Production Department

Pattern Making Shop

 

Our pattern making shop combines the latest forms of manufacturing technology with classical manual craft skills. This combination gives us the ability to manufacture quickly top-quality flexible pattern equipment, from wood, plastic, metal, and polystyrene.

 

Our services, your benefits:

 

• Manufacture of pattern equipment using both modern CAD technology and drawings and sketches.
• Advice and assistance in the design and economical production of single or mass production.
• Repairs for immediate re-use in production
• Adjustment and re-working of existing pattern equipment to meet the optimum production process requirements.

 

Pattern making Management

Our four pattern stores with around 10,000 patterns, ensure maximum flexibility, both for us and our customers.
Thus, when required, patterns can be provided and used at short notice.

 

 

Core Moulding Shop

 

Our modern core moulding shop produces parts using verious technologies. Cold box, Furan resin and Croning moulds can be manufactured allowing us to create a perfect match to the relevant production conditions.

 

General technical data:

Coldbox:

• Maximum core volume: 2 x 40 litres (200 kg)

 

Furan resin:

• Maximum core volume: approx 3500 litres (9000 kg)

 

Croning:

• Maximum core volume: 6,5 litres for solid core moulds (16 kg)
• Maximum core volume: 10 litres for hollow core moulds (25 kg)

Metal Shop

 

In our medium -frequency induction crucible furnaces, we ensure the maintenance of safe casting temperatures. This is achieved by using high quality raw materials and by applying constant quality control which is documented according to the requirements of data analysis.

 

General technical data:

 

2 t furnace installation:

• 2 medium-frequency induction furnaces
• Power 1250 kW

 

3 t furnace installation:

• 2 medium-frequency induction furnaces
• Power 2000 kW

 

4 t furnace installation:

• 2 medium-frequency induction furnaces
• Power 2500 kW

 

Total smelting capacity:

• 9 t / hour
• 140 t / day

Manual Moulding Shop

 

Our manual moulding shop is particularly distingushed by ist many years of experience in the production of castings to various quality standards for such sectors as the wind power industry, gear manufactures, machine tool manufactures and general mechanical engineering industry.

 

General technical data:

Max. box size:

• 1100 x 8000 [mm]
• 4000 x 4000 [mm]

 

Weights:

• up to 10.000 kg

Moulding material:

• Silica sand coated with furan resin

 

Cast materials:

• Grey cast iron
• Spheroidal cast iron
• Ausferritic cast iron (ADI, C-ADI)
• Austenitic cast iron (Ni-Resist)

 

Concentric equipment
Castings with an average weight of 180 kg are produced in small and medium sized batches with our concentric moulding equipment.

 

General technical data:

Capacity:

• 60 moulds / day

 

Max. box size:

• 1000 x 1700 [mm]

 

Number of pattern plates:

• 13 plates

 

Moulding material:

• Silica sand coated with furan resin

 

Cast materials:

• Grey cast iron
• Spheroidal cast iron
• Ausferritic cast iron (ADI, C-ADI)
• Austenitic cast iron (Ni-Resist)

 

Machine Moulding Shop

 

Castings with an average weight of about 40 kg are produced with our automatic moulding equipment, mostly in small and medium sized batches. Our main customers for this type of castings, come from the fixtures and pumps market sectors. Our remaining customers come from the agricultural, construction, general and mechanical industries.

 

General technical data:

Capacity:

• 60 moulds / hour

 

Box size:

• 650 x 650 x (2 x 230) [mm]

 

Moulding material:

• Bentonite coated silica sand

 

Cast material:

• Grey cast iron
• Spheroidal cast iron
• Ausferritic cast iron (ADI, C-ADI)
• Austenitic cast iron (Ni-Resist)