Investment Casting

• Investment casting is an industrial • Today, more advanced waxes,

process based on lost-wax casting, refractory materials and specialist
alloys are typically used for making
one of the oldest known metal- patterns. Investment casting is valued
forming techniques. for its ability to produce components
• Investment casting has been used in with accuracy, repeatability,
various forms for the last 5,000 versatility and integrity in a variety of
metals and high-performance alloys.
years. In its earliest forms, beeswax
was used to form patterns necessary • The fragile wax patterns must
withstand forces encountered during
for the casting process. the mold making. Much of the wax
used in investment casting can be
reclaimed and reused
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 Lost – Foam Casting
• Lost-foam casting (LFC) is • Over the past 20 — 25
a casting method used to years, almost 30% of the
create solid metal parts die cast components
from molten metal. The have come to be
cost of production of produced by the LFC
these castings by the LFC process.
process is much less
relative to the
conventional processes,
such as sand casting
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