Specifications
What we can deliver
The information you need to decide whether we can make your part.
Machine park
- Processes in house
- Pressure die casting (aluminium and zinc), gravity die casting, CNC turning, CNC milling, boring, heat treatment, blasting
- Processes we do not have
- Sand casting, toolmaking, anodising, powder coating
- CAM software
- Autodesk Fusion 360
- Number of die casting machines
- Available on request
- Clamping force
- Available on request
- Hot or cold chamber
- Available on request
- Maximum shot weight
- Available on request
- Platen size and maximum die height
- Available on request
- Gravity casting stations
- Available on request
- Maximum mould size, gravity
- Available on request
- Melting furnaces and melting capacity
- Available on request
- CNC lathes
- Available on request
- Maximum turning diameter and length
- Available on request
- CNC mills
- Available on request
- Milling work envelope
- Available on request
- Boring machine
- Available on request
- Heat treatment furnace
- Available on request
- Blasting equipment
- Available on request
- Automation
- Available on request
- Machining operations
- CNC turning, CNC milling, boring, tapping, sawing, grinding
- Machining experience
- More than 30 years
- Number of axes, milling
- Available on request
- Heat treatment applies to
- Gravity die cast aluminium parts
- Heat treatment — effect
- Higher tensile strength and higher ultimate strength
- Tempers we run
- Available on request
- Blasting
- In house
- Anodising
- Via subcontractor — aluminium only, zinc cannot be anodised
- Powder coating
- Via subcontractor
- Finishing subcontractors
- Available on request
- Die ownership
- The customer owns the tool. We procure it, specify it for our machines and maintain it.
- Typical tooling cost
- Available on request
- Die life, aluminium
- Available on request
- Die life, zinc
- Available on request
- Storage and insurance of customer-owned dies
- Available on request
- Shift pattern
- Available on request
Alloys
- Metals
- Aluminium and zinc
- Feedstock form
- Ingot from established suppliers
- Aluminium supplier
- Metallco, Toten, Norway — secondary aluminium realloyed against international standards
- Aluminium melting point
- 660 °C
- Aluminium casting temperature
- 680–700 °C
- Alloy selection
- Made together with the customer, as part of the design review
- Aluminium alloys, pressure die casting
- Available on request
- Aluminium alloys, gravity
- Available on request
- Zinc alloys
- Available on request
- Customer-specified alloy
- Available on request
- Material certificate
- Available on request
- Melt and batch traceability
- Available on request
- Recycled content
- Available on request
Tolerances and measurement
- Tolerance grade as cast
- Available on request
- Tolerance grade after machining
- Available on request
- Tightest tolerance on a single dimension
- Available on request
- Documented example — critical tolerances as cast
- Garden equipment bracket: bearing fit and pressure tightness held as cast, with no subsequent machining
- Surface roughness as cast
- Available on request
- Surface roughness after blasting
- Available on request
- Measuring equipment
- Available on request
- First article inspection (FAI)
- Available on request
- Measurement report on delivery
- Available on request
- In-process control
- Available on request
- Pressure tightness testing
- Available on request
Part sizes
- Part weight
- From a few grams to several kilos Estimate
- Maximum part envelope
- Available on request
- Maximum projected area
- Available on request
- Minimum wall thickness, aluminium
- Available on request
- Minimum wall thickness, zinc
- Available on request
- Minimum wall thickness, gravity
- Available on request
- Minimum draft angle
- Available on request
- Minimum cored hole
- Available on request
- Insert casting
- Available on request
- Multi-cavity tooling
- Available on request
Series and lead time
- Response to an enquiry
- After a technical review
- Formal quotation with final files
- After a technical review
- Indicative minimum series, pressure die casting
- A few thousand parts per year or per order
- Indicative minimum series, gravity
- A fifth to a tenth of the pressure die casting volume
- Typical series size in production
- Available on request
- Lead time from tool order to first sample
- Available on request
- Time from sample to approved series start
- Available on request
- Lead time in running series
- Available on request
- Annual capacity
- Available on request
- Available capacity
- Available on request
- Call-off and stock holding
- Available on request
- Added lead time for external finishing
- Available on request
- Prototypes and pre-series
- Available on request
Quality
- Code of conduct
- Published — covering environment, health and safety, legal compliance, employment practice, ethics, supplier requirements and anti-corruption
- ILO reference in supplier requirements
- Yes — prohibition on child labour, coercion and physical punishment at suppliers
- Norwegian Transparency Act
- Not covered — below all three thresholds. Publishes supplier requirements voluntarily.
- Confidentiality
- A business principle — every product example on this site is anonymised, and customers are not named without consent
- Industry membership
- The Norwegian Foundry Technical Association
- Certified quality system (ISO 9001)
- Available on request
- Environmental certification (ISO 14001 / Eco-Lighthouse)
- Available on request
- IATF 16949 (automotive)
- Available on request
- Inspection routines
- Available on request
- Nonconformance and complaint handling
- Available on request
- Scrap rate / on-time delivery
- Available on request
- Supplier audit
- Available on request
- EPD and carbon accounting
- Available on request
Qualification
What you need to assess us, in one place
Machines, alloys, tolerances, part sizes, series and quality. Where the figure is documented, it is here. Where it is not, it says “Available on request”, because we do not publish figures we have not verified.
Background
Why this page exists
If you are sitting with a drawing, you need a few figures to decide whether a supplier is relevant: how big the part can be, how much it can weigh, which alloys are used, which tolerance is held, how small the series can be, and how long the lead time is. If you cannot find them, it is easy to move on to the next name on the list.
We have cast metal since 1945 and machined for more than 30 years, but much of what we can do has never been written down. Here we publish what is documented. The rest we fill in once the figures have been verified.
That is why the pages below look a little unusual. Some fields carry a number. Others say “Available on request”. We could have written “a high degree of accuracy and repeatability” instead, but that does not help you decide anything.
Six groups
Where to find what
Machines
What stands on the floor, and what limits it sets. Clamping force, work envelope, number of machines.
Alloys
Aluminium and zinc with material data from the standards — and what separates them where it matters.
Tolerances and measurement
What holds as cast, what has to be machined, and how it is verified.
Part sizes
How big, how heavy and how thin a part can be — and why the limit differs in zinc and aluminium.
Series and lead time
How many parts it takes, and how long it takes. An answer to your enquiry after a technical review.
Quality
What we have, what we do not have, and what you can ask for. Written for the buyer filling in a supplier questionnaire.
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