Marine aluminium castings are our strongest reference: for more than ten years we have supplied cast aluminium parts to West Mekan Produksjon, which makes furniture and passenger seating for ferries and passenger vessels.
Industries
What parts have to withstand in six industries, and what we have supplied. Where we have no experience to show, we say so.
Marine
Marine aluminium castings are our strongest reference: for more than ten years we have supplied cast aluminium parts to West Mekan Produksjon, which makes furniture and passenger seating for ferries and passenger vessels.
Defence
What a defence components supplier in Norway has to be able to document, and which cast parts are relevant. This page describes requirements rather than references, and qualifications are clarified per project.
Mobility aids
For an assistive device components supplier, the core job is load-bearing brackets for wheelchairs and walking aids: parts that carry a person every day for years, yet keep the device light enough to lift into a car.
Electronics and audio
Housings, covers and chassis where the metal does three jobs at once: it shields electromagnetically, conducts heat away and holds the geometry stable.
Furniture
Fittings for furniture production, cast in zinc. The surface is part of the product, and the thread has to survive the furniture being assembled and taken apart more than once.
Garden equipment
Components for garden equipment, such as brackets and mounts, where cost per part decides. Every gram removed during design pays off across the whole series.
Industries
The same process. Entirely different requirements.
A bracket for a wheelchair and a bracket for a garden tool look alike on the drawing. In the specification they share almost nothing.
Six industries
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What a defence components supplier in Norway has to be able to document, and which cast parts are relevant. This page describes requirements rather than references, and qualifications are clarified per project.
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For an assistive device components supplier, the core job is load-bearing brackets for wheelchairs and walking aids: parts that carry a person every day for years, yet keep the device light enough to lift into a car.
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Housings, covers and chassis where the metal does three jobs at once: it shields electromagnetically, conducts heat away and holds the geometry stable.
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Fittings for furniture production, cast in zinc. The surface is part of the product, and the thread has to survive the furniture being assembled and taken apart more than once.
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Components for garden equipment, such as brackets and mounts, where cost per part decides. Every gram removed during design pays off across the whole series.
What is critical where
| Criterion | The critical requirement | Typical parts |
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| Marine | Corrosion in salt atmosphere, galvanic contact, fire requirements in interiors | Fittings, seat frame mounts, brackets, enclosures |
| Defence | Traceability, European origin, configuration control | Brackets, mounts, housings for portable equipment |
| Mobility aids | Weight and strength at once, freedom from porosity, documented change control | Load-bearing brackets, hinges, adjustment fittings |
| Furniture | Surface and colour, threads that survive repeated assembly | Fittings, leg mounts, hinges, handles |
| Electronics | EMC shielding, heat dissipation, flat sealing faces | Housings, covers, chassis, loudspeaker enclosures |
| Garden equipment | Cost per part, UV and moisture, seasonal call-offs | Brackets, gear housings, handle mounts |
How to choose
Four questions decide more than the industry
Industry is a coarse sort. Whether a part suits casting comes down to four questions that recur whoever the customer is: what load the part carries, what environment it sits in, how many you need a year, and how much of the surface is on show.
Load decides alloy and process. A load-bearing part needs controlled porosity along the load path, and gravity die casting followed by heat treatment is then often a better answer than die casting, even though die casting is faster per part. Environment decides alloy and finish: in a salt atmosphere the copper content of the alloy matters a great deal for corrosion resistance.
Quantity decides the tooling, and with it the economics. Die casting typically pays from a few thousand parts per year or per order. Gravity die casting can pay at a fifth to a tenth of that, because the tool costs less. Visibility decides where the parting line and the ejector marks can sit. That is settled when the tool is designed and cannot be corrected afterwards without rebuilding the tool.
The industry pages work through these questions for each industry, with what we have supplied and what has to be clarified. If you do not recognise your case, the approach is the same: send the drawing and the quantities, and we will read the requirements out of the geometry. Parts we have made are listed under product examples.
Do not see your industry?
We have also supplied parts for vehicles and general industry. What decides is the requirements on the drawing, not the industry you are in.
Cannot find your industry?
What matters most is what the part has to do. Send the drawing and we will go through the requirements with you.