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Metal casting are manufacturing processes in which a liquid molten metal and their alloys are usually poured into a mold, which contains a hollow cavity of the desired shape, and then allowed to solidify. The solidified part is also known as a casting or casting part, which is ejected or broken out of the mold to complete the process. Casting materials are usually metals or various cold setting materials that cure after mixing two or more chemical components together. Casting is most often used for producing metal alloyed products of complex shapes those would be difficult or uneconomical to make by forging and other manufacturing processes.
Casting processes have been known for thousands of years. At modern mechanical industrial areas, thanks to the advance technology and equipment, the casting has been developed more advantages. The casting manufacturing process is still a fundamental industry and play an important role in automotive, transportation, arospaces, construction machinery, farm machinery, hydraulic, pumps and valves...almost every mechanical fields nowadays.
According to the methods how to make the mold and patterns, the casting process could divided into many categories. The most widely used casting processes are sand casting and special casting process. Some foundries also put the lost foam casting, vacuum casting as sub-categories of sand casting, because these two casting processes use the dry sand to make the mold before cast pouring. The special casting processes mainly cover investment casting, permanent mold casting, high pressure die casting, low pressure casting and gravity casting.
The castings could be also divided into different categories by the metals and alloys the foundries use as materials. At our foundry, we can produce gray iron castings, ductile iron castings, malleable cast iron castings, carbon steel castings, alloy steel castings, stainless steel castings, aluminium alloy castings, brass and bronze castings. These metal and alloys could be cast by one or more casting processes, depending their casting performance and the required mechanical properties, dimensional tolerances and other special performances.
Casting and Machining Parts by Different Metals and Alloys
