Our Facilities
Rely Precision Castings has six manufacturing facilities within their premises.
Facilities
Our facilities include the Wax, Dipping, Melting, Fettling, Heat Treatment and Laboratory manufacturing facilities.
Tour of the foundry
Wax Room
The Wax Room and wax processing part of the foundry is equipped with the following:
- 5x Muller Phipps Wax Presses
- 4x Modtech fully automated Presses
- 4xGifu Presses
- 2x Bryant Wax Presses
- Wax Reclamation Plant
- Wax Pattern Assembly Line
- 3x Leeds and Bradford autoclaves controlled by PLC
Tool room:
Responsible for maintaining tooling within wax room
Dipping
The Dipping Department is equipped with the following:
- Colloidal silica system – water based dipping slurry
- Modtech , KUKA Automated robotic dipping line
- ABB robotic line controlled via a PLC computer
- Four manual dipping lines.
- Conveyor system for drying of investment moulds
Melting
The Melting Department has the following equipment:
- 6x Inductotherm Melting Power Packs – 125KW to 400KW
- 14x Furnace Bodies – 40Kg to 500Kg
- 4x Top Hat furnaces for baking the Investment moulds
- 2x Front load kilns
- Calibrated Thermocouples and Pyrometers for temperature measurement
Fettling/
Surface
Finishing
In this department Rely Precision Castings can offer the following surface finishes:
- Water blast
- Bead Blast
- Sand Blast
- Steel Blasting
- Stainless Steel Blast
Heat Treatment
Heat treatment cycles that can be carried out in-house include:
- Normalize
- Solution Anneal (Water Quench)
- Anneal
- Sub Critical Anneal
- Precipitation Hardening
- Air Quench Hardening
- Tempering
Sub-Contract Heat Treatment available includes:
- Oil Hardening
- Carburizing
- Nitriding
- Vacuum Heat treatment
Laboratory
The laboratory is fully supported by two in-house metallurgists. Most of the senior management of Rely Precision Castings are also trained metallurgists. Equipment used in our laboratory includes:
- Spectrographic Chemical Analysis
- 3 types of Hardness Testers:
Rockwell
Brinell (1000Kg/3000Kg)
Vickers - Microscopes:
Metallurgical
Stereo Microscope - Metallurgical Polishing Equipment
- Plus Laboratory Furnaces, Humidity Balance, Centrifuge, etc.