The continuous casting process is a pivotal industrial technique in the manufacturing of steel, enabling cost‐effective production by solidifying molten metal into semi-finished billets, blooms, or ...

Continuous casting remains the backbone of modern steel production, providing an efficient means to convert molten metal into semi‐finished forms such as slabs, blooms and billets. The process ...

Gigacasting confers advantages such as improved car body stiffness, reduced manufacturing cost and reduced assembly time and cost. Credit: Idra Group. In September, Toyota unveiled a prototype of its ...

GM Powertrain has been applying CAE methods to casting and machining process design for over 10 years, and currently has approximately 20 manufacturing engineers doing analysis work full time. This ...

Today's leading casting manufacturers employ many new technologies to produce high quality engineered castings. Foremost among these technologies is casting process simulation. With casting process ...

The Fraunhofer ILT and MacLean-Fogg have jointly produced a complex die casting tool inlay using Laser Powder Bed Fusion (PBF-LB/M). The specially developed L-40 tool steel enables the additive ...

Tesla has announced that it started operating what is believed to be the “world’s largest casting machine” at Fremont factory. As we previously reported, Tesla has made some significant casting ...

Volvo is spending $1.1 billion upgrading its Swedish auto plant for electric-car production. It's taking a page out of Tesla's playbook by introducing the process of megacasting. Volvo aims to be an ...