Machining Ductile Iron Castings: What Sets the Cost per Part
Nodular graphite makes ductile iron strong, tough and worth specifying. It also makes th...
Precision Ductile Iron Castings: What Decides Whether a Batch Ships
A compressor housing can carry a perfect material certificate and still be scrapp...
Casting metallurgy and sourcing
Heat Treated Ductile Iron Castings: The Matrix You Specify Is the Part You Get
Graphite nodules make ductile iron duc...
A 1.8-ton compressor body leaves the shakeout with clean edges and passes its dimensional check, then fails at the machining centre: a dark, smeared ...
Material Selection Guide for Industrial Buyers
Grey Ductile Iron Castings: Matching the Metal to the Machine
Not every cast iron part should be grey...
A pump housing is easy to specify until someone asks whether it should be grey iron or ductile iron. Both metals pour from the same family of cast ir...
The Hard Truth About Carbides in Ductile Iron Castings
Carbide formation is a common reason a visually acceptable casting becomes a machining and rel...
A ductile iron rotor hub for a modern wind turbine can weigh more than ten tonnes. It is cast, machined, and then bolted to a tower that may rise th...
Casting Metallurgy, Explained
Chunky Graphite in Ductile Iron Castings: Why It Forms and How Foundries Prevent It
A defect that hides in the slowest-...
The compressor manufacturer recently asked us to review a cylinder casting that kept cracking at the discharge valve seat after roughly 8,000 operati...
A pump casing that has to survive decades of seawater service. A compressor cylinder that must hold its bore geometry at 480°C. A valve body that has...
Why Ductile Iron Castings Are the Practical Choice for Structural Components
A pump manufacturer we worked with recently replaced a welded steel disc...
Materials Engineering — Foundry Notes
Grey Cast Iron vs Ductile Cast Iron
A closer look at how one small change in graphite geometry rewrites the mec...
Materials Engineering — Mechanical Behavior
Why Grey Cast Iron Fails Under Bending
An inside look at the graphite flake structure that makes grey cas...