- Speed up your production process up to 70%.
- Ensure the mechanical characteristics of your parts.
Coldmold technology allows to dominate the cooling process of large cast components (>300 kg.), providing significant logistical benefits and cost savings, ensuring or optimizing the quality of the parts.
By incorporating cooling circuits designed ad-hoc in the moulds, Coldmold also allows a controlled heat extraction, favoring the triggering of metallurgical phases that directly affect the mechanical properties of the components.
The Coldmold technology, developed by AZTERLAN, is protected by patent (EP3539687A1).
- It shortens the solidification, demoulding and delivery process between 15%-70%, depending on the size and characteristics of the piece.
- Accelerates the demoulding process with all the safety guarantees.
- Optimizes the reuse cycles of reusable elements such as sands, molding boxes or necks.
- It reduces the spaces dedicated to storage during the cooling process as well as other associated operations.
- Avoid defects associated with solidification, such as graphite degeneration, segregation or sink marks.
- Get a refinement of the microstructure of the alloys.
- Reduces the risk of breakage due to residual stresses.
A strategic placement of cooling channels in the mold with respect to critical areas of the components allows:
“The Foundry of the Future is that of connected processes that is able to take advantage of the knowledge generated inside the company at the same time that it keeps learning from its manufacturing and market experience.
Along with a deep knowledge of metallurgy, Industry 4.0 technologies, advanced data management systems and machine learning technologies have landed in this industry to transform the way castings are conceived”.
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