Posts by Drew Clawson
The Foundry Advantage of No-Bake Systems
If your foundry is exploring chemically bonded molding options, the decision often comes down to three things: casting quality, foundry environment, and total cost of ownership. As a proud distributor for HA International, Carpenter Brothers Inc. works with foundries every day to help them choose the right no-bake binder systems for their metal, their production…
Read MoreThe Case for Ceramic Sand: SphereOx and FineOx
If your foundry is still fighting veining, burn-on, pinholes, or dimensional drift on a regular basis, the problem may not be your process. It may be your sand. Chesapeake Specialties has developed two products specifically to address these issues at the source: SphereOx Ceramic Sand and FineOx Ceramic Sand. Both are engineered for metalcasting molds…
Read MoreHow Smarter Abrasive Choices Are Transforming Foundry Cleaning Rooms
Every iron casting that leaves a foundry has first been through a gauntlet of grinding, cutting, and finishing work that most buyers never see. Gates and risers, the solid metal channels and reservoirs that feed molten metal into the mold, must be severed cleanly from the part. Flash and parting-line seams left by the mold…
Read MoreAdvancing Foundry Melt Shops with Induction Technology
Foundries today face growing pressure to increase productivity, reduce energy consumption, enhance metallurgical control, and operate with greater environmental responsibility. Otto Junker’s portfolio of medium-frequency coreless induction furnaces and channel-type induction furnaces provides a technologically advanced solution designed to meet these requirements. These systems offer a combination of high-power density, excellent process control, operational flexibility,…
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