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News Release from: P I Castings. Metal Injection Mouldings | Subject: Investment casting
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 21 November 2005
Investment casting enables part
complexity
Metal parts with complex shapes usually mean high costs, but not so with investment castings - the more complex the shape, the more economic the process becomes, in comparison to other techniques.
Metal parts with complex shapes usually mean high costs, but not so with investment castings The more complex the shape, the more economic the process becomes, in comparison to other manufacturing techniques
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 21 Nov 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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As a specialist manufacturer of Precision Investment Castings and Rapid Prototypes, P I Castings have a lot to offer to designers, production engineers and procurement managers who are looking for design flexibility and economic production of metal parts.
Investment castings offer complex-shaped parts produced with close tolerances, fine detail and a smooth surface, saving production costs by reducing machining to the minimum.
Castings are made in sizes from 5mm to 600mm in a very wide range of metals including aluminium, low alloy steels, stainless and tool steels, brass, bronze and zinc.
The highest quality standards are met, for use for general engineering industries, medical applications, defence and aerospace requirements.
P I Castings have their own facility for producing Rapid Prototype investment castings without the need for tooling.
Customers' CAD designs are used to create wax models using a 3D printer, which are then used in the conventional 'lost-wax' process to produce castings in aluminium, low alloy steels, stainless, bronze, zinc or any other cast metal.
Castings can be made in as little as three weeks, saving on development times and cost.
Investment Castings and Metal Rapid Prototypes will be displayed on the P I Castings Stand No.
K40 at the UK's Southern Manufacturing Exhibition.
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