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Basic characteristics of casting industry
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Casting is a method of manufacturing products by pouring liquid metal (molten metal) into molds of a certain shape, after solidifying the metal, we obtain a casting shaped like a mold.

 

Casting has many methods: casting in sand molds, casting in metal molds, pressure casting, centrifugal casting, melt casting, continuous casting, thin shell casting ...


Casting can process many different materials: steel, cast iron, non-ferrous alloys ... weighing from a few grams to several hundred tons (capable of creating large quantities of details that the processing methods other not done).


Casting production is strongly developed and widely used in industries, the average casting volume accounts for about 40% to 80% of the total machine weight, in the mechanical engineering, the casting weight accounts for 80% of the cost only accounts for 20% to 25%. All kinds of castings in cars and light trucks are about 31%. Other fields include construction, mining and oil and gas at about 6%, piping and joints 15%, pumps and compressors 3%, urban 3%, railways 6%, agricultural machinery 6%, 5% valve, internal combustion engine 5% ....

 

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