Castings
A 6,000 year old process in which hot metal is poured into a mold to take a specific shape, casting is one of the most fundamental capabilities of TRIA Group.
We are prepared to provide components manufactured by the following processes:
Depending on your business requirement, casting may offer advantages over machining, forging, welding, stamping, rolling, extruding, and other processes. Several reasons you may choose casting include:
- Shape: The most intricate of shapes, both external and internal, may be cast. As a result, many other operations, such as machining, forging, and welding, can be minimized or eliminated.
- Metal types: Because of their physical properties, some metals can only be cast to shape since they cannot be hot-worked into bars, rods, plates, or other shapes from ingot form as a preliminary to other processing.
- Construction may be simplified. Objects may be cast in a single piece which would otherwise require assembly of several pieces if made by other methods.
- Mass production: Metal casting is a process highly adaptable to the requirements of mass production. Large numbers of a given casting may be produced very rapidly.
- Extremely large, heavy metal objects may be cast when they would be difficult or economically impossible to produce otherwise. Large pump housing, valves, and hydroelectric plant parts weighing up to 200 tons illustrate this advantage of the casting process.
Several engineering properties are also obtained which provide advantages in casting, such as:
- Uniformity: More uniform properties from a directional standpoint; i.e., cast metals exhibit the same properties regardless of which direction is selected for the test piece relative to the original casting. This is not generally true for wrought metals.
- Strength and lightness in certain light metal alloys, which can be produced only as castings.
- Good bearing qualities are obtained in casting metals.
- A decided economic advantage may exist as a result of any one or a combination of points mentioned above.