Iron families
Gray iron, ductile iron and ADI components.
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Cast Iron
ADI casting and machining for cast-iron parts across independent partners.
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Overview
We supply gray iron, ductile iron and austempered ductile iron (ADI) components for equipment bases, housings, bearing supports and other industrial parts. Material and casting route are selected around the part’s load, wear, vibration and service conditions. Our partners can coordinate iron casting, including automatic or shell molding, then add machining for specified bores, faces and mounting features. ADI combines ductile-iron casting with heat treatment, while gray and ductile grades serve different design needs. AMES connects cast iron to both Casting and Machining so material, condition and finishing are considered together.
Supply options
Molding routes
Automatic or shell molding routes for suitable designs.
Machining
Machining for cast-iron bores, faces and mounting interfaces.
Typical parts
Typical fit includes equipment bases, housings and bearing supports.
Manufacturing route
An iron-casting route may combine molding, ADI heat treatment and machining of specified interfaces.
Automatic molding
Mechanized equipment prepares sand molds in a production sequence for iron castings.
Shell molding
Resin-bonded sand forms a thin shell on a heated pattern; shell halves are joined to make the mold.
Austempering
A heat treatment gives ductile iron the ADI structure and property set.
CNC machining
Machining centers finish specified faces and bores on iron castings.
Materials
Iron families differ in graphite structure and treatment, so the specified grade should match the part’s functional requirements.
Austempered ductile iron (ADI)
Heat treatment develops a strength-and-toughness balance for parts designed around ADI properties.
Ductile iron
Its strength and elongation balance can suit load-bearing cast components; grade determines the properties.
Gray iron
Often used for machine bases and housings where vibration damping and machinability are useful.
ADI is listed for AMES-CAST-02; gray and ductile iron also appear in the broader network catalog. Grade and route are matched to the part.
Factories
Employee and output figures describe each independent partner profile overall.
INDEPENDENT PARTNER / 01
AMES-CAST-02
Iron casting
Iron-casting partner with automatic and shell molding, machining centers and dimensional inspection.
Employees460
Annual output44,000 metric tons
Operations
- Automatic molding
- Shell molding
- CNC and robotic machining
Equipment
- Machining centers
Inspection
- CMM
- Spectrometry
- Magnetic-particle testing
INDEPENDENT PARTNER / 02
AMES-MACH-01
CNC machining
CNC-machining partner with vertical and horizontal machining centers and CMM inspection.
Employees50
Annual output10,000 metric tons
Operations
- Machining with vertical and horizontal machining centers
Equipment
- Vertical machining centers
- Horizontal machining centers
Inspection
- CMM
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