Investment Castings
With more than 120 ferrous and nonferrous metals routinely cast at our investment casting pricipal, Hitchiner, designers are offered an extemely wide choice of alloys.
Additionally, investment castings offer the following benefits:
- Elimination of tooling setup: By offering near-net-shape configuration, fixturing costs are substantially reduced or eliminated.
- Reduction of production costs: Costly machining operations are reduced and often eliminated. No capital equipment investment is needed to produce parts in-house.
- Reduction of assembly operations: Several parts can be made as one casting, reducing handling, assembly and inspection costs.
- Reproduction of fine details: Splines, holes, bosses, lettering, serrations and even some threads can be cast.
Contact Stork Kelch to learn all the benefits of investment castings.
Hitchiner Manufacturing
Hitchiner is the premier supplier of complete-to-print, high-volume, complex thin-wall investment castings and fully-finished casting-based subassemblies and components to industry. Hitchiner produces castings in over 160 different alloys for a broad spectrum of global markets and customers that include the leaders in the automotive, aerospace, and other industries, such as: General Motors, DaimlerChrysler, BMW, Borg Warner, Siemens, B.F. Goodrich, Lockheed Martin, Textron, Pratt & Whitney, General Electric, Rolls Royce, and many more.