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March 22, 2009

Better die casting molds

Filed under: Die Casting Tooling — Tags: , — admin @ 4:24 pm

Better die casting tooling from new materials could benefit auto manufacturers. The dies or the die casting molds are expensive parts since these are made from hardened steel. Another reason that contributes to the parts high-price range is the kind of production that is involved in making these die casting tooling molds. The cycle time that is used in building these products is long too. And finally, an important reason why these items are expensive is that the stronger and the harder metals like iron and steel cannot be die-cast. For this reason, these products are highly expensive in the market and this is true for one sector like the automotive industry.

For example, in the auto industry, the traditional die-casting molds that are made from hardened steel and those that are used in making the engine blocks and other auto parts and accessories can reach $500,000 or more. The equipment is pricey and it takes time to build. And this is one issue in the industry that has made some lives of the manufacturers a bit harder. But there is a new breed of materials that is now available in the market that can be used to address this issue. These new batch of materials are materials that can withstand the heat and at the same time not compromising its durability.

According to one researcher, these materials are called the functionally gradient materials. These materials have the capability to shift from one material to the next. And if the future die casting tooling molds are to be created using these materials then the usual cracking expected on the die casting molds can be removed. Plus products like auto parts and accessories made from the molds will have a longer lifespan.

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February 21, 2009

The secret of the most useful metal in the world

Filed under: Die Casting Company,Die Casting Tooling,Zinc Casting Parts — Tags: , , — admin @ 11:31 pm

The secret of the most useful metal in the world. It is the 1st metal in terms of abundance, making up about 7-8% of the earth’s crust. Ironically, it has been hard to mine and use this metal for industrial and commercial purposes until the 1880’s and the discovery of cost efficient methods. The Romans and Greeks used it in salt form for medicinal purposes. Bars or ingots of the metal were kept alongside silver and gold and other jewels.

Nowadays, not a gadget, an engine, or an equipment is produced without the help of this metal. Its commercial manufacture is second only to iron. I am talking about the versatile aluminum. Lightweight, malleable and ductile, with high strength, and non corrosive properties; this metal is the darling of the industrial world. Aluminum cast parts are used in automobiles, marine engines, bikes, construction equipment, and kitchen utensils. It is also found in electrical high wires, heat coils, and watches.

The process of aluminum part castings is also the process of other kinds of metal alloys such as zinc, magnesium, and iron. They are sand and die casting, permanent mold and evaporation pattern casting, composite mold and hybrid permanent mold casting, investment and plaster casting. All these methods in the aluminum casting process make this metal available and useful to all.

No matter what kind it is and what it is called, there is a basic process in metal casting. It involves molten aluminum metal which is poured into a mold and left for a while to solidify. The difference lies in the kind of mold used. Die Casting Tooling.

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February 13, 2009

The irony of aluminum

Filed under: Aluminum Cast Parts Alloys,Die Casting Company,Die Casting Tooling — Tags: , — admin @ 1:19 am

The irony of aluminum

Aluminum cans, foil, silver paint. All these would not exist if aluminum were not present in the earth’s crust. Alternatively, they would be very expensive if Charles Martin Hall and Paul Héroult did not discover electrolysis, which is the method of extracting the metal from its ore nowadays. Fortunately, they did discover it. The Hall-Héroult process for the production of aluminum is the foremost process used in the metalworking industry today.

For the further commercial use of this abundant metal, metalworkers use the aluminum casting process to mass produce aluminum alloys. Die molding, hot isostatic pressing,
sand casting, composite mold casting, continuous mold casting, permanent mold casting, centrifugal casting, investment casting, and plaster casting; this is a list of the many ways of aluminum part castings. These metal parts have a number of uses in the aeronautic, automobile, electronic, and electrical industries. Die Cast Tooling.

Due to this silvery lightweight metal’s incredible versatility, aluminum cast parts are also found in such gadgets as transistors, computers, mobile phones, lawnmowers, cars, escalators, aircraft, conveyor belts, streetlamps, and some dental equipment. In addition, aluminum compounds are used in the production of glass, ceramics, antiperspirants, synthetic rubber, paint, paper, cosmetics, varnishes, and leather tanning.

If science and technology did not go forward as it did, aluminum would still be more expensive than gold today. The irony of aluminum is that of all the metals in the world it is the most abundant one, but it could not have been used as it is used today without a cost-efficient method of extracting the metal.

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