A wide range of castings in carbon, stainless and duplex steels weighing from a few kilogrammes up to eight tonnes
are produced to standards from "commercial" right up to those demanding exacting radiographic examination.
Excellent machining facilities are available and castings can be supplied either proof machined or finish machined depending
on requirements.
Pattern Shop
Highly skilled pattern-makers are fully experienced in pattern construction in either
wood, metal or resin.
Methods
Customer liaison and a technical advisory service at the design or enquiry stages are important
factors in ensuring that the purchaser's specific needs are met. The methods department uses the latest solidification simulation
software including "Solstar" and "Magmasoft" Attention to detail and careful monitoring of initial sampling stages ensure
the production of quality castings.
Laboratory
Routine spectrographic, nitrogen, oxygen and hydrogen analyses are carried out to ensure
exact material specifications are available prior to casting. Mechanical testing is also carried out on site.
Coremaking
Sand -Complex cores using resin bonded and zircon corovit sands are produced by
a highly skilled team.
Ceramic - Where a fine surface finish, narrow apertures or tight dimensional tolerances are required,
ceramic cores can be offered. These are particularly suitable for hydraulic passageways.
Floor Moulding - Traditional moulding methods and individual skills ensure that customers' specific needs
are catered for.
Flow Line Moulding -
Accuracy and repeatability on the automatic moulding line ensures dimensional
consistency. An important feature of the system is that it can cope with single castings, batch quantities or production runs.
Heat Treatment
Modern facilities offer a full range of heat treatment including:
- Stress Relieving
- Normalising
- Quenching
- Annealing
- Melting Capabilities
- Furnace Data
A battery of six induction melting furnaces provides a maximum melting capacity of approximately 14 tonnes as liquid metal,
which gives a finished casting capacity up to eight tonnes.
Dressing, Shotblasting, Pickling
A wealth of experience and expertise in the finishing section of the
foundry completes the comprehensive facilities available to our customers.
NDE
Comprehensive non-destructive testing examination facilities include:
- Dye penetrant.
- Magnetic particle.
- Ultrasonic.
- Radiography.