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Indian foundry invests for future

Issued at 2011-04-21



Dramatic improvement in surface quality and production rates will be the benefits of a new Italian grinding/fettling centre, says a major Indian casting facility.

Magna Electro Castings Limited (Tamilnadu, India), is a producer of small to medium ductile and grey iron castings and has purchased a new grinding/fettling centre from Maus SpA (Padua, Italy). The machine is a Maus SAM 600G, a compact yet powerful automatic grinding centre, with four-tool capacity and product load/unload time less than four seconds. 

Magna is a vertically integrated foundry, as it performs various machining, surface treatment and heat treating operations, in addition to its full foundry capabilities for various products sold to the valve, refrigeration, rail, hydraulics, automotive, wind turbine and other industries worldwide. 

The foundry runs a fully automated sand preparation and moulding line using equipment from its longtime supplier, Hunter Automated Machinery, which represents Maus in various world market regions. Magna currently runs a Hunter HMP20E Automatic Molding Machine (1994) and an HLH 20 Type II mould handling system (2007).  

The company’s managing director, Mr N Krishna Samaraj, said he was anticipating that this machining system, scheduled for start-up after July, 2011, will result in significant improvements in the surface quality and production rates.  www.magnacast.com

Contact: Kevin Purdy, vice president, Hunter Automated Machinery Corporation, 2222 Hammond Drive,Schaumburg, Illinois 60196-1094, USA. Tel: +1 847 397 5136, email: kpurdy@hunterauto.com   web: www.hunterauto.com


Source: Foundry Trade Journal



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