Micro Metalsmiths continues to develop its process so as to meet ever more exacting market challenges.
If you have an aspect not covered by this guide, please contact our Liaison Engineers who can up-date you on our latest capability and assist in the design of your components.
For over thirty years Micro Metalsmiths has refined its techniques for excellence in the production of copper and aluminium alloy investment castings.
Micro Metalsmiths has combined its impressive investment casting technology with best practice CNC machining so allowing many of the constraints placed on engineering design to be overcome. This is all carried out within a BSI accredited ISO 9001 Quality System.
Why use the MM casting process:
- Reduce overall costs by Designing for Manufacture: simplify an assembly by combining a number of parts: eliminate joining processes: reduce the part count whilst improving the integrity of the finished product.
- Reduce time to market through use of Rapid Prototyping technology and obtain casting, machining, assembly and packaging from one source. Finished metal parts are deliverable from concept in under four weeks.
- Design flexibility, with quick modifications to tooling that costs 90% less than for a pressure die casting, whilst maintaining economic batch quantities of up to 500,000 parts per annum.
- High quality finish, detail and specification.
What the MM casting process can deliver:
- Thin walls as fine as 0.2 mm (0.008"), typically 1-3 mm (0.04" - 0.12").
- Light weight components, weighing as little as 1g (0.04 oz.) can be produced using techniques to minimise material usage whilst retaining component integrity.
- Maximum size of 190 mm x 160 mm x 160 mm (8" x 6" x 6"). A length of 250 mm (10") is possible providing no other dimension exceeds 100mm (4").
- Complex detail on internal and external features.
- Superfine surfaces with 0.8 micrometres (32 micro inches) being the "as cast" finish.
- Zero draft angle
