Precision Casting Services

At Glidewell Specialties Foundry Co., we take pride in our 5 decade tradition of providing high precision casting services. At our jobbing foundry and job-shop, we provide flask and flaskless no-bake sand casting, utilizing MAGMASoft Software for solidification analysis. We cast all grades of ductile and grey iron to create components of a variety of sizes, including widths up to 180", lengths up to 474", and weights up to 28,000 lbs. Our vast array of equipment includes two 12,000 pound coreless induction furnaces, five sand mixers, 19 element chemical spectrometer, a carbon and sulfur determinator, among other advanced casting machinery. We also offer a wide range of non-destructive testing (NDT) from our facility, including die penetrant and ultrasonic testing, as well as magnetic particle inspection. Our ISO 9001:2008 certified facility guarantees the utmost quality of our products, meeting many high industry standards as set by the ASME and ASTM.

To learn more about our precision casting services, please see the following table or feel free to contact us directly.

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Precision Casting Capabilities

General Capabilities: Jobbing Foundry
Job-Shop

Product Capabilities: Large Castings

Casting Method

No Bake

Flask
Flaskless
MAGMASoft Software utilized for Solidification Analysis

Casting Mold Type: No-Bake Sand

Materials: Ductile Iron-All Grades
Grey Iron-All Grades

Casting Width: Max
180 in
4572 mm

Casting Length: Max
180 in up to 474 in
4572 mm up to 18,661 mm

Casting Weight

Min 1,000 lbs: Max
28000 lbs

Tons Per Month: Up to 1250 Tons

Equipment: (2) 12,000 Pound Coreless Induction Furnaces
5 Sand Mixers
19 element chemical Spectrometer
Carbon and Sulfur Determinator
Tensile Testing
MAGMA Solidification Modeling
Complete Miscroscopy Lab
2 Large pass through Shot Blast Machines

Additional Services Provided

Machining
Pattern Design & Build
Leak Testing
NDT

X-Ray
Die Penetrant
Ultrasonic Testing (UT)
Magnetic Particle Inspection (MPI)

Shot blasting
Heat Treatment
Brinell Hardness Testing

Production Volume: Prototype
Low Volume
High Volume
Short Run
Long Run

Additional Information

Industry Focus: Water Works
Heavy Equipment
Steel Mill
Mining/Mineral
Wind Power
Oil & gas
Machine
Heavy Construction
Pump Manufacturing

Intended Applications: Valve Bodies
Bearing Bases
Pump Frames
Machine Bases
Gear Components

Industry Standards

ASME
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
ASTM
American Society for Testing and Materials
DIN
(Deutsche Industrie-Normen) A general term relating to the official standards of Germany.
ISO
International Organization for Standardization

ISO 9001:2008

Mil-Spec
Military Specifications
Lloyds Register

Castings In Grey and Spheroidal Graphite Iron

File Formats: AutoCAD (DWG)
BMP
Bit Mapped Graphics
GIF
Graphics Interchange Format
IGES
Initial Graphics Exchange Specification, ANSI file format.
Inventor (IDW, IPT)
JPG or JPEG
Joint Photographic Experts Group
for exchanging data between
advanced CAD and CAM programs.
PDF
Portable Document Format
SolidWorks (SLDPRT,SLDDRW,SLDDRT)
STEP
Standard for the Exchange of Product Model Data
TIFF
Tagged Image File Format