Overview

A More Functional, Higher Quality Part at a Lower Total Cost

Investment Casting provides true design flexibility for precision parts.

Design Freedom

Investment Casting allows engineers more design freedom to develop complex parts with fine details that can be produced in a wide range of alloys.

• Blended curves
• Complex curves and offset surfaces
• Undercuts
• Inside passages
• "Light weighting" with minimum wall thickness of .060
• Tight cast tolerances of +/- 0.005 inch or +/- 0.005 inch per inch of dimension
• Alloy choice

Lower Costs

The process involves creating an injection molded wax pattern that is then encased in multiple layers of ceramic materials. The wax is melted out with high pressure steam and the resulting shell is fired. Induction melted molten metal is poured into the cavity to produce a precision casting that requires little or no machining - another cost saving.

Induction melting of the metal produces a more uniform, consistent quality product.

As expensive machining can be minimized or eliminated, the investment casting process is often the most economical way to produce precision parts.

More Functional Product

When the investment casting decision is made early in the design process, it opens up the possibility of building more functionality into the part and providing better dimensional control while generating cost savings further along the production process.