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Tooling And Forming Dies: Tips For Selecting The Best Alloy For Your Application
You have designed your tooling or forming die based on the finished part you need, and you know...
3 Examples Using Metal Castings for Tooling in Aerospace Applications
Hot forming and superplastic forming dies are a tool used to form a material to a desired shape....
4 Examples When the Investment Casting (Lost Wax) Process Solved A Customer’s Problem
Think of a problem that you face in metal component design or application. MetalTek helps companies just like...
MetalTek International’s Safety Culture
MetalTek’s top priority is safety. Our safety culture is based on the ideas that safety is everyone’s responsibility...
MetalTek Announces Karen Loritz as Chief Financial Officer
Press Release MetalTek International, a leading global manufacturer of critical metal components that power, protect, and connect the...
5 Examples of How the Centrifugal Casting Process Helped A Customer
Are you facing a problem with any of your metal components? Does your gut tell you there has...
Metal Casting Processes Compared: When to consider a specific process
What are the different types of metal casting processes and which casting process should you use to manufacture...
What Are Tool Steel Alloys?
Tool steel alloys are high carbon chrome steels containing differing amounts of molybdenum, cobalt and/or vanadium or other...
Centrifugal Casting Process: Featured Solution Examples
Think of a problem that you face in metal component design or application. Here are some examples of...
Ferritic Stainless Steel Material Profile
Grade Ferritic Stainless Steels. Description Stainless steels owe their ability to resist corrosion primarily to the presence of...
Continuous Casting Process: Featured Solution Examples
Think of a problem that you face in metal component design or application. Here are some examples of...
Ferralium Duplex Stainless Steel Material Profile
Grade Ferralium® 255 (J32550 / Licensed by Langley Alloys) Description Proprietary high strength duplex stainless steel Duplex Stainless...