters should optimize operating and maintenance practices, and evaluate equipment and generator systems.
Working together, foundry operators and their suppliers are finding successful approaches for identifying, selecting, and implementing technologies that improve these emissions problems. Reactions between the sand and the resins, solvents, and...
After nearly a quarter century powering iron melting at Acheson Foundry in Chattanooga, TN, everyone agreed it was time to replace the Inductotherm 400 kW Power-Trak induction power supply. "It paid for itself many times over," explains vice...
A new 38 ton/hour cupola melt system with state-of the-art pollution control has been designed for China's Weichai Power Ltd., to provide molten metal for producing 10-13-liter engine blocks. Weichai is one of the largest domestic producers of...
Proprietary sodium oxide flux in pre-weighed 1-pound bags (top) and pressed briquettes (bottom) weighing 15 and 45 grams. A 2,000-lb ladle before fluxing (top) and after (bottom) being fluxed five times with one-pound of a proprietary...
Gate-and-runner systems have traditionally dominated in metalcasting operations, but the more recent development of direct-pour technology has provided a compelling alternative to older methods — one that cannot be ignored...
