A family of high-performance ceramic media products that can significantly improve your castings
Achieve high-precision industrial metal casting and improved economic performance while eliminating OSHA PEL concerns with our versatile line of ACCUCAST ceramic casting media.
Client Success with Mercury Marine
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Eliminate OSHA PEL concern
Unlike silica sand, CARBO ceramic casting media produces no respirable silica dust, so it easily complies with OSHA (1926.1153) silica dust permissible exposure limits (PEL). Replacing silica sand with CARBO ceramic casting media is the most cost-effective way for a foundry to meet OSHA requirements for silica dust exposure. Simply upgrading to CARBO ceramic media avoids the considerable costs and complications of installing expensive equipment that would be necessary to meet the PEL requirements. CARBO ceramic media is the optimum solution for OSHA silica PEL compliance in a wide variety of applications.
Improved casting quality
The technology that creates CARBO casting media produces significantly greater particle strength, durability, smoothness, consistency and thermal stability than sand. This results in superior casting quality, increased dimensional accuracy and enhanced casting capabilities. Uniform particle size and shape maximizes mold porosity and enhances permeability.
Reduce total casting costs
The engineered characteristics of CARBO ceramic media reduce casting costs, especially by minimizing casting defects and reducing media consumption. The increased thermal stability and dimensional precision of CARBO ceramic media produce castings of superior quality, thus minimizing the costs of finishing, cleaning and scrap.
Client Successes
Cleaning cost reduced while achieving high casting precision
Replacing olivine sand with ACCUCAST ceramic casting media reduces cleaning costs and eliminates veining defects.
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Production rate increase avoids capital investment for a new line addition
ACCUCAST ceramic casting media increases production and reduces defects compared to silica sand in lost foam process.
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Casting defects eliminated, saving a billion-dollar casting project
Switching to ACCUCAST ceramic casting media from olivine sand achieved necessary dimensional tolerances for aluminum marine foundry project.
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Cast media costs reduced by 55% per cubic foot and cleaning time lowered by 75%
Switch to ACCUCAST ceramic casting media from zircon sand improves the quality of specialty parts while reducing media and finishing costs for industrial foundry.
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With over 40 years of manufacturing experience that includes state-of-the-art facilities and process expertise, we ensure the highest quality products are manufactured to deliver value to our customers.