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Permanent Molds, made of cast iron are used for two major purposes. First, for products in continual production that must meet consistent tolerance requirements, and still have a competitive unit cost. Secondly, for short run products with critical tolerances.

Sand Casting is cheaper to run than permanent mold. These patterns are less costly than permanent mold, but will wear out long before a cast iron permanent mold pattern will. We run a 16 x 20 flask size automatic sand molding machine. Automatic molding is more cost effective and has a faster turn around time than air-set or manual molding.

Air-Set Sand Casting is the happy medium between Permanent Molding and conventional Sand Casting. Slightly more expensive than regular sand casting and less costly than Permanent Mold tooling, Air-Set molds are perfect for limited run castings, that have complex cavity or special quality requirements.

Heat Treating is used to make castings harder, stronger and more machinable. Furnace heat is thermostatically controlled and monitored.

Continual inspections performed throughout the production sequence account for Ace’s reputation as a quality foundry. Every item produced at Ace is inspected first by the operator at the production station, then in our clean up department and if secondary services are required, by our machine shop and then a final inspection in our shipping department. Every effort is made to ship only castings that have passed our critical quality control inspections.

Ace Foundry has sufficient furnace capacity for large or small production items. We run only quality ingots of 319, 356, A356, 713, and 535 aluminum alloys. We never use scrap aluminum.