Capabilities
Gartland Foundry produces a wide variety of Gray and Ductile Iron products for our customers.
Casting and Metal Capabilities
Casting Weights
Gray Iron: 0.5# to 75#
Ductile Iron: 0.5# to 60#
Maximum Flask Dimensions (Imposes Limitation on Casting Dimensions)
Sinto Automated Molding: 20” x 24” x 8”over 8”
Gray Iron Grades
Class 20, 25, 30, 35, 40
Ductile Iron Grades
65-45-12, 60-40-15, 60-40-18, 60-45-15, 80-55-06, 80-60-03, 100-70-03
Melting
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Two 4 metric ton coreless induction furnaces, rated at 7 tons per hour
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Baldor Electric Generator for electrical power backup to furnace water pumps coolers, hydraulics
Molding and Auxiliary Equipment
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Two 20" x 24" Sinto molding machines with mold handling units for 1 hour cooling requirements
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Beardsley Piper 100B Speedmullor
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Two 50-ton storage bins for bond and raw sand additions
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Auto feed sand conveyors to molding centers
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Ability to adapt Hunter 10 and Hunter 20 plates to our molding machines
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Casting Weights: Gray Iron: 0.5# to 75#, Ductile Iron: 0.5# to 60#
Core Room
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Two Gaylord 19VSTB coldbox machines-core box sizes to 19"x16"
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OMCO - MS-1 Super Bowl Mixer with capacity up to 3 tons sand per hour
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One Redford CB22 cold box machine-corebox size up to 22" x 22"
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Two Redford shell machines-corebox size up to 14" x 14" or 16" x 16"
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One double-end Harrison shell machine-corebox size up to 18" x 18"
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Oil sand core blowers and ovens
Cleaning Room
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Two Roberts Sinto Barinder 400 Series Automatic Grinding Systems
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Didion Rotary Shakeout Drum MD-100/80 MK5 Series V
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MD-28 cu.ft. Tumblast Shot Blast Machine
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Four variable-speed snag grinders
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One Ransburg electro-static point spray booth
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One Wheelabrator spinner hanger cabinet blast
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One 6-cu.ft. Casting Tumbler
Heat Treating
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All heat treatment is performed by approved commercial facilities
Finishing and Machining
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All machining is performed to customer specifications by approved commercial facilities
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Customer specified coatings are applied using Ransburg electrostatic painting equipment
Laboratory Testing
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We use microscopic inspections, gas discharge spectroscopy chemical analysis, Brinell hardness, Tensile testing, x-ray, sand testing, liquid dye penetrant, ultrasonic and other techniques to ensure customers receive quality products.
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Chemical Analysis
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Multi-stationed Thermal Analysis equipment for precise control of base Iron chemistries
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Spectrometer capable of analyzing all forms of ductile iron, gray iron, steel, and other raw materials
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Metallurgical
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Fully equipped metallurgical laboratory
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Sand Laboratories
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Sand System with Automatic Moisture/Bond Determinator Control System
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Complete green sand property testing equipment
Engineering and Technology
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CAD drawings may be provided by customer using Solidworks, eDrawings, JEDMICS and transmitted via the internet for prompt analysis
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Bar coding capabilities provided as a customer service and for internal inventory and shipping control
Inspection and Testing Equipment
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Brinell Hardness testing with high resolution automated hardness measurement
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Tensile testing of gray and ductile iron samples
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Ultrasonic non-destructive testing equipment
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Layout