Aluminum, Zinc, Iron and Bronze Castings from 3D Sand Printed Molds THAT ARE AFFORDABLE, ACCURATE, REPEATABLE & COSMETIC
Alpha Foundry has a long history of innovation, exceptional quality, and trusted customer service. In fact, we’ve been pouring and casting metals for over 100 years. Our business has always been positioned to help customers at any level of their project, from initial start-up and accepting responsibility for a current project, to keeping your castings moving forward and filling in as an additional supplier. We are big enough to handle most needs, but small enough to narrow in and focus on your specific needs.
Today, we offer digital synergies from our ExOne™ 3D Sand Printing equipment. Where your designs and visions can be realized in quick turnaround, allowing you faster to market solutions. 3D Sand Printing helps reduce time and cost from traditional the traditional sand mold process. Moving your project from weeks and months, to just days. Contact us and let us help you build your next project.
From Prototypes to Production 3D Sand Printing Innovation is the way to go!
BRING YOUR DESIGNS TO ALPHA- WE’LL HELP YOU GET STARTED.
Few foundries today offer the high-tech approach to building sand molds for casting. With our ExOne™ S-Max 3D Sand Printing, your design, your vision and your dreams can come to fruition faster, better and more precise than ever before. Alpha Foundry now offers 3D Sand Printing and the ability to take digital files from start to production, and do this without compromise. In fact, in most cases 3D Sand Printing with the ExOne™ S-Max will produce a more precise mold, leaving no details untamed.
A Message to Foundries
If you are already in the foundry or casting business and familiar with 3D sand printing, you would benefit by working directly with Alpha Foundry. Our 3D sand printers have helped many foundries and pattern shops transform sandcasting by eliminating the need for hard tooling. The Alpha digital process can produce previously impossible shapes, consolidate complex cores to reduce assembly, or iterate design changes without the time or investment of traditional tooling. Alpha can help you move up production, reduce labor and save money.
Keep in mind, we are not just another company that is producing 3D sand molds, we are in the foundry industry and have been for well over 100 years. We know what it takes to produce a mold for metal castings that will work as expected when pouring aluminum, iron, steel, brass and bronze. In fact, we can do that for you too!
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HOW CAN ALPHA FOUNDRY HELP YOU?
Get faster delivery, design freedom, and cost savings with 3D-printed molds and cores. Receive complex castings quickly, sometimes even in a matter of days, rather than months waiting for pattern production. Alpha can take you from prototype to production all under one roof!
WHAT EQUIPMENT DOES ALPHA USE FOR 3D PRINTING?
Alpha Foundry’s in-house ExOne S-Max 3D Sand Printer advances mold and core production with high-precision, speed, and design integrity. Our advanced technology exceeds in producing highly intricate designs, undercuts, and internal passages without the issues of traditional tooling constraints.
WHAT KIND OF CASTINGS ARE AVAILABLE?
Time and accuracy. The ExOne™ 3D sand printing process is super-efficient, with most projects taking no more than a few hours to complete. This alone opens the door to more prototype and small batch projects. We cast aluminum, grey and ductile iron, and ZA12 alloys in both 3D sand for small quantities as well as production volumes with our Alpha Process shell sand molding process. We can even produce hybrid castings using 3D printed cores for complex internal geometry with Alpha Process production molds.
What are the benefits of 3D printing for sand casting with Alpha Foundry?
3D Sand Printing allows for real casting production immediately, without the need to wait on tooling/pattern development. It also allows for complex geometry, fewer cores with less variation due to core assembly, and general casting designs that would be nearly impossible with hard tooling and real-world pattern limitations.
How does Alpha Foundry make 3D Sand Printing competitive for production?
We call cleaning 3D sand prints “depowdering.” Depowdering can become an unnecessarily time-consuming, labor intensive, and costly manual activity that creates a bottleneck compared to the speed of the core printing process. The fastest, most efficient, and careful way to clean 3D printed sandcastings is with ShotShower™. ShotShower™ can not only reduce labor costs but increases quality and lowers scrap rates…and frees up employees for productive work elsewhere in your operations. See hotideasllc.com to learn more.