Ward Corporation - Ward Aluminum Casting

Ward Aluminum Casting

Ward Aluminum Casting, Inc. manufactures high-quality aluminum castings in sand, semi-permanent and permanent mold processes. From non-heat treated commercial grades to high-strength heat-treated alloys, WAC produces low-volume prototype to high-production quantities, and is able to tailor their methods to meet the customers' casting and production requirements.

An in-house lab includes a 23-element vacuum spectrograph, fluoroscopic x-ray unit and other advanced foundry lab testing equipment including penetrant inspection capability. WAC utilizes nitrogen-producing generators, rotary flux injection systems and mechanical filtering to clean and degas metal. These procedures achieve premium quality properties in aluminum - an industry recognized achievement.

The olivine sand system enhances the molding equipment which includes a B&P 2016 automatic molding machine, and three #3191 Osbourn Rotolift molding machines, with flask size up to 32" x 52". The permanent mold area includes automatic tilt-pour and static molding devices, producing both permanent and semi-permanent mold castings.

Equipment:

Sand Mold:

Beardsley & Piper BSM-2016 (2)
CM2500 Ring Mullor - 60 tons per hour
Osborn 3191-8 SN 6435 Line 3
Osborn 3191-20 SN 18023 Line 5
Osborn 3191-8 SN 17226-B Line 6
Hartley Mullor - 15 tons per hour
GS7 Vibrating Machine - 100,000 lbs. per hour
Inline Simplicity Sand Cleaning System

Permanent Mold:

Hall-6 HMT3T2 Tilt Pout Permanent Mold Device
Hall HM3T Tilt Pour Permanent Mold Devices (3)
Huron A Gravity Permanent Mold Device
Huron B Gravity Permanent Mold Device
Huron C Gravity Permanent Mold Device
Stahl 1 Large Tilt Pour Permanent Mold Device
Stahl 2 Small Tilt Pour Permanent Mold Device
CMI C-38/32-39-15 C-Frame Tilt Pour Permanent Mold Device
Floor #9 Tilt Devices (8) - 32" x 38" Platens
Floor #10 Gravity Devices (8)

Clean & Finish:

Knock-Out Machines (8)
Tannewitz Band Saw (4)
Do-All Band Saw )2_
North Tech. Band Saw
36" Band Saws (6)
20" Band Saw
Chop Saw
Radial Arm Saw
Belt Grinders (8)
2-Speed Grinder
#176 Safety Rite Grinder
36" Disc Sander
8" Vertical Belt Sanders (2)
Shot Blast Machines (4)
Age Over
Dunk Test Tanks (2)

Core Room

4360 Shalco Shell Core Machine
Redford 26 HS-26-RA/UL
Redford 22 HS-22-RA/UL
Redford 22 HS-22-RA (2)
Redford 16 HS-16-RA-1275-31
Redford 16 4516-RA-381-439
Beardsley & Piper FS-10
Beardsley & Piper SF-6-1
Beardsley & Piper SF-6-2
Beardsley & Piper SF-6-3
Beardsley & Piper SF-6-4
Rotary Assembly Table
Palmer Mixer M100
Palmer Mixer M50
Core Racks

Melt Department

Electric Resistance Furnace - 18,000 lb. (2)
Electric Resistance Furnace - 10,000 lb.
Gas Fired Dry Hearth Furnace - 30,000 lb., 8,000lb., 6,500 lb.
Rotary Degasser (5)
Balston 75-92 Nitrogen Generator
Thermco Gas Mixer
Pyrotek 4150-F130 Flux Injection Unit (Demo)
Gas-Fired Crucible Furnaces (6)
Amcor Flux Injection Machines

Shell Test Equipment

Dietert Hot Tensile Strength Shell Sand Test Machine
Dietert Cold Tensile Strength Shell Sand Test Machine
Parr Melting Point Shell Sand Test Machine
Thermolyne Type 2000 Furnaces (2)
Dietert Core Scratch Tester

Green Sand Test Equipment

Dietert Methylene Blue Testing Set
Dietert Universal Sand Strength Machine
Dietert Sand Rammers w/Compactability Tester (3)
Dietert Electric Permmeter
Dietert Electric Moisture Teller
Dietert Green Hardness "C" Scale (2)
Nuova II Hot Stir Plate
Dietert Mold Hardness Tester

Lab & Test Equipment

Baird DV-4 23-Element Vacuum Spectrometer
Gemini Industrial Fluoroscope X-Ray Unit
Physical Service BHN Tester
Scherr & Ermico 10 x 20 Microscope
Reichert 800x Metallograph Microscope w/Camera
Bausch & Lomb Electric Brinell Scope
Thermo Analysis (2)
t2000/Satec Tensil Machine

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