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April 6, 2009

The Aluminum Cast Parts Process: Why It Is Superior

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The Aluminum die Casting Parts Process: Why It Is Superior. The aluminum casting process is considered superior over all other casting process available today, including plaster casting, die casting, investment casting, sand casting, permanent mold casting, and continuous casting, to name a few. The industrialized world enjoys the variety of advantages that the said casting process offers. Aluminum, unknown to many, is one of the few chosen metals that can be cast using any of the processes employed for the casting of metals. This makes aluminum part castings versatile and economical, top reasons why many businesses in the metalworking industry prefer it over other metals.

Many factors are taken into consideration in the selection of the most appropriate casting process for the production of a specific aluminum alloy part. In the aluminum casting process, the most important factors to consider boil down to these three: feasibility, cost, and quality. Because the process requires much attention to the planning stage, it is able to produce the finest products, as opposed to other casting processes that are only operation-oriented.

The benefits of using the aluminum casting process are many. For one, aluminum alloy parts are known to equal or even exceed normal construction steel’s strength even though aluminum in itself only carries a third of the density of steel. Structures under shock loads also find favor for aluminum cast parts because they have high elasticity levels, not to mention high resistance levels to weather, liquids, and atmospheric gases. Aluminum also stands tall beside copper; the former conducts both heat and electricity just as well as the latter. For all these reasons and more, the aluminum casting process remains the best among all other casting processes out there.

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