Services
Die casting in Norway. The part does not travel between suppliers.
Most foundries hand over a raw casting. We cast the bracket, heat treat it, machine the mounting points and blast it. The only link that happens outside the building is anodising and painting.
The connection
Why the chain matters
A cast bracket that needs tapping normally travels like this: the foundry casts, packs and ships. The machine shop receives, unpacks, fixtures, machines, packs and ships. The finisher receives, blasts or paints, packs and ships. Three suppliers, three packing operations, three transports, three invoices — and three places to start looking when a dimension falls out of tolerance.
Here, that same bracket goes from casting machine to degating to CNC to blast cabinet without leaving the building. That means shorter lead time, fewer interfaces and one point of accountability.
It is also why we do not sell the services below as detached units. They are links in a chain, and the value is in the assembly.
Overview
The eight services
Zinc die casting
Thinner walls, sharper detail and longer die life than aluminium. Almost no Norwegian supplier offers it.
Aluminium die casting
Thin walls, complex geometry and seconds per shot — in recycled aluminium. The process behind most of our parts.
Gravity die casting
Lower tooling cost, smaller series — and the only route to heat treated strength.
CNC machining
Machining of castings in the same building as the foundry. More than 30 years of experience, programmed in Fusion 360.
Heat treatment
Where the strength comes from, when casting alone is not enough. Applies to gravity cast aluminium parts.
Surface finishing
Blasting here. Anodising and painting at established subcontractors — and we tell you where the line runs.
Design review
Positive product criticism — you get a technical castability review, not just a price.
Tooling
We procure it, specify it for our machines and maintain it. You own it.
The process
How they connect
Ten steps from drawing to packed part. Not every part passes through every step — which apply to yours is settled in the design review.
- 01
Drawing in and castability review
You send a drawing, a STEP file or a sketch. We work through whether the part can be cast as drawn — and what should change.
First response within 24 hours
- 02
Tooling
The die is procured through our preferred toolmakers, designed and gated for our machines. You own the finished tool.
- 03
Raw material in
Aluminium and zinc arrive as ingot from established suppliers. The aluminium is secondary metal — remelted, not newly extracted.
- 04
Melting
The metal is melted in a furnace. Aluminium melts at 660 °C and is cast at 680–700 °C. Zinc melts at around 385 °C.
- 05
Casting
The melt fills the steel die — under high pressure in die casting, under its own weight in gravity casting. The part freezes in seconds.
Seconds per shot in die casting, minutes in gravity
- 06
Ejection and degating
The part is pushed out of the die by ejector pins. Runner, overflows and flash are removed.
- 07
Heat treatment
Gravity cast aluminium parts that need more strength are heat treated. Pressure die cast parts normally are not.
- 08
Machining
Faces and holes needing tighter tolerances than casting delivers are milled, turned, drilled and tapped. On our own machines, fifty metres from the casting machine.
- 09
Surface finishing
Blasting we do ourselves. Anodising and powder coating go to established subcontractors.
- 10
Inspection and dispatch
Parts are inspected and packed. This is the step we have documented worst, and we will own that.
Scope
And this we do not do
Knowing what a supplier cannot do is as useful as knowing what he can. It saves you a week on an enquiry that was never going anywhere.
- Sand casting. We do not have it. Large, heavy structural parts in sand are a different trade with different equipment.
- Toolmaking as a service. We buy and maintain dies; we do not make them.
- Anodising and powder coating in house. That link goes to established subcontractors.
- One-offs without tooling. Our model assumes a series. For a single part, additive manufacturing or machining from solid is the right answer.
- Products of our own. We have no brand and no product portfolio. Everything we make was drawn by a customer.
- Metals other than aluminium and zinc. No steel, no brass, no bronze.
Not sure which process your part needs?
That is exactly what the design review answers. Send the drawing and we will tell you which process and which metal fits — and why.
Casting
Spydspiss
Zinc die casting
Thinner walls, sharper detail, longer die life — and almost no Norwegian suppliers.
Spydspiss
Aluminium die casting
Thin walls, complex geometry and seconds per shot — in recycled aluminium.
Gravity die casting
Lower tooling cost, smaller series — and the only route to heat treated strength.
Heat treatment
Where the strength comes from — when casting alone is not enough.
Machining
Finishing
Surface finishing
Blasting here. Anodising and painting at established subcontractors — and we tell you where the line runs.
Advisory
Tooling
We procure it, specify it for our machines and maintain it. You own it.
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