The Foundry

Our Foundry

From inbound ingots, sand cores to melting, pouring and dressing; every stage of the production process is controlled, enabling us to delivering consistently high quality products.

Capacity

• India is one of the largest resources in the world.
• At SMI we pride ourselves on our supplier development and management so even if we don’t have the capacity or process today to produce your parts ourselves; you can have confidence that the product you receive will surpass your expectations.

Production Equipment

• 1 x 300KG Diesel fired tilting melting furnace
• 1 x 200KG Diesel fired tilting melting furnace
• 2 x 300KG Electric holding furnace
• 2 x 200KG Electric holding furnace
• 2 x 600mm x 600mm  Automated Tilting GDC
• 1 x 600mm x 600mm Automated Vertical GDC
• 2 x 700mm x 700mm Horizontal GDC
• 1 x 500mm x 500mm Horizontal GDC
• 1 x 500mm x 400mm Horizontal GDC

Further investment over next 12 months:

• 1x De-coring machine
• 1 x 700mm x700mm Automated Tilting GDC 
• 1 x 500mm x 500mm Automated Tilting GDC 
• 3Tn Crane 
• 2Tn Forklift truck 
• Die Storage racking

Process control will be an important factor in our success

Inspection Equipment

• Vacuum Tester
• Density Index
• Spectrometer
• Sand core grain grader
• Sand core tensile tester
• Sand core moisture measuring equipment

Upcoming Quality improvement investment

• Core baking oven
• Microstructure analysis equipment 
• Metal tensile tester