CIC specializes in many types of die castings like castings engineering.
Benefits of castings engineering:
- The castings engineering shapes that can be produced in a variety of shapes as long as they do not involve undercuts in cored areas or reverse draft.
- With the correct castings engineering design and process many parts can be combined into a single part – helping reduce costs by reducing or eliminating machining, by providing assembly, as well as by reducing the number of components in inventory and other associated costs.
- Design flexibility, castings allow you to choose from select number of alloys like castings engineering as well as have flexibility for internal and external configurations to suit your particular needs.
Net shape production is sometimes achievable so that the parts are usable as cast. However, to achieve many close tolerances, threads, or surface finishes machining is required. CIC can help minimize the need for expensive secondary operations by choosing an optimal casting process. - Elimination of material waste. castings engineering are typically cast very close to the specified tolerances.
- The castings engineering is usually the most cost-effective method to produce complex parts in medium and high-volume quantities.
We provide all types of castings, which is a process where molten metal is injected at high pressure or poured into a mold containing a hollow cavity the shape of the part to form an object to a desired shape. The solidified part is known as a casting which is ejected from the mold to complete the process. Casting is most often used for making complex shapes that would otherwise be difficult or cost prohibitive to produce by other methods.
The cast metal part is removed from the mold either by injection. Most common castings alloys can be cast using expendable molds. Reusable molds as in die casting depend on the alloy melting points. If the melting point of the alloy is higher than the mold melting point, then reusable molds are not an option.
To complete the process the castings are cooled, gating is removed and then they are typically ground and cleaned, and machined if necessary to produce a semi-finished or finished part.
CIC supplies many special casting alloys as well as many more common alloys as listed below, including aluminum, magnesium, and Zinc
- Aluminum: A360, A380, A390, A413
- Zinc: Zamak 3, 5, 7, ZA8, ZA12
- Magnesium AZ91D
The castings engineering casting process may vary based on production volume and casting tolerance capability of the process. CIC helps their customers “engineer savings” by providing cost effective castings engineering design solutions, sourcing and warehousing.
CIC provides cost efficient die castings as well as semisolid castings, shell castings, permanent mold castings, sand castings, investment castings, centrifugal castings and prototype castings.
Each casting type and alloy has pros and cons regarding cost, volume production, metallurgical quality, dimensions held, reliability and competitiveness.
Casting characteristics to consider include cost, strength, hardness, density weight limitations, bearing qualities, if needed including galling resistance, machinability, weldability, brazabilty, abrasion resistance, corrosion resistance, oxidation resistance, fatigue properties, resistance to cracking, electrical conductivity, magnetic properties, thermal conductivity and other engineering or technical attributes.
Working with CIC ensures that all of your castings engineering requirements are considered for your application.
CIC’s castings engineering consulting, quality component manufacturing, supply chain management and warehousing options exceed industry standards and provide the best overall value and savings.
CIC provides castings engineering and other types of castings for a wide range of industrial OEMs including transport (railway, shipping, aircraft and aerospace), heavy equipment (construction, mining, farming), plant machinery (paper, petroleum, food), hardware, defense (munitions, vehicles, supporting equipment), and household (appliances, gardening equipment, furniture, fittings), machine tools, electrical machines (motors, generators, pumps, compressors), municipal (pipes, joints, valves, fittings), industries.
CIC provides castings engineering in Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Oklahoma as well as many other major manufacturing areas in North America.
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