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Metal Casting Companies Offer Many Casting Processes
Imagine this scenario. You need groceries, so you decide to head to the grocery store. You’ve got a list of 20 or so items that you need for home. You pull into the parking lot and enter the store only to find that the store offers only one product: evaporated milk. At first you think it’s just an over sized display or a special, but as you walk the aisles, you realize that there is nothing to buy except row upon row of evaporated milk. Needless to say, this store wouldn’t be of much use to
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Metal casting companies often offer their customers more than one kind of casting process in order to make the parts they need. Different casting processes can be used to make different kinds of products, and different methods suit different order sizes better than others. The die casting process, for example, is an exceptional method for creating custom products in large quantities. The casting die can be used as many times as necessary or until it becomes damaged or otherwise unusable. The investment casting process is useful for the creation of complex parts in small quantities, and the sand casting process is useful because of its low tooling costs. Few metal casting companies offer only one of these casting processes to their customers because a range of capabilities is necessary to meet the range of customer needs. For that reason, many metal casting companies offer die casting, investment casting, sand casting and other metal forming processes in order to meet the varied needs of their customers.