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By: Reg Zeller 2/4/2026 The Hidden Cost of Cheap Tooling: Why Quality Investment Powers Aluminum Sand Casting Success Imagine pouring thousands of dollars into molten aluminum, only to watch 35% of your castings end up
Collaborating with customers to improve part quality, performance, and cost. Author: Reg Zeller Date: January 29, 2026 After a customer finalizes their design and chooses us as the supplier, or while we are working with
Benefits of Aluminum Prototype Casting Designers/engineers can gain tangible proof of the component’s quality, find unexpected flaws and perform testing that delivers invaluable data. Marketers can use prototypes to gain feedback from customers or investors
Knowledge of casting defects and what causes them is an essential part of managing casting quality. High-quality foundries avoid pitfalls that cause casting defects. Casting defects in a finished product can occur due to defective
Five non-ferrous metal applications which affected global industries in a big way include aluminum aircraft frames, magnesium transmissions, titanium golf clubs, zinc electrical hardware, and bronze gears. Previous Next The Industrial and Transportation Revolutions fueled
Metal Solidification is the comprehensive transformation process of a liquid into a solid and the basis of casting technology, including melting, pouring, and re-solidating a metal or metal alloy within a mold to produce a
Metal casting is when molten metal is poured into a mold and allowed to solidify into an object. The object that solidifies is called a casting. Sand casting is the most widely used metal casting
For over a half-century, Ermak has worked to master and perfect the art of sand mold casting. Sand casting is a popular method of producing non-ferrous alloy casts. This process was invented over 6,000 years
Alloy Definition Alloy: verb, past tense: alloyed; past participle: alloyedmix (metals) to make an alloy.“alloying tin with copper makes bronze” What is a Metal Alloy? An alloy is a mixture of two or more elements with at
For thousands of years, non-ferrous metals have played a part in human innovation. The first metals used by humans were non-ferrous. The use of bronze, a copper and tin alloy, signaled humankind’s transition from the