Lexicon of the manufacturing industry

• Gravity casting moulds

  A mold is a metallic mold used for the production of precise workpieces with good surface quality. Moulds often consist of cast iron or copper plates and are widely used in metalworking industry. The mold is the technical basis of the mold casting process and has proved successful in the production of large forging blanks, slabs for sheet metal products, billets for wire, rod and profile products and other components. In the mold casting process, the metallic melt is poured into the mold via the above-lying injection and cures there. Depending on the casting process, a mold can be used up to 100,000 times, resulting in a high cost.

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• Grey iron casting

  The cast iron is an iron material which has a high graphite carbon content and thus assumes its characteristic gray color. The material is hard and brittle but has good thermal conductivity, advantageous damping properties and excellent compressive strength. Grey casting is usually produced as cast iron with lamellar graphite and has excellent casting properties as well as a high cost efficiency. The material is used across the industry to produce components with high wear resistance requirements.

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