Lost-wax precision casting also has its own features and advantages that are different from traditional sand casting, forging, and mechanical processing, and is suitable for any material such as cast iron, cast steel, alloy steel, stainless steel, tool steel, aluminum alloy, magnesium alloy, titanium Alloys, copper alloys, beryllium copper alloys, superalloys, cobalt-based and nickel-based heat-resistant alloys, etc. Therefore, lost-wax castings have a wide range of applications and are flexible in mass production, including: gas turbines, steam turbines, aircraft parts, internal combustion engines, vehicle parts, boats & marine parts, medical equipment, golf heads, food machinery, printing machinery, paper machinery, compressors, valves, pumps, measuring instruments, sewing machines, weapons, business machines and other machine parts, etc.

C&S had ever made the maximum casting was 300mm for each length, width and height, and the easy-to-make length is less than 300mm. The maximum weight of castings is about 50 kilograms. Castings are generally made under 10 kilograms, and castings over 30 kilograms are rare.

Due to the costs and labor with the molds, investment castings generally have higher costs than forged parts or sand casting and permanent mold casting methods. However, they make up for the higher cost through the reduction of machining achieved through as-cast near-net-shape tolerances.

Almost most of ferrous and nonferrous metal and alloys could be cast by investment casting process. But, at our lost wax casting foundry, we mainly cast the carbon steel, alloy steel, stainless steel and super duplex stainless steel.

The investment casting is also called precision casting because it has much better surface and higher accuracy than any other casting process, there will be less or even no need to make the machining processes. A certain extent, the investment casting could replace the rough machining process.

The investment casting gets its name because the patterns ( wax replicas) is invested with the surrounded refractory materials during casting process. The “invested” here means being surrounded. The wax replicas should be invested (surrounded) by the refractory materials to withstand the high temperature of the flowing molten metals during casting.