Melting

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

Molding & Auxiliary Equipment

1. Two 20" x 24" Sinto molding machines with Vulcan Tru-dex mold handling units
2. Beardsley Piper 100B Speedmullor
3. Two jolt squeezer molding machines. Flask sizes from 12" x 18" up to 18" x 18"
4. Two Roto-Lift molding machines. Flask sizes from 16" x 24" up to 24" x 24"
5. Two 50-ton storage bins for bond and raw sand additions
6. Auto feed sand conveyors to molding centers
7. Ability to adapt Hunter 10 and Hunter 20 plates to our molding machines
8. 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. 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.

Finishing and Machining

1. All machining is performed to customer specifications by approved commercial facilities.
2. Customer specified coatings are applied using Ransburg electrostatic painting equipment

Laboratory Testing
We use microscopic inspections, gas discharge spectroscopy chemical analysis, Brinell hardness, x-ray, sand testing, liquid dye penetrant, Ultrasonic, and other techniques to ensure customers receive quality products.

- Chemical Analysis

1. Multi-stationed Thermal Analysis equipment for precise control of base Iron chemistries
2. Spectrometer, LECO GDS 500A - 16 Elements - capable of analyzing all forms of ductile iron, gray iron, steel, and other raw materials

- Metallurgical

1. Fully equipped metallurgical laboratory

- 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. Brinell Hardness testing with high resolution automated hardness measurement.
2. Ultrasonic non-destructive testing equipment
3. Layout

 

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