Kurtz Gravity Casting Machines The Core Pull Makes The Difference On the whole, gravity casting is the classical casting process. Practiced for hudreds of years, it still offers potential for improvement. Kurtz has developed a machine concept especially for jobbing foundries. Due to the modular machine design this concept can be universally employed. What is needed is fl exibility with respect to the most…

The new 8- speed automatic transmission from ZF makes vehicles more economical. Honsel assisted ZF by developing the optimal casting process for the gearbox housing. The light metal expert supplies light compact housings as well as high-precision control parts for the gear shifting mechanism. Honsel manufactures the components on a new fully automated production line. With its new 8-speed transmission known…

Elkem’s recently introduced cover alloy, Topseed®, is changing the way that our customers think about their magnesium ferrosilicon treatment process. Designed to, Improve magnesium recovery Conditions the reaction slag Increase residual nucleation levels Improve process stability, Topseed® has already proved to be a great benefit in many foundries across North America, Europe and Asia. Topseed, is a…

A project of delivering 13 individual components to support a new Jaguar vehicle launch was successful project managed and delivered by the team. This involved supplying machined and painted components 6 weeks after receiving the finalised customer models, many of the chassis components were also cast with wall sections as thin as 3mm to replicate future pressure die casting requirements. The team also…

Check out the latest videos, interviews, and impressions of the show! The metal casting industry in the U.S. is on an upward rise and evidence of this excitement was displayed at the the Cast Expo 2013. The exceptionally organized event was hosted by the AFS and held at the America's Center in St. Louis, Missouri from April 6th – 9th. A recorded 7,192 metal casters attended the show, according to the AFS,…

PALMER - Robert M. Logan, president of Palmer Foundry walked though the company's shipping warehouse pointing at crates full of finished cast aluminum parts and rattling off their destinations: the West Coast, Europe, Canada, China and other parts of Asia. "We have shipments going out to Singapore every week," Logan said. He showed off an aluminum casting that will be used as a reaction chamber in the…

In order to carry out FinnvedenBultenAB’s (“FinnvedenBulten”) long-term strategy and improve profitability for die cast components, the Finnveden Metal Structures division intends to streamline its foundry operation by concentrating its European magnesium die casting to the factory in Poland. The factory in Sweden will be streamlined for aluminum die casting and the company’s intention is to find new owners…

At the beginning of May 2012 the board of directors of the Eifelwerk Präzisionsgusstechnik GmbH in Eichelhard Germany made legal steps towards the insolvency of EIFFELWERK GROUP. Lawyer, Jörg A. Wunderlich was appointed as the the preliminary insolvency administrator. The Eifelwerk Präzisionsgusstechnik is a small and specialized light metal foundry which manufactures sand permanent molds, particularly…

New System 3000 installation at Halberg Leipzig foundry Upgrade of existing SinterCast System 2000 to full System 3000 standard High volume series production for commercial vehicle cylinder blocks and heads Halberg Guss, one of the world’s leading automotive foundry groups, has ordered an upgrade of its existing CGI process control system and an additional new System 3000 from the Swedish process control…

Halberg Guss, one of the world's leading automotive foundry groups, has ordered an upgrade of its existing compacted graphite iron (CGI) process control system and an additional new System 3000 from the Swedish process control specialist SinterCast. The commissioning is scheduled for summer 2013. This coincides with the installation of increased liquid metal holding capacity at the Leipzig foundry. The two…