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Aluminum, uses and processes

Companies who specialize in aluminum cast parts usually also offer zinc cast parts. Die-casting is the preferred method for manufacturing small cast parts. The other metals used in casting aside from aluminum and zinc are magnesium, copper, lead, brass, and tin. Other methods aside from the die cast method are the sand cast, the investment cast, the gravity die or permanent mold. These other methods are ideal for different applications of the cast parts. Each casting process has its own pros and cons.

The aluminum die casting part process is just about the same as for these other metals mentioned here. A mold is prepared from an original. The patterns in the mold are to be duplicated by the cast metal. To make this process of aluminum part castings cost-efficient, several copies are to be made with the one mold. Therefore the mold has to be strong enough to withstand numerous repetitions and still come up with quality detailed products with dimensional accuracy, strength, and other mechanical properties. The metal is melted, and there are different melting points for each metal. The molten metal is then poured or force injected into the mold. As the metal hardens or cures inside its mold, it takes the details and the shape of the mold. The aluminum die casting parts are now formed.

These companies in the metalworking industry have their own foundries, machines, and tooling mechanisms. They provide services to a lot of other industries that require metal in their products. Aeronautics, automobile manufacturing, computer and electronics, consumer products, and a lot more modern industries have a use for aluminum.

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Aluminum analyzed

The world needs such a wide range of products made out of aluminum that some metalworking companies concentrate their businesses solely on aluminum products. Yet even when narrowed down to this one metal, the production activities for said company can be numerous. There is the choice of assembling aluminum die cast parts, powder coating such parts, or perhaps plating them. There is the pressure testing of aluminum products, tooling, mold altering, machining, or casting. More decisions are to be made regarding the aluminum casting process, whether it should be die casting, sand casting, permanent mold casting, or plaster casting. The decision will depend on the design features of the product. Dimension, surface finish, how complex the shape, the mechanical properties and quality needed, and of course the cost factors all come into play. Finally, although a company chooses to exclusively work on aluminum part castings only, the brochure of said corporation would still be filled with hundreds of different products.

This is because the metal aluminum has properties that make it suitable to almost all metalworking applications. Aluminum is malleable, ductile, with good heat and electric conductivity, has a high strength to weight ratio, is non corrosive, and is cheap enough to manufacture. All these qualities make aluminum the #1 metal for industrial applications. Aluminum is found in die cast parts for electronic gadgets, machines, automotive engines, rocket mechanisms, marine products; as well as in day-to-day products like toys and CPU’s. It is also cast to make kitchen utensils like skillets, pots, and pans. High wire electricity uses aluminum. It’s a good thing the metal is abundant in our earth’s crust.

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6918 Beck Avenue
North Hollywood, CA. 91605
818-982-9386 Phone * Sales@Cast-Parts.com.