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Sustainable Casting -- Moulage Efficace

Sustainable Casting

CANMET-MTL's Sustainable Casting Program is committed to increasing the competitiveness of Canada's foundry industry - comprising some 340 small- to medium-sized enterprises - and to improving its environmental performance. Facilities include a wide range of melting and heat treatment furnaces, moulding machines, and testing equipment. In addition, CANMET-MTL can conduct on-site technical and energy audits, helping to fine tune such operations as melting, moulding and quality control while cutting costs through the reduction of energy requirements.

Filter Hamilton Porcelains Limited and CANMET-MTL have engaged in co-operative research on molten metal filtration since the early 1990s. The technical data generated at CANMET-MTL have played a major role in the company's marketing effort, allowing it to more than double sales of its Flow-Rite foundry filters in just four years. The filters eliminate dross and reduce inclusion levels in castings of ductile iron, copper, aluminum and steel. Filtration improves product quality and reduces scrap rates.

The overall program objectives are to:

  • provide technology to support the Canadian foundry industry;
  • reduce the environmental impact of foundry operations;
  • identify and develop more efficient and effective aluminum casting procedures for the automotive industry.

CANMET-MTL provides expertise in the following areas:

  • permanent mould casting
  • gating and risering design
  • clean steel technology
  • evaporative pattern casting
  • vacuum pouring
  • ductile iron technology
  • melting energy and technical audits in foundries
  • molten metal filtration
  • sand control and recycling

We offer our clients access to new casting technology and products to help them meet environmental and health requirements. We can improve productivity and competitiveness; make suggestions for reducing energy costs and disposal costs through waste reduction and recycling; provide on-site technical and energy audits; and assist with standards, technical training, production know-how, and production control procedures.

For further information contact:

Mahi Sahoo
Telephone: (613) 992-5475
Fax: (613) 992-8735
E-mail: msahoo@nrcan.gc.ca

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Last Updated: 2005-10-20
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