Aluminium castings
Description of the manufacturing process
To produce aluminium alloy castings we use the following technologies:
1.
Manual moulding in sand moulds
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Melting equipment:
crucible tilting furnace CACD 350 Al using electrical resistance -
Mould frames:
maximum dimensions 1600 x 1600 x 350 mm -
Casting weight:
from 0.5 kg up to approx. 70 kg -
Plant capacity:
production capacity of the manual moulding plant is approx. 4 MT / month
2.
Mechanical moulding in sand moulds
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Melting equipment:
2 x crucible tilting furnace CACD 350 Al using electrical resistance -
Moulding machines:
a pair of FORMAT 10 machines with max. frame dimensions 500 x 400 x 200 mm
a pair of FORMAT 30/ RETOMAT 30 machines with max. frame dimensions 850 x 750 x 300 mm -
Core plant:
CT mixture
cores manufactured manually
cores manufactured by explosion type core blower ROPER - volume 12L
COLD BOX cores -
Casting weights:
FORMAT 10 - from 0.5 kg up to approx. 10 kg
FORMAT 30 - from 1.0 kg up to 28 kg -
Plant capacity:
production capacity of FORMAT 10 is approx. 10 t / month
production capacity of FORMAT 30 is approx. 30 t / month
3.
Gravity casting into permanent moulds
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Fusing equipment:
1 x electrical resistance crucible furnace HINDENLANG 120 Al
2 x electrical resistance crucible furnace HINDENLANG 110 Al -
Moulding machines:
3 x permanent mould machine with hydraulic cylinders -
Casting weights:
from 0.1 kg up to approx. 5 kg -
Plant capacity:
production capacity of permanent moulds is approx. 10 t / month
Engineering
The ALACO s.r.o. company provides casting technology solutions
and designs of pattern/permanent mould equipment using own know-how.
Additional operations provided by ALACO through cooperation with other subjects:
- manufacture of pattern equipment
- manufacture of permanent moulds for gravity casting
- heat treatment of castings
- mechanical machining of castings
- impregnation of castings
- painting of castings
- tightness test on castings
- welding of castings and aluminium structures
- sand blasting