810 Front Street/PO Box 1049
Laurel, MS 39441
Ph. 601-428-0541
Fax 601-425-5617
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Foundry Division

Our Foundry Division is an important area of our service, providing ductile iron castings from 50 to 4,000 pounds, gray iron castings from 50 to 6000 pounds, and also chrome and nickel gray iron castings from 50 to 2000 pounds.


We specialize in bearing housings, valve bodies, pedestals, pipe fittings, machine bases, steer hubs, etc. Our capabilities include:

Molding

  • Two Furan No-Bake Sand mixers for large and medium sized molds with a mixing rate of 1,000 pounds per minute.
  • Two manual molding lines for medium size cope and drag interlocked dump box molding.
  • Two Floor molding areas for large molds. Includes a 20,000-pound Cope Turner and a 20,000-pound INTAC Roll Over Machine. Core Area for large cores.
  • One Automated Molding Loop for large interlocked cope and drag dump boxes. The loop employs:
  • One Kloster 14,000 pound Compaction Table.
  • 136 feet of 69" wide Powered Roller Conveyor with a 20,000 pound mold capacity.
  • B&P 15,000 pound Rollover and Draw set up for box sizes up to 76" long x 51" wide x 24" tall.
  • IMF Mold Manipulator with a maximum mold size of 70.8" x 55" x 25.5" and a capacity of 8,800 pounds.
  • Quiptec Mold Manipulator with a maximum clamp of 40", minimum clamp of 10", swing radius of 34" and a capacity of 2500 pounds.
  • Refcotec Flow coating System

Melting

  • Two 5,000-pound induction furnaces with a melt capacity of 25,000 pounds per shift for gray and ductile iron.
  • Two 2,000-pound induction furnaces with a melt capacity of 12,000 pounds per shift for gray, ductile, and alloyed gray iron.

Metallurgical Lab

Our Metallurgical lab offers facilities and procedures including:

  • Metallographic preparation equipment.
  • Metallurgical microscope for matrix structure evaluation of every-day-heats.
  • Image Pro Metallurgical analysis software.
  • Portable Brinell hardness tester.
  • Riehle Model KA-60 Hydraulic Tensile Tester - 60,000 lb. capacity.
  • Baird Spectrovac Model FSQ spectrometer - 14 elements for iron.
  • Chemical and Physical Certification to ASTM Standards.

Sand Testing Lab

Our Sand Testing Lab offers facilities and procedures to perform sand tests including:

  • Loss On Ignition
  • Acid Demand Value
  • AFS Sieve
  • Moisture
  • Tensile Strength

Core Room

  • Kloster Kadet 75 pounds per minute Pep-Set mixer.
  • Palmer 50 pounds per minute Pep-Set mixer.

Standard Iron Grades

  • ASTM A48 Class 30, Class 35 and Class 40.
  • ASTM A536 Grades 65-45-12, and 80-55-06

Other Capabilities

  • In-house pattern shop.Wheelabrator 96" Double Swing Table Roto-blastGrinding, cleaning, and cutting area.
  • Paint Booth

Machining