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Ductile Iron Casting

Ductile Iron Casting is our specialty. Customers who want machining capabilities know ductile iron provides higher strength than other irons without being brittle.

Our ductile iron is treated by heating the ductile to 2,750 degrees Fahrenheit and adding silicon magnesium alloys.

Iron Type: ASTM A536 / ADI
65-45-12 / 60-40-18 / 80-55-06 / 100-70-63

Casting Size: Less than 1 pound up to 50 pounds

Franklin Iron ductile iron casting

Molding

Two Hunter 10 Automated Molding Machines producing 1,000 to 1,200 (14 inch by 19 inch) molds per shift

Three Hunter 20 Automated Molding Machines producing 800 to 1,000 (20 inch by 24 inch) molds per shift

One SINTO FBO III S Molding Machine producing 1000 to 1200 (20 inch by 24 inch) molds per shift

Handling Systems

SINTO Mold Indexing System

Two True Flow IV Indexing Systems

Two Didion Rotary Sand / Casting Separators

Melting

Two 2,000-pound Electric Induction Furnaces by Inductotherm with 500 kilowatts each to supply the SINTO molding line

Two 3,000-pound Electric Induction Furnace by Ajax with 800 kilowatts to supply the Hunter 10 and Hunter 20 true-flow systems

Two 8,000-pound Electric Induction Furnace by Ajax with 2000 kilowatts to supply the Hunter 10 and two Hunter 20 molding machines

Capacity: 100,000 pounds per shift

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