Friday, September 24, 2010

Zinc tastic

Micro Metalsmiths has moved into zinc.

For years the company has been asked if we cast Zinc. The process that we employ to make our precision investment castings does not lend it self easily to casting this metal. Therefore the answer has always been:-

"sorry no, not our process".

John Myers our foundry manager and casting technique supremo has looked at the refectory properties in our investment material, frustrated with the fact that we were turning this work away for low to medium batches.  With some minor tweaks John has adapted the refractory material it so that the same complex shapes enjoyed by our aluminium and copper alloy customer.

We are happy to look at pre production batches and supply of components prior to release into die casting or components that just require to be in zinc.

"So do you cast zinc?"

"At Micro's,YES"

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