Investment Casting Benefits at Consolidated Casting Corporation
Weight Reduction
Thin wall IC steel castings offer maximum strength to weight ratios
Premium Casting Tolerances
Tolerances of .003 - .005" can reduce or eliminate costly secondary machining and can often result in a new cast part with little or no waste of material
Excellent Design Flexibility
Design flexibility gives Consolidated Casting Corporation the ability to cast complex shapes and eliminate multi-part fabrications and sub-assemblies
Parts are designed exactly as required
Duplicated precisely in small numbers (hundreds, thousands or even millions)
With proportionate cost advantages
No concessions need to be made for draft angles or other alternative process limitations
Lower Tooling & Part Cost
Tooling for molding of the required wax patterns
Is often less expensive than conventional diecast tooling
Is produced in less time than other types of pattern tooling, resulting in shorter lead times
Can be single cavity manual operation or multi-cavity automatic tooling
Can reduce total costs for finished parts
Has potential life expectancy up to 50 years and one million pieces
