Challenge Oil City Iron Works, Inc. is a Texas based foundry specializing in gray iron casting, ductile iron casting, iron machining, ni-resist casting, and heat treatment. They currently have two molding lines, utilizing a BMM Molding Machine as well as a Hunter 20 molding line. Prior to contacting GK, Oil City was utilizing a rotary [...]
Canadian foundry upgrades rotary media drum to GK DUCTA-SERIES
February 24, 2012 By
Challenge A Canadian metal casting facility had an existing rotary media drum that was due for replacement. They were looking to upgrade from their old style rotary drum to a state-of-the-art casting cleaning and de-gating technology that catered to their foundry process. What prompted them to look for a new solution was that the existing [...]
Upgrade from Variable Angle to Two-Mass Shakeout reduces foundry maintenance budget.
February 24, 2012 By
Challenge A Southern US foundry currently pours heavy cast parts for the construction equipment industry, with individual casting weights up to 1200 lbs. Their existing shakeout process included a non-GK variable-angle brute force shakeout that was costing them up to $25,000 per month in bearing replacement and maintenance costs. The unit had also started to [...]
In Stock Components Reduce Customer Downtime
January 11, 2012 By
Challenge: A foundry customer located in Alabama has had a General Kinematics vibratory machine in service for many decades. One of the motors on the machine that had been in operation for over 30 years finally failed late one afternoon, leaving that customer in a downtime situation. Approach: The customer did not have a replacement [...]
Case Study: Custom Designed Conveyor Drive
October 17, 2011 By
Challenge A Southern US Steel Fabricator was in need of a low headroom conveyor to capture small scrap sections from their cutting tables. Existing hoppers and a short aisle for scrap collection did not allow for standard height vibratory conveyors. Belt conveyors were not permitted due to sharp steel sections. When GKC offered to look at [...]
Case Study: Sand Reclamation with GK’s VIBRA-MILL® Sand Reclaimer
August 12, 2011 By
Challenge: Eck Industries, Inc. is a privately-owned family business with over 62 years of experience in the aluminum foundry industry. As an ISO 9001 and ITAR certified company, Eck is capable of producing castings to the strictest quality requirements. As part of the Eck’s maintenance and quality program the company was looking to increase its [...]
Case Study: Large Storage Feeder for ASR
August 12, 2011 By
Challenge: A shredder operator had a need to re-feed Auto Shred Residue (ASR) back into their system for non-ferrous removal. The material is mostly fluff and light weight by nature. In order to meet plant capacity, a large volume of ASR would have to be staged, conveyed, and then metered at the appropriate rate to [...]
Case Study: De-Stoner® for Cleaning Wood in a Pelletizing System
August 12, 2011 By
Challenge: Prior to the installation of a wood preparation system ahead of a pelletizing unit, GKC conducted testing to show how the De-Stoner® air classifier could be used to remove unwanted heavy material (Rocks). Because this testing indicated that only a small amount of rock was present and some other type of classifier was proposed [...]
Case Study: Copper Detection System
August 5, 2011 By
Challenge Copper content reduces the value of scrap material in the ferrous foundry industry. Metal recycling facilities, therefore, look to provide certification on the scrap they provide to increase the saleable price per ton. A Midwestern metal recovery facility installed their first copper detection system with General Kinematics components with success. As this customer looked [...]
Case Study: Finger-Screen™ Reduces Downtime
August 4, 2011 By
Problem or Potential Need: Punchings from a stamping facility can cause havoc at the baler. History: During the stamping process literally thousands of -1 ¼” punchings of different shapes are created. The punchings and larger scrap pieces travel together to the scrap baler. In the baler the small punchings get wedged in the tight crevices [...]