Foundry & Casting
Molten (liquid) metal is poured into a mold or form through a series of gates and risers to produce its intended shape. The different types of casting processes include: sand casting, investment casting, die casting, low pressure casting, centrifugal casting, gravity die casting, vacuum die, casting and squeeze die casting.
Foundry Casting & Technical Content
Refractory Insulation: The Quiet Defender of Furnace Longevity
When it comes to furnace linings, most heat treaters focus on the hot-face materials, the heavy-duty refractories taking the brunt of ...
Applied Machine Learning and Optimization in Steel Melting
What data can be gleaned for optimizing charge combinations? Check out this Technical Tuesday installment, by Tim Kaufmann and Dierk Hartmann, ...
Forging and Metalcasting Resources To Keep You Informed
We've assembled some of Heat Treat Today's resources on forging and metalcasting. Read or listen to what the experts have to say on ...
Heat Treat Radio #80: Lunch & Learn with Heat Treat Today – Mill Processes and Production, part 2
Heat Treat Radio host, Doug Glenn, and several other Heat Treat Today team members sit down with long-time industry expert Dan Herring, The ...
Have You Seen These 18 Heat Treat Technical Resources?
Welcome to another Technical Tuesday for 18 hard-hitting resources to use at your heat treat shop. These include quick tables, data sets, ...
Quartz, Alumina Combine for Innovative Aerospace Castings
A global materials engineering company which designs and manufactures a wide range of high specification products recently released an innovative new ...
Vacuum Assisted High Pressure Die Casting Technology Used in Manufacturing
Source: La Metallurgia Italiana - Primary aluminum-silicon-magnesium alloys are by far the most widely used type in the manufacturing of ...
Direct-Chill Casting
Source: Total Materia Direct-chill (DC) casting is currently the most common semi-continuous casting practice in non-ferrous metallurgy. The process is ...
Foundry & Casting News
Furnaces for Directionally Solidified and Single Crystal Castings
A leading aviation technology company will receive two new furnaces from a manufacturer of metal heat treatment solutions with North American ...
News from Abroad: Electric Expansions
In today's News from Abroad installment, we highlight an electrically heated aging furnace for aluminum production, an electric arc furnace as ...
Flagship Casting Machine Shipped for Next-Gen Manufacturers
A company in advanced metal casting technologies has shipped its first commercial additive manufacturing evaporative casting (AMEC) machine to the University ...
Industrial Ceramic Products Acquired by Allied Mineral Products
Industrial Ceramic Products, Inc. (ICP) has been acquired by Allied Mineral Products, LLC (Allied). The acquisition includes all ICP’s product lines, ...
Single Crystal Casting VIMs Developed for Aerospace
Three induction vacuum melting furnaces will be delivered to an industrial foundry specializing in parts production for the aerospace industry. Sławomir ...
Walking Beam Furnace On The Way for Steel Casting
A walking beam furnace has been ordered for the in-house operations of the largest steel subsidiary of the Salzgitter Group. The ...
Aviation Manufacturer Expands In-House Vacuum Heat Treat
An in-house heat treat manufacturer of highly specialized aviation parts will be increasing their vacuum heat treat abilities with a horizontal ...
Manufacturer Expands Aluminum Heat Treat Capabilities
A provider in the power solutions industry has enhanced its operations with a heat treat drop-bottom furnace for the solution heat ...
Case Study: Adapting a Continuous Rotary Hearth Furnace to an Existing ‘Brownfield’
Are you looking to expand in-house heat treat operations on a brownfield industrial site? These sites can bring complications due to ...
Steel Industry Acquisitions: Updates Following US Election
As U.S. election results were announced last week, several steel industry players are in the midst of acquisitions that could mean ...
Furniss & White Broadens Production at Heat Treat Facility With High-Performance Alloy Series
Furniss & White has partnered with a stainless steel technology company to produce its castings at its heat treatment facility using ...
$2.5B Acquisition Expands Steelmaker’s North American Reach
Cleveland-Cliffs Inc, a major supplier of steel to the automotive industry with heat treat capabilities, has announced its acquisition of Stelco ...
News From Abroad: Globally, Eyes Turn to the Future
Today’s News from Abroad installment investigates the influence AI is bearing on the global field of heat treating, as well as ...
U. S. Steel-Nippon Steel Merger Will Expand Pittsburgh Steelmaker’s Technical Base
David Burritt president and CEO U.S. Steel Source: U.S. Steel Access to technology and expertise in integrated mills are among the ...
News from Abroad: Casting Metal and Forging a Venture
Today’s News from Abroad installment brings us news of casting equipment supplied in China, heat treat supplier joint venture forged in ...
News from Abroad: Safer Technologies and Carbon Cutting
Today’s News from Abroad installment highlights more carbon-cutting trends from the steel industry, ranging from robots in the cast house to ...
Vacuum Induction Melting Solution from Upper NY
A custom-built vacuum induction melting (VIM) equipment is set to expand thermal processing for a manufacturer, whose operations already has two VIM ...
Manufacturer To Receive EB Furnace for Large-Ingot Casting
A North America-based company is set to receive a four-gun electron beam hearth melting furnace from their industry partner of 3 ...
