MICROSTEEL, a hard metal machining specialist company (Alacrite, Inconel®, Titanium), relies on its dedicated workshop for all types of machining operations for the finishing of investment or centrifugal cast metal parts.
A ceramic mold is created around the wax part pattern and then removed before casting the metal. Investment casting delivers optimum metal part surface finish with very tight dimensional tolerances.
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Advantages of investment casting
- Tighter dimensional tolerances, reducing or eliminating subsequent machining (js 14 mechanical tolerances)
- Single part small to medium-volume production runs
- Multi-alloys
- Repetitive production runs
- 3D print-based prototype manufacture
Investment casting manufacturing stages
- Wax pattern injection
- Wax pattern cluster assembly
- Primary layer coating
- Shell strengthening on an automated line
- Élimination de la cire par autoclave
- Couler du métal après cuisson de la carapace
- Dewaxing
- Parts cutting and finishing
- Heat treatment
- Parts machining
- X-ray, penetrant and dimensional parts inspection
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Processed alloys and grades
Our air induction and vacuum melting equipment can cast a wide array of alloys..
- Structural steels
- Stainless steels
- Superalloys
- Ni base alloys
- Co base alloys
- Titanium
Fields of application
Due to its very high dimensional precision and optimum surface finish, investment casting is applied in highly demanding fields of application.
- Aeronautics
- Power generation (oil & gas, nuclear…)
- Medical
- Defense
- Motor sports
- Vintage vehicles
- Industries
- Steel industry
Our investment casting resources
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- 5 to 50 T injection presses
- 1 robotic coating line
- 1 finishing line
- 2 x 60 Kg air induction melting furnaces
- 1 x 25 Kg vacuum melting furnace
- 1 x 80 Kg vacuum melting furnace for superalloys and a 25 Kg furnace for titanium
- 3 vacuum heat treatment ovens
- 1 fluorescent penetrant line
- 2 x-ray booths (film and digital prints)
- 1 3D dimensional inspection room, 3D arm and scanner
- 1 chemical and metallography test laboratory