Investment casting technology, soluble glass technology and process.
Investment casting we called here is American style silicon gel process(with green wax and better sand) with very good smooth surface, tight tolerance, suitable for small part making widely used for stainless steel. It's different with Russian style investment casting actually called soluble glass process(with white wax and rough sand)with relative rough surface, bigger tolerance, suitable for large part making more than 1.00KGS especially for carbon steel, alloy steel, sometimes also for ductile iron and grey iron..
Investment casting, also called lost-wax casting, is one of the oldest known metal-forming techniques.[1] From 5,000 years ago, when beeswax formed the pattern, to today's high-technology waxes, refractory materials and specialist alloys, the castings allow the production of components with accuracy, repeatability, versatility and integrity in a variety of metals and high-performance alloys. Lost foam casting is a modern form of investment casting that eliminates certain steps in the process. The process is generally used for small castings, but has produced complete aircraft door frames, steel castings of up to 300 kg and aluminium castings of up to 30 kg. It is generally more expensive per unit than die casting or sand casting but with lower equipment cost. It can produce complicated shapes that would be difficult or impossible with die casting, yet like that process, it requires little surface finishing and only minor machining.
