Nickel Alloys · Product form
Nickel Alloys Castings
Who pours castings in this alloy, and can they hold my geometry and pour weight?
What it is
Parts produced by pouring molten metal into a mold. For reactive metals this requires vacuum or inert atmosphere melting and specialized mold systems, which is why the qualified supplier list is short.
- Typical dimensions
- Grams to several hundred pounds; envelope limited by furnace and mold capacity.
- Also known as
- cast parts, investment castings, precision castings, cast components
Suppliers
Grouped by what they actually are. A mill and a distributor answer different needs.
Mills and producers 4
Companies that manufacture this form. Mill direct means longer lead times and mill minimums, with full melt traceability.
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Beehive Industries VerifiedAS9100
Investment castings produced from printed patterns, which removes hard tooling from the critical path.
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Howmet Aerospace Reported
Superalloy investment castings for aerospace and industrial gas turbine.
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PCC Structurals Verified
Superalloy investment casting for jet engines and industrial gas turbines.
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Stainless Foundry & Engineering Reported
Nickel alloy castings; confirm which grades.
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Production methods
The same form, purchased as tolling on your own material.
Investment Casting 3
Building a ceramic shell around a wax pattern, melting the wax out and pouring metal into the resulting cavity. For reactive metals the pour is done under vacuum or inert atmosphere against specially formulated shells.
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Beehive Industries VerifiedAS9100
Additively enabled investment casting: patterns printed in wax, PMMA, SLA or ceramic rather than tooled. The company states an entirely US-based supply chain for casting.
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Howmet Aerospace Reportedsource
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PCC Structurals Verifiedsource