Marine aluminium castings are our strongest reference: more than ten years supplying West Mekan Produksjon, which makes furniture and passenger seating for ferries and passenger vessels.
Industries
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Marine
Marine aluminium castings are our strongest reference: more than ten years supplying West Mekan Produksjon, which makes furniture and passenger seating for ferries and passenger vessels.
Defence
A defence components supplier in Norway starts with one structural advantage: a traceable European supply chain, which is exactly what the segment is now asking for. We have no defence references today. This page sets out what we have and what is missing.
Mobility aids
An assistive device components supplier is judged on one thing: load-bearing brackets for wheelchairs and walking aids that carry a person, every day, for many years — and still be light enough for the user to lift the device 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
Zinc fittings where 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
The volume part. Here cost per part decides, and every gram removed during design feeds straight into the customer margin for the life of the 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.
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Six industries
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A defence components supplier in Norway starts with one structural advantage: a traceable European supply chain, which is exactly what the segment is now asking for. We have no defence references today. This page sets out what we have and what is missing.
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An assistive device components supplier is judged on one thing: load-bearing brackets for wheelchairs and walking aids that carry a person, every day, for many years — and still be light enough for the user to lift the device 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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Zinc fittings where 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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The volume part. Here cost per part decides, and every gram removed during design feeds straight into the customer margin for the life of the series.
What is critical where
| Kriterium | The critical requirement | Typical parts |
|---|---|---|
| Marine | — | — |
| Defence | — | — |
| Mobility aids | — | — |
| Furniture | — | — |
| Electronics | — | — |
| Garden equipment | — | — |
How to choose
Four questions decide more than the industry
Industry is a coarse sort. What actually decides whether a part suits casting is four questions that recur whoever the customer is: what load the part carries, what environment it sits in, how many of it there are per 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 casting followed by heat treatment is then often a better answer than pressure die casting — even though pressure die casting is faster per part. Environment decides alloy and finish: in a salt atmosphere the copper content of the alloy matters more for corrosion resistance than almost anything you can do to the surface afterwards.
Volume decides the tooling, and with it the whole economics. Below a few thousand parts a year pressure die casting drops out and gravity takes over. Visibility decides where the parting line and the ejector marks can sit — a decision taken when the tool is designed, and one that cannot be corrected afterwards without rebuilding the tool.
The six pages below work through those four questions for each industry, together with what we cannot supply there today. If you do not recognise your own case in any of them, the approach is the same: send the drawing and we will read the requirements out of the geometry.
Do not see your industry?
We have supplied construction, general industry and consumer goods as well. What decides is the requirements on the drawing, not the industry you sit in.
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