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
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
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 ...
US Army Enlists Metallus for Munitions Expansion
Metallus, formerly known as TimkenSteel and a leader in high-quality specialty metals, manufactured components, and supply chain solutions, announced that the ...
Box Furnace Increases Tempering Capabilities for Castings Company
Tom Schulz Sales Manager L&L Special Furnace Source: L&L An investment castings manufacturer's heat treat department received a large floor-standing box ...
Skuld Expanding by Opening New Foundry & Manufacturing Facility
Skuld LLC announced that they had purchased the site belonging to the former Champion Foundry in Piqua, Ohio, a gray and ...
Second HIP Contracted For Wallwork
Bringing forward plans by two years, Wallwork Group have signed for a second hot isostatic press. Following hot on the heels ...
ECOACERO Expands Rebar Potential with New Mill
ECOACERO, an ESTRELLA Group company, has placed an order for a new rebar mill with a heat treater with North American ...
North American Heat Treater Welcomes New Ownership
Effective November 30, 2023, Joe A. Powell has sold his remaining shares in Akron Steel Treating Company, his family's commercial heat ...
Foundry Expands 3D Printing Capabilities
A Louisiana-based foundry — a supplier of iron, stainless, and specialty alloy castings for paper/pulp, energy, mining, and petrochemical customers — ...
Fringe Friday: Desirability of the Deoxidation of Ductile Base Iron
What is deoxidation and how can it be useful for energy savings? In fact, can the process really save money and improve the ...
Fringe Friday: Nippon Steel Corporation To Acquire U. S. Steel
Sometimes our editors find items that are not exactly "heat treat" but do deal with interesting developments in one of our ...
Jet Engine Manufacturer Modernizes with Updated Casting Furnace
Sławomir Tomaszewski Vacuum Melting Team Director SECO/WARWICK Source: LinkedIn One of the world's largest producers of jet engines has modernized their ...
News from Abroad: Furnace Updates and Lowered Emissions
Heat Treat Today is partnering with two international publications: heat processing, a Vulkan-Verlag GmbH publication that serves mostly the European and ...
Double Reduction Mill Offers Sustainable Solutions for Tinplate Company
A tinplate company will receive a new order for a tinplate coating line (TCL) and tinplate double reduction mill (TDRM) from ...
Charlotte Pipe and Foundry Opens New Site in North Carolina
A 122-year-old cast-iron pipe maker started operating its $460-million ferrous foundry in North Carolina, and celebrated its role in "revitalizing manufacturing ...
GKN Aerospace Expands with 2 New AM Systems
GKN Aerospace has expanded its capabilities with additive manufacturing (AM) machines, accelerating its industrialization of sustainable aero engine solutions. This new ...
Al Reverb Furnace Fabrication Begins at Al Extrusion Plant
A multinational aluminum producer ordered a new 100,000 lb. capacity tilt melting aluminum furnace for one of their regional aluminum extrusion ...
