We offer the latest product and technical innovations for improved metallurgical process control.

We help customers to:

  • Select the best products
  • Optimise addition rates
  • Invest in proven equipment
  • Embrace new technology
  • Improve skills

And achieve success through:

  • Lower fume emissions
  • Reduced scrap
  • Eliminating casting defects
  • Increased casting integrity
  • Improved surface finish
  • Optimising mechanical properties
  • Producing advanced casting grades

Consultancy

We share a wealth of experience in all phases of the foundry process. Our consultancy service includes:

We can advise on every stage of the casting process including:

  • Selection of charge materials
  • Alloy additions
  • Pre and post inoculation
  • Grain refinement
  • Cored wire treatment
  • Nodularisation
  • Modification
  • Metal filtration
  • Foundry technology, equipment, automation, measurement, simulation software and control analysis
  • Quality assurance

First we diagnose the casting defect before identifying its causes and the appropriate solution. Common defects include:

  • Shrinkage and porosity
  • Matrix and mechanical properties
  • Graphite shape, nodule count and optimal graphitisation
  • Inclusions, gas and pinhole defects

We also offer comprehensive laboratory services through our UKAS approved partner.

Flexible and cost effective, remote access is an efficient and increasingly popular way of working with live foundry data to provide solutions fast and on demand.

Foundry Equipment

We partner with leading manufacturers to offer a range of proven metal treatment equipment that meets the demands of modern casting production:

Portable ATAS® (Adaptive Thermal Analysis System) units are available for foundries to evaluate new products and to improve metallurgical process control. Our service includes: –

Day Trials – Asmet’s experienced metallurgists can visit your foundry for the day to conduct product and process trials using our portable ATAS® units.

Extended Foundry Trials – Asmet provides full on site set up of the portable ATAS® system and ongoing technical support. This gives the individual users and foundry management team the opportunity to assess the ATAS® system before committing to a full installation.

Full ATAS® System Installation – For foundries who wish to invest long term, Asmet provide support to install a full ATAS® system, with extra back up and licensing provided by our technical partner, NovaCast Systems.

  • Enables controlled metered addition of alloy in wire form.
  • Improves environmental control and working conditions by reducing air pollution levels.
  • Can be integrated into automated systems to reduce manpower and improve process control.
  • Micro alloy additions allow a change of grade or trimming to your base material without making major alterations (changing) to the main bath of metal.
  • Maximises yields and reduces pour down.

Asmet also offer feeder equipment for a range of metal treatments including:

  • Nodularisation
  • Inoculation
  • Deoxidisation
  • Micro alloying

Technical Partners

We share a common vision with our technical partners to offer industry leading technology solutions.

  • Improves safety by reliable monitoring of refractory condition to prevent molten metal breakouts and furnace damage.
  • Optimises operating costs by reducing maintenance costs and production losses.
  • Improves furnace up-time due to risk management of refractory lining.
  • Targeted melting process improvement by optimising the sinter heat.

  • Enables development of runner and feeder design before the production of pattern equipment.
  • Optimises the quality of a casting design.
  • Uses a new, advanced algorithm for improved simulation speeds and accuracy.

  • Uses thermal analysis to control and monitor the melt and treatment processes for grey and ductile iron.
  • Provides real time process data that can be used for statistical process control.
  • Calculate thermodynamic parameters.
  • Interprets data and estimates the risk of various casting defects.
  • Can be connected to various types of production equipment and integrated with NovaFlow&SolidCV software.
  • Portable units available for hire for extended trials to assess the ATAS® system before committing to a full installation. For more information, please refer to the equipment section.

  • An optional module extension of NovaFlow & SolidCV
  • Calculates the residual stresses during solidification and contraction

  • Complete 3D CAD functionality.
  • Core creation tools.
  • Gating design assistance.
  • Geometry repair facilities.
  • Works with NovaFlow & SolidCV casting process simulation system.
  • Can be used as a separate system for foundry methoding.

Training

Whether you are embracing new technologies, producing new advanced casting grades or simply need to fill a skills gap, we can tailor practical training workshops to suit your foundry and people.

Available on or off site for one-to-one or group sessions. A wide range of foundry practice and technology areas can be covered, including but not limited to:

  • Casting design, modelling and simulation.
  • Adaptive thermal analysis.
  • Software and equipment user training.
  • Alloy addition and metal treatment.
  • Casting defect analysis.

Don Tittensor
Prof MICME

If you have a technical question, contact Don for further support.

E: don@asmet.com

Testimonial

“On behalf of council of the Lancashire Branch of ICME, thank you for a superb technical seminar to the members. You should be congratulated on how you managed to explain the importance of combining thermal analysis with chemical composition, and the far reaching consequences of ignoring the combination.”

Richard Cairns
Branch Secretary of the Institute of Cast Metals Engineers (ICME)