Melting Equipment
Iron Furnace - Can be used to melt up to 1400 pounds of virgin pig iron and virgin scrap steel.  Every heat of metal is tested with our in-house spectrometer to ensure the correct chemistry is obtained.
Aluminum Furnace - Southern Cast Products is proud to produce superior quality aluminum with greatly reduced porosity.  A Unithem Furnace Corporation unit is used in the melting of our aluminum products.  An upgraded degassing unit was recently purchased, increasing the quality of our aluminum castings.

 

Iron Processes
Molding - A no-bake sand is used in our molds, allowing for high dimensional accuracy, good hot strength, and high resistance to mold-related defects.  This also allows for the use of thinner sections in our castings.
Cores - Our use of no-bake sand also allows for the quick production of cores without the use of curing ovens.  The Palmer CoreShooter allows for Core Blowing and Bench Cores.
Heat Treatment - Residual stress in iron is relieved and the parts are annealed through the use of three separate box furnaces. We also normalize steel.
Finishing - Once the heat treatment is done, the part is peened using a Wheelabrator Corporation Sand Blaster with a 72" swing table, or one of the two tumble blast machines.

Aluminum Processing
Degassing Rotoflux Unit - Dry nitrogen is used to flush dissolved hydrogen back into the atmosphere while flux is added to the melt, greatly reducing porosity in our aluminum castings.  Cutting edge technology is used to produce very high quality aluminum castings.
Heat Treatment - Our aluminum products are heat treated to a T6 condition (solution heat-treated and artificially aged).  This gives high quality properties to the aluminum castings.