A Brazilian metalcaster, Maringá Soldas S. A. in Curitiba, is the newest licensee for the SinterCast experience for compacted graphite ironmaking. Stockholm-based SinterCast will arrange its System 4000 experience and provide engineering help to the specialty producer of aftermarket automotive cylinder heads.
The 55-year-old foundry claims to be Latin America’s largest producer of cylinder heads and components for diesel engines, along with Caterpillar, Cummins, Maxion/Perkins, Mercedes-Benz, MWM, Scania, and Volvo fashions.
SinterCast is the developer and licensor of the world’s most usually used experience for producing compacted graphite iron, or CGI. The sunshine-weight ferrous supplies is in demand by automotive and industrial engine producers for its extreme tensile vitality, stiffness, and fatigue vitality that is higher than gray iron or aluminum.
“Compacted graphite iron has been the quickest rising experience throughout the foundry commerce over the earlier twenty years,” commented Sandro José Assolari, president of Maringá Soldas. “This cumulative growth has resulted in extra than 10 million CGI engines throughout the self-discipline, and an intense demand for CGI throughout the aftermarket sector.
“Because the distinctive drive behind the worldwide CGI movement, and the world chief for CGI manufacturing, properties and software program, we now have taken the strategic decision to align ourselves with SinterCast. This alignment ensures that our aftermarket purchasers will revenue from the equivalent course of administration experience and metallurgical prime quality because the distinctive OEM components.”
The arrange could be commissioned all through This autumn 2024, consistent with SinterCast.
“After better than 20 years of assortment manufacturing, it is rewarding to see our experience adopted moreover for the aftermarket sector,” offered SinterCast president and CEO Dr. Steve Dawson.