Examples of Cast Aluminum Parts for Music. Aluminum because of its versatility and superb quality is easily incorporated into different kinds of equipment. It is used in heavy industries and even rocket science. It has been used in almost every …
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Die Casting Methods and Applications
Die Casting Methods and Applications. To produce die casting for specific applications, the following variations on the basic process can be used. “Squeeze casting” is a method that yields high quality, dense, and heat treatable components. In this method, molten alloy is cast without turbulence and gas entrapment at high pressure. Another procedure is the “semi-solid molding”. Semi-solid metal billets are cast to give dense, heat-treatable castings with low porosity.
Sophisticated methods to automate the die casting process are used by modern die casters. These methods provide continuous quality control. Automated systems are used to lubricate dies or die casting tools and die casting molds. These systems are also used to ladle metal into cold chamber machines, and integrate other functions like quenching and trimming castings.
Microprocessors obtain metal velocity. They shot rod position and hydraulic pressure and other data. These data are used to adjust die casting machine process. This is to assure consistent castings shot after shot. These process control systems also collect machine performance data. These data are for statistical analysis in quality control.
One of the fastest and most cost-effective methods for producing a wide range of components is die-casting. To be able to maximize benefits from their process, it is important for the designers to coordinate with the die caster during the early part of product design and development. This way, issues affecting die cast tooling and production are resolved, while identifying trade-offs affecting overall costs.
For more information on die casting designs, there are a lot of websites in the internet that may help get insights and details. You may also find online various die casting companies that may help you with your die casting requirements.
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Die Castings Fast and Easy
Consumer Parts Die Castings – Fast and Easy. Die casting has proven to be a very efficient and effective process in creating different kinds of parts made from different kinds of metals and alloys. A prominent metal used in this die casting process is aluminum. This metal is often used in Consumer Parts Die Castings as more and more industries see the value of using aluminum. Other metals used are zinc and copper. Sometimes, even non metal materials are used such as rubber, plasters, resin and concrete. Whatever the purpose may be, Consumer Parts Die Castings is essential to several markets in industries around the nation, and all over the globe for that matter.
To start the process of die casting, the metal or material is first melted into liquid. This is so that the material can easily be poured into the molds which have been pre-made. The molds will give the metal its new shape and size. After the liquefied metal is injected into the mold, it will be allowed to cool. Once the mold has significantly cooled down, the material inside will then turn back to its original solid form, it will then be opened and a few finishing touches is all that is required to finish the product.
Consumer Parts Die Castings allow for consistency in the results of the product. It is a fast, easy, reliable and cheap process to undertake in making bulk orders of parts and other products which is why manufacturers all over the world prefer to use this method compared to other processes.
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Part that Aluminum Diecasting Plays
The Part that Aluminum Plays. Aluminum parts types are distinctive because this particular metal lends to its die cast parts the properties of being lightweight and yet tough, with high electric as well as thermal conductivity, high reflectivity when polished to a sheen, corrosion resistance, non combustibility, formability, and capability to be recycled.
Due to the intrinsic properties of this metal, aluminum parts types are a favorite in the aircraft construction business, in the automotive manufacturing business, and in the bicycle manufacturing business– this due to its strength and light weight. Aluminum is also made into large electrical conductors and cables, and computer manufacturers are now using aluminum parts in the casing of their products– this again is due to another one of its properties, that of electric and thermal conductivity. Other aluminum parts types are found in various products such as cooking utensils, food and drink packaging, extrusions such as window frames and door frames, and mirror coatings for telescopes as well as the ordinary looking-glass.
Aluminum is a metal most abundant on earth. Although this is so, it is popular as a recyclable product. Visit any recycling plant and you are sure to come across some aluminum parts types. These might be aluminum cans from soda drinks, bits and parts other scraps. Some might be shredded, re-melted, shaped into blocks, and whatnot. All the aluminum scrap metal is easily recycled simply by re-melting them and pouring the molten metal once again into a mold. Then the aluminum die casting process can begin again.
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Expanded use of Magnesium Diecasting
“There are three ways to reduce fuel consumption,” says Morales. “We can reduce or eliminate the use of gasoline by developing hybrid cars and fuel cell powered vehicles. We can make our direct combustion engines more efficient. Or, we can reduce the weight of the vehicle to use less gas.” That’s why a special ASM International symposium at the Materials Science & Technology Conference will be held in Pittsburgh, Oct. 25–29, to discuss how lightweight materials can provide effective solutions while maintaining vehicle strength and integrity.
Still, expanded use of magnesium die casting has proven difficult because of the cost of the metal, which has been 2.2-times higher than aluminum, its chief competitor, for the past three years. Also, a decline in imports from Russia and Canada, two of the country’s leading ingot import sources, has caused a supply shortage on the spot market for more than a year.
And, in recent months, China has become the world’s largest supplier of magnesium ingot and has been keeping world prices elevated. Meanwhile, softness in demand from the North American auto and machinery industries—coupled with high magnesium prices—has closed or bankrupted several magnesium die-casting companies. That’s why China—especially from plants in Shanxi Province—has become a major world supplier of magnesium die castings.
U.S. magnesium prices peaked cyclically at $3.65 in July 2008 but have since slipped to $2.29 in July 2009. Since magnesium isn’t traded on commodity exchanges, supply-and-demand fundamentals usually set price trends, except when such outside influences as trade restrictions or punitive tariffs artificially inflate sales costs. Lately, it’s been Beijing’s restrictions on raw material exports. The U.S. and the European Union have filed a World Trade Organization complaint that China is violating Article XI of the 1947 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade—the founding document of what is now the World Trade Organization—as well as the terms of China’s own membership agreement with the WTO.
What’s happening is that China’s supplies of magnesium are so large that Beijing’s recent export restrictions have driven up the costs on world markets while holding them down domestically. The result is a subsidy of sorts for Chinese manufacturers, letting them charge less for finished die-cast goods than foreign firms pay for the raw material.
Also, with magnesium diecasting demand down worldwide, Chinese producers are delaying negotiations on 2010 ingot supply contracts with traders until winter this year—rather than the usual late summer or early fall. Market sources say most consumers are trying to determine how much raw material they will need next year—and that may take some time to crystallize.
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Aluminium Long-Term Outlook Q2 Update
Aluminium Long-Term Outlook Q2 Update. According to Brooke Hunt, industrial production growth is set to average 3.1% p.a. over the period 2009 to 2020, up slightly from 2.7% p.a. for the period 2000 to 2008. China is expected to lead growth with IP anticipated to increase 10.1% in 2009 – 2020.
The economic recession which followed the failure of some western financial institutions and banks ten months ago was initially expected to have only a small effect on Chinese growth. However, the resultant collapse in worldwide demand and subsequent collapse in requirement for Chinese exported products has had a significant effect on the economy of China. The most recent trade data suggests that the fall in demand for Chinese goods may be bottoming out but the trends indicated by these figures do not carry across to the Chinese aluminium market. We expect aluminium demand to fall by 1% in 2009 to 12.7Mt. This contrasts with compound average annual growth of 17.9% p.a. seen over the first eight years of this decade.
As a large section of the global economy slid into recession in late 2008 and into 2009 global aluminium demand has been destroyed, particularly in mature economies and has led to a forecast surplus in 2009 of 2.5Mt. Although we are forecasting a 6% drop in smelter production in 2009, a greater decline of 8.3% is forecast for demand. Stocks are therefore expected to continue to rise in 2009 reaching 102 days of consumption. For the market to be balanced with the current consumption forecast production would need to fall by 12% in 2009. Brook Hunt is forecasting that LME cash prices will decrease from the 2008 average of $2571/t, to $1445/t in 2009. We have allowed for 70kt, 4.9Mt and 8.3Mt of curtailments in 2009, 2010 and 2011 respectively as prices cut into the cost curve. The significant volume of curtailed capacity will act as a cap on prices over the period 2012-2020.
Our analysis of long-run aluminium incentive prices that will provide sufficient incentive (15% IRR) to justify the expansion of capacity to meet incremental demand growth indicates that a price of ~$1928/t ($2009) is required.
Our base case supply forecast is seen as more than adequate to meet projected demand of 57Mt in 2020, equivalent to 3.5% per annum growth. The base case supply forecast can meet projected demand growth of 4.2% per annum, while the combination of Base case and projects in our highly probable category can meet demand growth of 5% per annum through 2020.
SGA production is estimated at 72.4Mt in 2009, down 10.4% y-o-y and is forecast to grow at 4% per annum to 88Mt in 2014 when capacity utilization is projected at 92%. Consequently, we forecast modest spot price appreciation through 2014 from current levels of $210/t to average $270/t or 14.5% of the LME aluminium cash price. Furthermore, there is little or no risk of being capacity constrained through 2020.
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