Back in the dark ages—known to some as the '80s—it took twice as much effort to make half as much horsepower. The payoff for turning down the journals on a 400 Chevy crank, dropping it in a 350 block, ...

Alfred University is partnering with the Investment Casting Institute (ICI) on a federally-funded project researching ways to utilize 3-D printing in the casting and forging manufacturing processes.

Automakers are investing in new technology that enables them to produce large castings. The goal is to consolidate parts, ...

Continuous casting is a pivotal process in modern metallurgy, whereby molten metal is solidified into semi-finished slabs or billets through a continuous operation. The process encompasses complex ...

There are ten basic steps in the investment casting process. 1. A metal die is used to produce an expendable pattern, now almost universally a complex blend of resin, filler and wax. Precision ...

The question of whether to machine or die-cast during production usually comes down to cost, especially as advancements in die-casting technology now mean there’s little to separate the two ...

Engineers often have an important decision to make when they design and source a metal part: Should it be machined or die cast? In the past, a cursory review of production volumes, tolerances, ...

In a variety of industries, casting and forging are popular methods of creating components and parts. In spite of this, the processes are very different from one another, and the products produced by ...