Moulding

When Quimmco Group, Monterrey, Mexico, purchased Blackhawk de Mexico, Santa Catarina, Mexico, in 2003, the gray and ductile iron casting facility underwent a remarkable turnaround. What once was a green sand facility struggling to turn a profit producing gray iron castings for the electric motor industry grew into one of […]

Blackhawk Bets Big on Nobake

28 Jul, 2014 in Features tagged Core Making / Moulding / North America by Global Casting Magazine

Progressive Foundry Inc., a grey and ductile iron metalcaster in Perry, Iowa, recently installed a Hunter Foundry Machinery Corp., Schaumburg, Ill., HLM Series molding machine. “It was the easiest to install of all the new machines we put in,” said Pete Van Kirk, president, Progressive Foundry. “The operation was as […]

Progressive Foundry Installs Linear Matchplate Molding Machine

24 Jul, 2014 in News tagged Moulding / North America by Global Casting Magazine

Developing a successful, repeatable, reliable process for pouring aluminum into a permanent mold is no simple task. The many variables include metal and mold temperatures, shrink factors, mold coatings, casting cycle times and melt quality. Considering the numerous factors that influence quality and quantity, introducing sand cores to permanent molds […]

Keys to Success in Semi-Permanent Mold Casting

14 Apr, 2014 in Features tagged Moulding / Pouring by Global Casting Magazine

Mold filling is the first step in forming a casting. Bad filling process may cause turbulence, mold wall erosion, cold shut, inclusions, misruns, etc. Physical measurement and numerical simulation are two common methods to designing feeding systems. Numerical simulation has been widely used in research and production. However, the simulated […]

Measurement and Observation of Steel Casting Filling

29 Jan, 2014 in Features tagged Moulding / Quality Control by Global Casting Magazine

Indumil, Industria Militar de Colombia, Department of Colombia National Defense, will expand its foundry to include nobake production of sand molds and a fully integrated sand reclamation system in Colombia, South America. The company will add high speed sand mixers, sand reclamation, compaction tables, pneumatic transporters, powder feeders, mold spray […]

Indumil to Expand in South America

10 Dec, 2013 in News tagged Foundry / Moulding / Sand Reclamation / South America by Global Casting Magazine

Member of the shareholding family will now succeed Richard Schmidhofer / focusing even more on international expansion and development . Andreas Moessner is now the new CFO of Laempe & Moessner GmbH. The 33-year-old industrial engineer joins the world market leader of core shop technology ,succeeding Richard Schmidhofer, who has […]

Andreas Moessner new Commercial Director at Laempe & Moessner

19 Nov, 2013 in News tagged Moulding by Global Casting Magazine

The shape of the first heat describes the pouring probably the most concise and it is the significant advantage over all manufacturing alternatives. The first heat is also based on the idea of the hot shake out process with targeted subsequent cooling. Is the augmentation of the requested dimensions and […]

Newly Composed Core Packages

28 Oct, 2013 in News tagged Moulding by Global Casting Magazine

Savelli large flask moulding line (3000x1800x500/500mm), 10 moulds/hour — In a strip of land in Northern Italy between the north-eastern border of the Po Valley and the Lombard foothills of the Alps there is Brescia, the capital of the eponymous Lombard province that economists consider to be one of Europe’s most productive. At number 4 of Cacciamali street, on […]

Article for Global Casting Magazine by Foundry Planet

28 Oct, 2013 in News tagged Moulding by Global Casting Magazine

A common nobake binder work time testing procedure may not be as accurate as you think. Greg Sturtz and Jean Szabo, ASK Chemicals, Dublin, Ohio, U.S. If you work in the nobake molding department of your metalcasting facility, it is likely you are using the B scale mold hardness gauge method […]

Determining Your Binder Work Time

25 Oct, 2013 in Features tagged Core Making / Moulding / Quality Control / Sand & Binders by Global Casting Magazine

Figure 22: Representation of mismatch measurement — Michael Colditz, Engineer, DISA Industries A/S, Herlev, Denmark Horizontally parted, flaskless moulding systems based on Matchplate technology have been around for many years. Outside Europe they are one of the most popular moulding processes. A general description of the technical basis of this process was first introduced in issue 08/2010 […]

Matchplate – new angles on a well-known process

25 Oct, 2013 in Technical Reports tagged Moulding by Global Casting Magazine