While there are several specific casting techniques in use to produce cast iron parts, all follow this basic procedure of heating, molding, cooling and ejecting. Read More…
ZETWERK provides high quality grey iron casting components produced using range of materials including aluminum, zinc, copper, brass and bronze alloys. We also perform necessary secondary operations on the grey iron casting parts such as finish machining, surface treatment etc. ZETWERK is ISO 9001:2015 and AS9100D certified. Our grey iron casting plants are IATF 16949:2016 certified.
Modern Aluminum Castings Co., Inc. has been a designer and manufacturer of aluminum and iron castings since 1919. Industries served include the sporting goods, medical devices, industrial machinery, HVAC, automotive, electrical lighting, appliance, and construction industries. Other services include forgings, stampings, custom machined components, and others.
For more than 100 years, Pittsburgh Foundry and Machine Company has been the leading manufacturer of ferrous and nonferrous castings. Our values have stayed the same for the last 100 years, providing high-quality products with high-quality customer service. We want to meet our customer's needs and build long-lasting relationships.
Since 1943, Fountain Foundry Corporation has specialized in highly cored and intricate castings. Our in-house pattern shop can transform your design into a high quality ductile or grey iron casting. We have a 77,000 square foot facility and can handle the most complex cores. To do the job right, we also offer finishing operations such as heat treating, grinding, polishing, machining and coating.
Impro Industries is globally recognized as a leading provider of high-precision, high-complexity, and mission-critical casting and machined components. Industries served include automotive, aerospace, medical, and many mor. Our team is dedicated to the quality of our every project, ensuring the highest customer satisfaction. Contact us today to learn more about our grey iron casting capabilities.
Waupaca is a TS-16949, ISO 14001, and OHSAS 18001 certified producer of gray, ductile and compacted graphite iron castings melting over 9,500 tons per day. These castings are produced using vertical, high pressure, greensand molding at all of our facilities utilizing several different mold sizes to optimize the production of castings ranging from 2 pounds (1Kg) to 350 pounds (160 Kg).
Northern Iron & Machine for finished castings ready for installation. Ductile grey iron and Austempered ductile castings, small to large quantities. Prototypes up to 500 lbs. and castings up to 250 lbs. Machining, painting, assembly. ISO 9001:2000 certified. In-house metallurgical lab. Industries: OEM, Oil-Field, Off-Highway, Agriculture, Fire Fighting, Locomotive, Wind.
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Cast Iron - MES Inc.There are two predominant types of cast iron, those being grey iron and white iron. The former has a graphitic structure, the deflection of which provides the namesake color on fracture surfaces. White iron, however, has small white deposits of cementite rather than being completely pallid. The main differences between the two are silicone content and cooling times, both of which have a significant impact on the physical and mechanical behavior of the alloy.
White iron has a low carbon content and is cooled at a fast rate to produce a brittle cast part with good hardness and abrasion resistance. These are used in a number of wear applications such as slurry pumps, liners, grinding mills and pulverizers. Grey iron castings on the other hand are produced through the slow cooling of high carbon iron alloys and are less brittle allowing their use as crankshafts, support beams, engine blocks and more.
In addition to these two types, iron foundries and metallurgical engineers continue to develop more malleable and ductile irons that exhibit the beneficial characteristics of cast iron, but with significant reductions to brittleness due to a spheroid rather than flaked internal structure. These specialized alloys are becoming increasingly common in the industrial world.
Although pure iron is found only in meteorites, the element is one of the most abundant on Earth making up 5% of the crust and 35% of the total mass. Mining operations extract the element from iron ore and oxides such as magnetite, hematite, limonite, goethite and siderite which contain high levels of iron. These oxides are smelted to produce what is known as pig iron, the base material for cast iron.
The stock forms are heated in a special blast furnace known as a cupola. Scrap iron and steel are added to the molten mixture to produce cast iron. Once in a molten state this metal is poured into a cast where it is cooled at controlled rates before a finished or near finished part is ejected or extracted. Some of the more popular methods used today for iron castings are die casting, centrifugal casting and sand casting.
Die casting is used to manufacture complex parts at high production rates, centrifugal casting creates cylindrical parts and sand casting uses expendable synthetic or natural sand molds to create rough parts. These processes result in easily machined cast iron components with high compression strength, low melting points, good thermal conductivity and energy dissipation, wear resistance and fluidity.
