Casting

CanmetMATERIALS’ Innovative Casting group provides solutions to challenges in the casting of ferrous and non-ferrous alloys. The core capabilities of the group include melting, melt processing, casting methods and heat treatment. In addition to conventional melting and casting equipment, the casting lab has state-of-the-art pilot-scale facilities such as a high-pressure die casting cell with auxiliaries for aluminum and magnesium alloys, a twin-roll casting system for sheet casting, as well as a vacuum induction melting furnace capable of melting steel and titanium. The group provides experimental support to the modeling community by developing databases for the computational modeling of solidification.

The state-of-the-art casting lab is capable of the following:

• Melting of non-ferrous (aluminum, magnesium, copper and zinc) and ferrous (cast irons, steels) materials using air- and vacuum-induction melting (10 to 200 kilograms)
• Casting through sand, permanent and investment mould processes
• Melt processing (degassing, alloy additions, composition check)
• Solidification monitoring (cooling curve analysis, differential scanning calorimetry)
• Twin-roll casting for production of strip

An overview of CanmetMATERIALS’ pilot-scale casting facilities can be found under Pilot-Scale Casting.