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Visipour[R] technology enhances casting quality and reduces costs.


USER--Lodge Manufacturing, South Pittsburg, TN, is a foundry A semiconductor manufacturer that makes chips for third parties. It may be a large chip maker that sells its excess manufacturing capacity or one that makes chips exclusively for other companies.  specializing in producing cast iron cookware Cast iron cookware is, as its name states, cookware made out of cast iron. Cast iron is non-toxic, has excellent heat retention and diffusion properties, and is easy to mold into a variety of shapes. These properties make cast iron a natural choice for cookware. .

OPERATION--The plant has coreless melting furnaces feeding two vertically parted molding lines producing skillets, dutch ovens, fajita fa·ji·ta  
n.
A dish consisting of strips of marinated meat, poultry, or vegetables that are grilled over an open fire and served in a tortilla, usually with spicy condiments. Often used in the plural.
 pans, charcoal charcoal, substance obtained by partial burning or carbonization (destructive distillation) of organic material. It is largely pure carbon. The entry of air during the carbonization process is controlled so that the organic material does not turn to ash, as in a  grills, and a variety of bakeware.

PROBLEMS--With manual pouring, it was difficult to control temperature and achieve pouring accuracy to produce high quality castings. The high production rate associated with the new vertical molding machines (Woodworking) A planing machine for making moldings
(Founding) A machine to assist in making molds for castings.

See also: Molding Molding
 required high speed automatic pouring. The high cost associated with remelting rejections was also a serious issue.

SOLUTION--Two 5 ton automatic pressure pour systems with Visipour[R] control supplying the iron for two vertically parted molding lines.

BENEFITS--The Visipour[R] automatic pouring system consistently provides a precise pouring profile at the correct metal temperature for the highest casting quality. It also eliminates quality-robbing under-pours and wasteful over-pours while significantly reducing labor costs.

INDUCTOTHERM CORP.

10 Indel Ave., Rancocas, NJ 08073

Tel: 1-800-257-9527 * Fax: 609-267-3537

E-mail: sales@inductotherm.com

Web site: www.inductothenn.com

Contact: Joe Belsh

Inductotherm Corp., based in Rancocas, New Jersey, is the world's leading manufacturer of induction induction, in electricity and magnetism
induction, in electricity and magnetism, common name for three distinct phenomena.

Electromagnetic induction
 melting systems offering complete melting, holding and pouring solutions for virtually all metals.
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Title Annotation:Technology in Action
Publication:Modern Casting
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Feb 1, 2004
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