CASTING FACILITY
CASTING FACILITY
The casting facility is the department within a valve manufacturing plant responsible for transforming molten metal into various valve components. It plays a crucial role in ensuring the quality, consistency, and cost-effectiveness of the final product.
Here’s a breakdown of the key functions of a casting facility:
Melting
High-temperature furnaces, like induction furnaces, are used to melt the raw metal based on the specific valve design requirements.
Molding
Molds are prepared using various techniques like sand casting or investment casting. These molds create the desired shapes for the molten metal to solidify into.
Pouring
The molten metal is carefully poured into the prepared molds.
Solidification
Once poured, the metal is allowed to cool and solidify within the mold, taking on the desired shape of the valve component.
Cleaning and Finishing
Once solidified, the castings are removed from the molds and cleaned of any residual materials or imperfections. This might involve processes like shot blasting or grinding.
- In-house pattern shops, modern machine shop and testing
- In-house facility backed by generator
- Wind Power for non-stop production
- Installed capacity 3,600 tons per year
- Maximum single piece weight 2,100 kg
- Pattern Shop
- Pattern shop features highly trained pattern makers from the simple to the extremely complex casting design.
- Our patterns ensure accurate casting that meets customer specifications.
- CNC machined patterns provide close & consistent casting tolerances.
- The pattern shop is strengthened with dedicated CNC machine for full time pattern making from solid models and simulation software SOFT CAST 3.5 for methoding.
