ISO 9001:2015Sand Casting
IQ-Enterprises (IQE) is a premium manufacturing firm, located in Indianapolis, Indiana, and in China. Established in 2004, IQE supplies high quality and low cost iron sand casting. We make ductile iron casting, gray iron casting and malleable iron casting. The casting processes include green sand casting, shell casting, and resin coated sand casting. Castings are handled with great care to meet required dimensions, surface finish, etc. IQE also offers engineering services and secondary operations, such as: machining, assembly, plating, e-coating, etc. We also provide steel casting.
Communication, Quality, On-Time Delivery: In the US, we handle your project from beginning to end. We communicate design ideas, and convert all standards via bilingual Engineers to help work through all other challenges to make sure we exceed your quality, service and financial goals. Quality, on-time delivery and customer satisfaction is the goal of our service. IQE’s quality management team in China checks the product quality at each stage in the production process to make sure the product meets the specifications before shipping. Based on request, we deliver your product to your dock or may stock your product in North America. ISO 9001-2000 certified.
Sand Casting Samples
Iron sand casting foundry equipment list
| Equipment Name | Equipment Type | Equipment Origin | Equipment Q’ty | Capacity Parameter |
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| Melting Equipment | ||||
| Cupola | 5T | Korea | 1 set | 5T/h automatic , hot wind T=1500 C° |
| 3T | China | 1 set | 3T/h normal hot wind T=1500 C° | |
| Electrical Holding Furnace | 3T | Korea | 1 Set | 400KW 3T/h |
| Sand Treatment Equipment | ||||
| Sand mixing line | Japan/Korea | 3 sets | 1500~3500kgs/time | |
| Molding Line | ||||
| PC Semi Automatic molding line | Korea | 23 sets | 300x380x100/100mm(sand box inner dimension) 300 mold/h/set | |
| RMB-2016 Automatic molding line | Japan | 2 sets | 410x510x150/150mm(sand box inner dimension) 120 mold/h | |
| KW368 Automatic molding line | Germany | 1 set | 410x570x130/110mm(sand box inner dimension) 240mold/h | |
| 148C molding line | China | 2 sets | 800x600x250mm(sand box inner dimension) 60 mold/h | |
| Core Making Equipment | ||||
| Automatic sand mixing for core making | Korea | 1 set | 4T/h | |
| Shell core machine | Korea | 19 sets | 1.4-2 minutes/time | |
| Surface treatment Line | ||||
| Shot blast | Korea | 5 sets | 1-1.5T/20 minutes | |
| Heat Treatment Line | ||||
| Continuous tunnel type heat treatment line | Korea | 2 sets | 26000x2240x1800mm 1300kgs/h | |
| Quality Assurance Instrument | ||||
| Spectrometer | ARL3460 | Swiss | 1 set | Quick analysis of chemical content for raw material |
| CMM from Brown & Sharp | U.S.A | 1 set | Dimensional check for tooling and finished parts | |
| Metallographic microscope for microstructure | Japan | 1 set | Could print out the photo of metallographic microstructure of raw material | |
Commonly used cast iron and steel
Cast gray iron: more info |
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| China GB/T 9439-1988: | HT100 | HT150 | HT200 | HT250 | HT300 | HT350 |
| ASTM A159-82: | G1800 | G2500 | G3000 | G3500 | G4000 | |
| UNS: | F10004 | F10005 | F10009 | F10007 | F10008 | |
| ASTM A48-00: | No. 20 | No. 25 | No. 30 | No. 35 No. 40 | No. 45 | No. 50 |
Cast ductile iron: more info |
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| China GB/T1348-1988: | QT400-18 | QT400-15 | QT450-10 | QT500-7 | QT600-3 |
| ASTM A536-99: | 60-40-18 | 65-45-12 | 80-55-06 | ～80-55-06 ～100-70-03 | |
| UNS: | F32800 | F33100 | F33800 | F33800 F34800 | |
Cast malleable iron: more info |
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| China GB/T9440-1988: | KTH300-06 | KTH330-08 | KTH350-10 | KTH370-12 | |
| ASTM A47: | 32510 | 35018 | |||
Cast steel: more info |
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| China, GB: | 20 | 45 | 65Mn | 20Cr | 40Cr | 35CrMo | 42CrMo | 40CrNiMo | GCr15 |
| ASTM: | 1020 | 1045 | 1566 | 5120 | 5140 | 4135 | 4140 | 8620 | 5210 |
| AISI/UNS: | G10200 | G10450 | G51200 | G51400 | G41350 | G41400 | G86200 | G52100 | |
| SAE: | 1020 | 1045 | 1566(1066) | 5120 | 5140 | 4135 | 4140 | 8620 | 5210 |
Sand casting technical data and secondary operations
| Iron sand casting tolerances | Green sand casting: 0.125 – 0.0625 / ft. Shell-mold casting: 0.094 – 0.031 / ft. |
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| Part weight range | 0.22 lbs to 220 lbs |
| Sand casting mold draft | 1 – 3 degrees |
| Sand casting pattern material | Using wood or metal. |
| Sand casting tooling lifetime | Wood mold: 300-400 cycles (or less for large part) Metal mold: a few 100K |
| Deburring | belt sanding, grinding machines, brush deburring, filing, sand blast, tumbling, vibration deburring, etc. |
| Sand casting surface roughness (RMS, µin) | Green sand casting surface roughness: 250-300; Shell casting surface roughness: 150-200 |
| Normal lead time | Tooling and sample: 2 weeks – 3 weeks. Complicated parts take longer. |
| Secondary operations |
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Engineering assistance
- CAD model development from your sample;
- Stress analysis, which helps in knowing whether the design is adequate and optimized, and what changes are needed before the physical part is made;
- Some Mechanical and Chemical Lab tests for your prototype part.