Pouring molten metal into three-dimensional molds to make metal parts is the basis behind both sand and investment casting. But there are significant differences between these two methods. In sand ...

Sand casting and investment casting are methods of creating metal parts by pouring molten metal into three-dimensional molds. Although methods are thousands of years old, both have been refined over ...

There exists a need for ever more accurate parts and products to be created, and to be created quickly and efficiently. One way of doing this is to use rapid prototyping technologies. Rapid ...

With most casting today, the process starts at the computer, where a part has been designed and needs to be developed for precision sand-casting. The part is broken down to determine how many molds ...

Initially, we used a gas furnace to produce the brackets using a sand casting process. But brackets cast in this way were too hard to machine. Cutters and other machine tools usually broke when we ...

A £1m investment in new machinery and R&D development work on a new material is set to give Alucast a lightweight advantage ...