Sand Castings -

At Meloon Foundries, we offer our clients the best in sand casting. Our no-bake and green sand casting methods can handle your heavy, large and complex castings up to 93″ long, 93″ wide and 48″ high. Our castings can be corrosion resistant, heat and wear resistant and tested for tensile strength and Brinell hardness.

Meloon can handle a wide variety of aluminum and copper based alloys. We also offer additional services, such as rapid prototyping, pattern design and production, heat treating and metal certification.

Among the areas we serve are medical, railroad or OEM machine building industries, Meloon is your one-stop-shop for all your sand casting projects. For more information about our sand castings, please contact Meloon Foundries.

TYPICAL PRODUCTION

No Bake Molding of an Aluminum Window Grate for the Architectural Industry
No Bake Molding of an Aluminum Impeller for Centrifugal Blower Builders
No Bake Molding of an Aluminum Plenum for the Plastic Film Manufacturing Industry
Green Sand Casting of a Bronze Spider for the Paper Making Industry
Green Sand Casting of a Bronze Columbarium Face Plate for the Architectural Industry

General Capabilities	Heavy Castings Large Castings	Complex Castings
Casting Method	No-Bake Green Sand Casting
Casting Features	Corrosion Resistant High Tensile Heat Resistant	Heat Treated Wear Resistant Specific Conductivity
Casting Mold Type	Single Use
Casting Process Materials	Green Sand No-Bake Sand
Casting Length	Up to 93 in
Casting Width	Up to 93 in
Casting Height	Up to 48 in
Thinnest Section Castable	1/8 in
Casting Weight	Ounces to 2,000 lbs
Tolerance (+/-)	.030 in
Aluminum Alloys	SR319 355 356 A356 443	535 713 771 ZA12
Temper	T-6 T-51
Copper Base Alloys	C89833 (Non-leaded C836) Aluminum Bronze Manganese Bronze	Silicon Bronze Other Copper Based Alloys as Requested
Additional Services Provided In house	Rapid Prototyping Steel Shot Blasting Stress Relieving	Heat Treating Metal Certification Pattern Design
Additional Services Available from Qualified Sources	X-ray Zyglon Machining	Powder Coating Painting Anodizing
Quality Control	Metallographic Lab Sand Testing Lab	Spectrograph Mechanical Testing
Testing	Tensile Brinell Hardness
Inspection	X-ray Liquid Particle
Production Volume	Small to Medium Production Runs
Typical Lead Time	4 to 6 weeks Expedited Services Available