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Title: Name of Business or Organization

Description: This describes the website and should note distinguishing features found on the site without the use of hype, personal pronouns, or repetitive terms.

This category contains sites of companies involved in or primarily focused on the variety of ferrous and nonferrous casting processes. The emphasis is on manufacturing or custom supplying both rough cast and machined end products. Most particularly, this "lead-in" category indexes firms engaged in more than one process or, in a few cases, in casting of a relatively rare nature (e.g. continuous strip and bar casting) or type of end product (e.g. band instrument parts). Otherwise, where a site reflects a concentration on one process (e.g. sand casting) more than others -- or even just that one -- it is more logically allocated to its appropriately named subcategory.

Note: The Supplies subcategory is used to gather together the sites of companies that serve the foundry industry with chemicals, consumables, molds, patterns, components, and similar requirements.


Die Casting

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This category indexes sites of companies producing diecast parts and components for a wide variety of customers. The process is one of several different foundry operations and involves injecting molten metal, usually under pressure and often with water cooling, into a hardened steel die that conforms with the required shape. Subsequently, the die is opened and the casting rejected. Machining and finishing the raw casting may then follow, depending on the customer's requirement. On the whole, diecasting is confined to products made in aluminum, zinc, magnesium, and brass metals or alloys.

Note: Where a company produces more than one type of casting, it more logically belongs in -- and should be directed to -- either the main Foundries category (which indexes firms with multiple capabilities) or the one that best matches the major portion of the company's output.

Grey and Ductile Iron

This category will list companies that produce grey and ductile cast iron products as well as companies that provide services to these foundries. This category will include foundries that ship rough castings as well as castings that have been partially or completely machined.

Metal Injection Molding

Please submit firms that are using this process to make contact or custom parts.

Powder Metal

Please submit sites here that use powder metal to create custom or contract part.

Sand Casting

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Semi-Solid Metal Molding

Please submit sites here that represent companies performing Semi-Solid Metal Molding on a contract or custom basis.

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