Metal casting has a history of thousands of years in China. Do you know the history and development of metal casting? Do you know the essence of it?
The method of pouring “hot metal” (in industry parlance) into castes or molds and change it into a definite shape after cooling is the basic idea behind metal casting. Metal casting is an age old technique, went through many improvisation, and transformed into a revolutionary process of industrial casting. Metal customization needs, economical viability and artistic needs have given a new dimension to the metal casting industry.
With the advent of new alloys and metals, the industrial revolution arrived at a new heights, and industrial hope of metal customization has also reached at its best optimism. Seeing the demand and opportunity to make fortune, many mid level manufacturers sprung and later became a big names in the industry. The fast industrialization of metal casting paved way to new ideas of implementation at commercial level. With the advance research, the casting procedures in the metal casting industry results a high volume of units, which are also of better quality.
The metal casting has also become an accessible industry because of its low cost set up and implementation. The process of metal casting is simple and require minimum skill to perform. The basic requirement is a furnace to heat the raw solid metal or alloy to molten level at high temperature and molds or casts this metal to give the desired shape.
The metal casting industry uses a procedure that is classified as non-disposable and involves processes that retain the cast or mold for various applications. The molds that are made up of sand, plaster or plastics, which are once used and unfit for application in the metal casting industry. Due to several applications of metal casting, it is a preferred choice because of cost effectiveness and continuous metal casting process.