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CARBON STEEL CASTING SERVICES
What are Carbon Steel Castings?
Carbon steel castings are components manufactured from carbon steel, where carbon is the primary alloying element. While containing small amounts of other elements like manganese, silicon, and copper, their presence is not significant. The properties of these castings are largely determined by the carbon content, leading to classifications of low, medium, and high carbon steels, each with varying hardness, strength, and ductility. Casting processes are frequently employed to efficiently produce complex shapes in carbon steel. Investment casting is one of the most widely used metal casting processes for producing complex, high-performance carbon steel parts.
Our Advanced Carbon Steel Casting Capabilities
Taiyuan Simis Investment Casting Co., Ltd. is a professional investment casting manufacturer in China, providing comprehensive carbon steel casting services. Besides investment casting, we offer a range of casting processes, including sand casting and shell mold casting, each suited to different project requirements. Our advanced investment casting process, featuring our innovative rapid drying technology, enable us to achieve faster production cycles and improved shell strength for high-precision applications. To learn more about carbon steel investment casting, check our carbon steel investment casting article.
Combined with stringent quality control and our expertise in carbon steel across all casting methods, we deliver exceptionally strong, durable, and cost-effective components that meet the diverse applications. We supply high-quality carbon steel castings for a wide range of industries including automotive, marine, railway, mining and construction, energy sector, machinery, agriculture and many more.
In-House Tooling Design and Manufacture
Our in-house tooling design and manufacturing capabilities allow us to tailor solutions to meet clients’ specific requirements. By working directly with our engineers, clients can ensure their designs are optimized for carbon steel casting, achieving the desired performance characteristics and meeting precise specifications, even for highly customized designs.
Automated Wax Pattern Creation Process
For carbon steel investment castings, the quality of the final product begins with the wax pattern. At Taiyuan Simis, we understand this crucial link and utilize advanced, automated wax injection machines to create precise and consistent patterns. This automated process minimizes manual handling, reducing the risk of defects and ensuring that the final castings accurately reflect the intended design.
Advanced Shell Building Technique
Our innovative silica sol binder has significantly improved shell quality by increasing the melting point, preventing breakage during pouring. We use advanced automated shell building machines for carbon steel castings to achieve precision and consistency in shell creation. Our automated process allows precise control over each dipping and coating cycle, resulting in robust shells with optimal strength and integrity, even for complex and demanding designs. This ultimately leads to higher quality castings and reduced production variability.
Automated Controlled Drying System
Our unique shell-building formula and automated controlled drying system dramatically improve production efficiency for carbon steel castings by reducing shell drying time. Precise control of temperature, humidity, and airflow allows for uniform drying, prevents defects, and optimizes shell strength.
Our Carbon Steel Expertise
At Taiyuan Simis, we offer expertise in casting a broad spectrum of carbon steel grades using investment casting, sand casting and shell mold casting techniques, ensuring the optimal material selection for diverse applications.
- Low-Carbon Steels (e.g., 1008, 1018, 1020, A36): We are capable of casting low-carbon steels, characterized by their low carbon content (typically less than 0.30%). This composition imparts excellent weldability, enabling easy joining through various welding techniques. These grades also exhibit good formability, allowing for shaping and bending without cracking. While their hardness and strength are lower compared to medium- and high-carbon steels, we can ensure good ductility and toughness in our low-carbon steel castings.
- Medium-Carbon Steels (e.g., 1040, 1045, 1050, 1060): We routinely cast medium-carbon steels, which offer a balanced combination of strength, toughness, and wear resistance due to their medium carbon content (typically 0.30% to 0.60%). Our casting processes are optimized to handle these grades, which offer higher strength and hardness than low-carbon steels while maintaining reasonable machinability. We also offer heat treatment services to further enhance the mechanical properties of our medium-carbon steel castings, improving their hardness and wear resistance as needed.
- High-Carbon Steels (e.g., 1070, 1080, 1095): We also have the capability to cast high-carbon steels, characterized by their high carbon content (typically 0.60% to 1.00% or higher). This composition results in high hardness, wear resistance, and strength. Our casting and heat treatment processes are designed to handle the specific challenges associated with these grades, which can be hardened significantly through heat treatment for applications requiring resistance to wear and abrasion. While these grades are less ductile and more difficult to weld compared to low- and medium-carbon steels, our expertise allows us to achieve high-quality castings even with these demanding materials.
Our Carbon Steel Casting Advantages
Excellent Surface Finish
We use premium, specifically formulated ceramic slurries and waxes for optimal mold creation, employ advanced automated production systems to minimize manual handling and achieve consistent processing, and capitalize on the expertise of our engineers to control all process parameters. Carbon steel castings manufactured from our combined technology and method have superior surface finish.
Overcoming Complex Geometries and Structures
For carbon steel castings, our rich casting experience delivers high-quality results for even the most complex designs. We are capable of using precision-made ceramic cores for intricate internal structures, expertly designed tooling and gating systems for proper metal flow, and optimized pouring and cooling strategies to avoid shrinkage, distortion, and residual stress, providing structural integrity and dimensional accuracy.
High Production Capacity
Taiyuan Simis, with a stunning 2000-ton annual capacity across investment, sand, and shell mold casting, manages any scale carbon steel project, delivering quality and on-time results.
