High-grade steel foundry
Equipment and manufacturing processes
- Induction furnaces, 600 - 6000 kg
- Vacuum furnaces, 600 + 3000 kg
- Automatic core shooter and hand core shop
- Hand moulding shop
- Cold-setting resin moulding machines
Moulding processes
- Cold-setting resin sand mould casting
- Binder system: Alpha-Set
- Moulding base material (silica sand or special sands zircon, chrome ore)
Product classification
- Castings of small and medium series production
- Single castings with diameters up to 6000 mm
- Raw casting weights from a few kg to 10,000 kg
Range of materials
- Highly-alloyed cast materials based on iron, nickel and cobalt
- Duplex - Superduplex
- NiCu alloys
- Pure nickel
- Materials overview
Material properties
- Corrosion and heat-resistant
- Non-magnetizable
- Wear-resistant
Planning and consulting services
- Product development and optimization
- Cost calculation, production planning and control
- Casting design
- Pour simulation 3D-CAD
- Pattern design of wood, plastics and metal
- Value analyses, prototype development
Certifications and approvals
- ISO 9001
- ISO 45001
- ISO 14001
- Pressure Equipment Directive 2014/68/EU with AD 2000 codes W0 and HP0
- Det Norske Veritas (DNV)
- Wehrwissenschaftliches Institut für Werk- und Betriebsstoffe (WIWeB)
- Additional qualifications and approvals by companies and classification societies
Machining
Technology and equipment
- Conventional and CNC centre lathes with a centre height of 600 mm and a centre distance of 3500 mm
- Conventional and CNC vertical boring and turning mill handling up to 6 metres diameter
- Advanced CAD-CAM assisted programs
- 5-axis gantry machining centres in conditioned atmospheres with a mounting area of 2 by 3 m and a 10 t plate load
- Further CNC milling machines and boring mills
Machining capabilities
- Premachining and finishing
- Component manufacture
- Contract machining
- List of machining units (Download available below)
Quality assurance
- Chemical lab
- Corrosion lab
- Micrographic examination
- Test lab
- Destructive and non-destructive testing
- X-ray fluorescence analysis
- Emission spectrometry
