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Benton Foundry, Inc. offers castings services in gray and ductile iron to meet a wide range of industrial requirements. The casting method used is sand casting. The casting process includes green sand, automatic, and matchplate molding. Casting features include complex castings, moderate volume, heat treatment, and painting for enhanced durability. Casting applications cover structural machine components, pumps, valves, agricultural machinery, compressors, railroad equipment, mining, reducers and drives, oil and gas, power generation, marine, construction equipment, fluid power systems, material handling equipment, hoists and winches, elevators and escalators, food processing machinery, general use components, and pressure containing parts.

Casting mold types include automatic molding and green sand. Materials include austempered ductile iron, ductile iron, gray iron, iron, nodular iron, ferrous metals, pearlitic grades, and ferritic grades. Casting weights range from 1 to 250 lb. Additional services provided are grinding, robotic grinding, shot blasting, heat treating, special packaging, painting, and machining. Production volumes range from 50 to 20,000 units and include prototype, low, moderate, and high volume runs.

Lead times range from 4 to 6 weeks. Industry focus includes agriculture, architecture, heavy truck, building and construction, defense, DOE, DOD, electrical, food processing, heavy equipment, HVAC, hydraulics, industrial, laundry equipment, machine tool, machinery, military, plumbing, specialty machinery, transportation, oil and gas equipment. Industry standards met include ASTM, ISO, RoHS compliance, and SAE. To know more about world-class castings services, contact us today.
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Technical Specs

Product Capabilities

N/A Castings Gray and Ductile Iron

Casting Method

N/A Sand Casting (Sand casting produces rough metal castings using a mold usually made from sand formed around a replica of the object, also called a pattern, to be cast and is removed once the sand has been compacted.)

Casting Process

N/A Automatic Green Sand Matchplate Molding

Casting Features

N/A Complex Castings Heat Treat Moderate Volume Paint

Casting Application

N/A Agricultural Castings Intended for General Use Compressors Construction Equipment Elevator and Escalator Fluid Power Food Processing Equipment Hoist and Winch Marine Material Handling Equipment Mining Oil and Gas Power Generation Pressure Containing Parts Pumps Railroad Reducers and Drives Structural Machine Components Valves

Casting Mold Type

N/A Automatic Molding Green Sand

Material (Metals)

N/A Austempered Ductile Iron Ductile Iron Ferritic Ferrous Gray Iron Iron Nodular Iron Pearlitic

Minimum Casting Weight

N/A 1 lb

Maximum Casting Weight

N/A 250 lb

Additional Services Provided

N/A Grinding Heat Treating Machining Painting Robotic Grinding Shot Blasting Special Packaging

Minimum Production Volume

N/A 50

Maximum Production Volume

N/A 20000

Production Volume

N/A High Volume Low Volume Moderate Volume Prototype

Maximum Lead Time

N/A 6 Weeks

Minimum Lead Time

N/A 4 Weeks

Certifications

N/A ISO 9001 Pressure Equipment Directive

Additional Information

Industry Focus

N/A Agricultural and Farming Architecture Building and Construction Construction Defense Industry Department of Defense (DOD) Department of Energy (DOE) Electrical Food and Beverage Food Processing Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Heavy Equipment Heavy Truck Hydraulics Industrial Laundry Equipment Machine Tool Machinery Manufacturing Material Handling and Processing Military Oil and Gas Equipment Packaging and Converting Plumbing Pulp and Paper Pulp Manufacturing Specialty Machinery Transportation Turf and Garden Vacuum and Compressor Water and Wastewater

Industry Standards

N/A ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) ISO (International Organization for Standardization) RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances (Compliant)) SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers)

File Formats

N/A AutoCAD (DWG, DWZ) DXF (Drawing Interchange Format, or Drawing Exchange Format) GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) IGES (Initial Graphics Exchange Specification, ANSI File Format) Inventor (IDW, IPT) IronCAD (ICD, ICS) JPG or JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) PDES (Product Data Exchange using STEP, Standard for the Exchange of Product Model Data. A standard format for exchanging data between advanced CAD and CAM programs.) PDF (Portable Document Format) Pro-E or Pro/Engineer (DRW, PRT, XPR) SolidWorks (SLDPRT, SLDDRW, SLDDRT) STEP (Standard for the Exchange of Product Model Data)