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Article: Ceramic breaks the mold: when rising prices forced a steel caster to shop around for an alternative molding aggregate, it opted to give ceramic a try.
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- Modern Casting
- Article date:
- March 1, 2007
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AmeriCast's Amite Foundry and Machine Inc. used zircon sand at its nobake casting facility in Amite, La, for specialty applications, but its rising costs due to increasing global demand had Junior Chavers, plant operations manager, looking for an alternative.
The type and quality of molding aggregate can mean the difference between a defect-ridden casting and a showroom-worthy component, so metalcasting facilities take great care in choosing their molding media and catering their operations to the chosen aggregate.
As a basic ingredient for most metalcasting operations, sand's role in casting is anything but simple. Molding sand must fit the ...
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