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The MetalTek Video Library
Because we are more than just a metal casting supplier, the MetalTek video library is a great resource to learn more about various casting processes and the MetalTek story. We strive to be a metals partner through education and collaboration and getting you the information you need, when you need it. If you have additional questions, please contact us.
MetalTek Corporate Overview
Defense. Aerospace. Petrochemical. Turbine Engine. Nuclear. Energy. Marine. Paper. Process Equipment. What do companies in these industries have in common? They demand more from their metals suppliers. They demand highly engineered products that stand up to extreme temperature, severe wear, and harsh corrosive environments. Components made to the most exacting specifications and compliant to the industry's most rigorous standards.
Horizontal Centrifugal Casting
What is centrifugal casting? This video shows what happens during the centrifugal casting process. High g-forces applied to the molten metal in the spinning die move the less dense material, including impurities, to the I.D. where it is subsequently removed by machining.
Vertical Centrifugal Casting
What is centrifugal casting? This video shows what happens during the centrifugal casting process. High g-forces applied to the molten metal in the spinning die move the less dense material, including impurities, to the I.D. where it is subsequently removed by machining.
Investment Casting
In lost wax investment casting, a sacrificial detailed wax pattern of the desired finished part is created and mounted onto a wax "tree", which includes the metal delivery system (gates and risers). The tree is alternately dipped into a ceramic slurry and sprinkled with stucco material, and is allowed to dry. The wax pattern is melted out leaving a cavity in the shape of the pattern. The cavity is filled with molten metal. After solidification, the shell is broken away, the gating material removed, and the finished part remains.
Sand Casting
Sand casting as a technology has been around for millennia, and is selected as a preferred method to produce shaped parts that weigh less than a pound, to very large parts. The process is versatile and cost effective, even for low volume runs because of tooling cost. Nearly any part configuration that can be made using another casting process can be reduced to a pattern and created as a sand casting.
Petrochem Market
Petrochemical processing plants demand safety in extreme, high temperature and pressure conditions. Customers specify exceptional MetalTek alloys for superior performance and productivity in fabricated assemblies that operate under pressure at 1700 to 2000 degrees Fahrenheit, for 10 years or more.
Turbine Engine Market
Our Turbine Engine customers require integrity, traceability, and conformance to stringent industry standards and certifications. Jet engine manufacturers have reduced machining costs by 80 percent using our unique Net-Shape technologies which combine the benefits of investment and centrifugal casting processes. Helping to make MetalTek a near 100 percent supplier of compressor cases for the world's jet engines.
Defense Market
The Defense industry stretches the limits of performance. Engineering collaboration with MetalTek helps meet those challenges with innovative products and processes. Metal Matrix Composite material developed by MetalTek solved the Navy's wear problem when they switched to non-asbestos drum linings on winches that transfer supplies from replenishment vessels.
Industrial Market
Thousands of customers in food processing, paper, power generation, and countless industrial markets demand and get more than metal from MetalTek. Our singular ability to make very large investment castings eliminates costly fabrication and polishing while conforming to strict specifications like USDA certified meat grinding.
Horizontal Centrifugal Casting Animation
Animation showing what happens during the centrifugal casting process. High g-forces applied to the molten metal in the spinning die move the less dense material, including impurities, to the I.D. where it is subsequently removed by machining.
Vertical Centrifugal Casting Animation
Animation showing what happens during the vertical centrifugal casting process. Centrifugal casting is a process that delivers castings of very high material soundness, and thus is the technology of choice for applications like jet engine compressor cases, petrochemical furnace tubes, many military products, and other high-reliability applications.