Mike Doskocil
Casting Service
LaPorte, Ill
Plant Overview
- Gray Iron/Ductile Iron
- Machining Capability
- Casting weights from 50 lbs. to 200,000 lbs.
- Daily pour capacity up to 420,000 lbs.
- Melt Dept. includes 5 VCF's
- Two (2) Wire Treatment Stations
- 125 T Overhead Crane Capacity
Melt Deck
Plant Overview Cont'd
- Full Metallurgical Lab
- Magma Simulation
- Charpy Impact Testing
- Air Set Molding: Largest flask size is 144" x 264".
- Pit molding available
- Multiple Cores and Capabilities
- Markets Served include:
- Wind Energy
- Locomotive Frames
- Forging Dies
- Pumps
Products
Wire Treatment
- Two Treatment Stations
- Nodulizing with 9mm wire, varying between one or two wires.
- Treatment capacity between 6,000 and 65,000 lbs. per treatment.
- Two stations offer flexibility.
- Wire contains elemental Mg
- Recovery is typically 40% at 0.015% base iron sulfur.
- Better recovery in small ladles.
- Have successfully treated 0.025% sulfur iron.
- Can treat less than ladle capacity.
- Generally treat 6000 lbs. minimum.
- Have use wire for 7 years.
Treatment Room
Wire Coils
Control Panel
Treatment
Treatment
Inoculation
- Wire inoculation is performed in same containment room as nodulizing.
- 13mm wire used for inoculation.
- In Mold Inoculation also performed.
Reasons for Using Wire
- Previously treated in an open/sandwich ladle.
- Wire offered a more consistent treatment.
- Wire offered a more environmentally acceptable treatment.
Information
- Mike Doskocil, Casting Service, LaPort, Ill 219-362-1000 x 217
- mdoskocil@castingservice.com
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