Engineering

Our engineering staff coordinates customer plans and designs to develop castable parts. We review blueprints and work diligently to save costs and improve efficiency in the casting process.

Core Making

Core making is a craft that combines the latest technology with more traditional practical processes. Our core making capability is essential to achieving on-time delivery, and we supply our customers' needs for cores utilizing coldbox, shell or baked oil processes.

Pouring and Cooling

Gartland's excellent casting machinability is assured through slow cooling of the carefully poured mold, which gives the finished casting the required mechanical properties and provides the optimum in consistently machinable parts.

Molding

Our automated molding machines provide high quality castings with unparalleled consistency in the finished product. Our highly talented molding operators skillfully produce thousands of molds to be delivered daily to the iron pouring lines.

Finishing, Storage and Shipping

Gartland's Finishing Department is equipped with Wheelabrator, Tumblast and Spinner Hanger units for cleaning the variety of shapes cast. Ransburg electro-static painting equipment enables the application of primers needed to meet customer specifications and to enhance the appearance of the finished product. The protection of the high quality castings is assured by the clean indoor, weather-protected shipping and storage facilities. Weather is not a factor when it comes to shipping from Gartland, and every precaution is taken to keep the customer's product clean, dry and well-protected in shipping containers.

We regularly ship to locations in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Ontario and Quebec.

Customer Services

• Product Design Review
• Samples
• Specialty Packaging
• Express Shipping
• Bar coding of container labels
• EDI (CAD Drawings, P.O.s, Invoices, Payments)
  
  
  

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1. Two 8,000-lb., coreless induction melting furnaces, rated at 5 tons per hour

Molding & Auxiliary Equipment

1. Beardsley Piper 100B Speedmullor
2. Two 50-ton storage bins for bond and raw sand additions
3. Auto feed sand conveyors to molding centers
4. One 16" x 20" x 6/6 Beardsley Piper Matchblomatic Automatic Molding machine with Series VII Continumatic mold handling unit
5. One 20" x 24" FBO III Sinto molding machine with Vulcan Tru-dex mold handling unit
6. Two jolt squeezer molding machines. Flask sizes from 12" x 18" up to 18" x 18"
7. Two Roto-Lift molding machines. Flask sizes from 16" x 24" up to 24" x 24"
8. Ability to adapt Hunter 10 and Hunter 20 plates to our molding machines
9. Casting Weights: Gray Iron: 0.5# to 75#, Ductile Iron: 0.5# to 60#

Core Room

1. Two Gaylord 19VSTB coldbox machines-core box sizes to 19"x16"
2. OMCO - MS-1 Super Bowl Mixer with capacity up to 3 tons sand per hour
3. One Redford CB22 cold box machine-corebox size up to 22" x 22"
4. Two Redford shell machines-corebox size up to 14" x 14" or 16" x 16"
5. One double-end Harrison shell machine-corebox size up to 18" x 18"
6. Miscellaneous oil sand core blowers and ovens

Cleaning Room

1. Didion MD 80 Rotary Shakeout Drum
2. One 14-cu.ft. Wheelabrator tumblast
3. Four variable-speed snag grinders
4. One Ransburg electro-static point spray booth
5. One Wheelabrator spinner hanger cabinet blast
6. One 6-cu.ft. Casting Tumbler
   

Heat Treating

1. All heat treatment is performed by approved commercial facilities.
   

Machining

1. All machining is performed to customer specifications by approved commercial facilities.

   
   

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Laboratory Testing
We use microscopic inspections, gas discharge spectroscopy chemical analysis, Brinnel, x-ray, sand testing and other techniques to ensure customers receive quality products

- Chemical Analysis

1. Capabilities: ductile iron, gray iron, steel, raw materials
2. Multi-stationed L&N Meltlab II
3. Spectrometer, LECO GDS 500A - 16 Elements

- Metallurgical

1. Two fully equipped metallurgical laboratories

- Sand Laboratories

1. Hartley Controls Automatic Moisture/Bond Determinator Control System
2. Complete green sand property testing equipment

- Engineering & Technology

1. CAD drawings may be provided by customer using AutoCAD, Solidworks, eDrawings, JEDMICS and transmitted via the internet for prompt analysis
2. Bar coding capabilities provided as a customer service and for internal inventory and shipping control

- Inspection & Testing Equipment

1. Non-destructive testing
2. Layout

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