Material: Aluminium Alloy A356, A413, A360 Manufacturing Process: Sand Casting + CNC Machining Weight: 8.52 kg Application: Heavy Duty Truck
Aluminium and its alloys could be poured by high pressure die casting, low pressure die casting, gravity casting, sand casting, investment casting and lost foam casting. Usually, the aluminum alloy castings have less weight but complex structure.
Aluminum castings are made by die casting or permanent mold casting process, however, if you do not have very high requirement to the surface quality and defects, then sand casting process is a good choice due to the much lower costs and toolings charges. Generally speaking, shell molding process is a good sand casting process for producing aluminum castings.
Sand casting could be divided into several categories such as green sand casting, shell mold casting and dry sand casting. The green sand casting adopts the green (wet) sand to make the molding systems, while the shell mold casting adopts some resin coated sand. However, some sand casting foundries also take lost lost foam casting and vacuum casting as dry sand casting, just because the sand used for these two casting processes are dry and don't use any adhensive materials to make the molding systems. If you are interested, you can visit our other pages to know more about other other castings processes and the comparion of them with green sand casting.
The sand casting process offers the greatest flexibility and the most cost-effective tooling. Combined with the lastest equipment in sand casting technology and dedicated workforce, the sand casting foundry of RMC are able to tackle any desired requirements. Our sand casting components are serving many industries of high demand such as oil & gas, rail trains and automotive.