Shaping
Continuous Cast In Deicer Application - The net shaping of components using continuous casting has helped customers avoid expensive machining and milling cost, even for smaller parts.
Controllable Pitch Hub - Large MetalTek bronze centrifugal components in marine applications have eliminated fabrication costs, and defects only found after machining.
Food Processing Grinder - Very large 280# investment castings replaced fabrications, reduced labor cost, and provided product consistency for a food processing customer.
Hastelloy Alloy Development - A valve customer's desire to move into new markets was limited by their inability to find a foundry to co-develop a special alloy, until they came to MetalTek.
Net Shape Compressor Case - MetalTek's unique Net Shaping reduced machining cost of flight turbine compressor cases by up to 80%.
Powerplant Impellers - MetalTek has produced impeller components in next generation duplex and super austenitic stainless steels for high corrosion and brackish water environments.
Rapid Prototyping Turbine Engine - The combination of SLA and Net Shaping allowed a turbine customer to cut development time by using an actual production casting for early product development.
Sandia National Labs - Very large investment castings provided dimensional stability that fabrications could not in applications like energy research.
Sigma Blades - By managing sources of part distortion in the manufacturing process and developing a special alloy, MetalTek was able to provide a mixer manufacturer with large components that would fit into an especially tight tolerance envelope.
Spiral Cast Pipe ID - ID shaping of centrifugals has helped the chemical processing industry improve efficiency by up to 4x by keeping in-process fluid materials moving.
Spiral Cone For Orange Juice Centrifuge - Rotating parts using sand castings are often nearly impossible to balance. So a food processing customer employed MetalTek centrifugals for their application because metal is more homogeneous and evenly balanced.
Stellarator Casting - Proprietary alloys developed for extreme cryogenic temperatures of 77°K helped make castings for the fusion research Stellarator possible.
Tunner Support Arm - MetalTek produced radiographic quality box-beam support components up to 14' long in alloy 17-4 for the military's Tunner program to reduce weight in a heavy cargo application.
Valve Cages - A hybrid sand and centrifugal casting process eliminated latent defects and machine scrap by 98% in components for a large valve customer.
Vortex Meter Bodies - Versatile tooling and precise manufacturing controls have reduced inventory cost and improved quality of investment castings for meter body customers.
Waterjet Rotor - The unique combination of very large intricate investment casting and a highly corrosion-resistant alloy was the solution in a new marine propulsion system.
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