The task of a steel foundry is to use metal raw materials to cast steel parts for various mechanical equipment manufacturers. Each steel cast can cast a different single piece, for example, Huafeng Steel casting plant can cast up to 30 tons of steel, and other additional services.

In fact, the steel cast by the steel foundry has been integrated into every aspect of our life, but ordinary people have little access to the steel foundry in their daily life, so that although we live in cement houses and walk across engineering Bridges, we still know nothing about what the steel foundry produces.

So what exactly does a steel foundry produce?

A steel foundry is a factory that produces steel castings. The process of production is to melt various metals and pass them into a mold to cool and solidify them. In fact, metal castings are used everywhere in our life, from high-tech aerospace, armaments, nuclear power, to high-speed trains, cars and ships we take in daily travel. Our life is almost surrounded by metal castings.

Casting steel process

Next, we will further understand the specific process of steel casting.

For ordinary steel castings, the general steps are making mold, melting metal, pouring, cooling, then taking out the cast steel, cleaning and other steps, so that the blank cast steel can be obtained. However, in many application scenarios, this quality can not meet the needs of actual use, so in order to improve the mechanical properties of the cast steel, heat treatment, mechanical processing, welding and other processes will be carried out.

Steel casting equipment

In the process of casting steel, we need to use a variety of casting equipment, including: steel furnace for melting molten steel, shot blasting machine for polishing the surface of castings, heat treatment furnace for improving the performance of castings, etc. In order to meet some high-end casting needs, more precision equipment will be used to purify molten steel. At present, Huafeng Cast Steel is equipped with two sets of 3 tons, 5 tons and 20 tons of electric steelmaking furnaces, three shot blasting machines, six heat treatment furnaces, and 25 tons of LF refining furnaces, which can make more subtle adjustments to the temperature of molten steel, improve the purity of molten steel, accelerate the production cycle of electric furnaces and improve the quality of molten steel. 25 tons of VD vacuum degassing furnace can pass degassing and deoxidation. Extremely efficient reduction of hydrogen and nitrogen content in steel to obtain pure liquid steel, to provide customers with the maximum quality castings.

With the development of the cast steel industry, the foundry industry can produce larger, safer and higher quality products. In the foundry industry around the world, the ranking of foundry capacity represents the industrial base of a country. China currently produces more than 44.5 million metric tons a year, according to data, far outpacing all competitors, with the U.S. in second place as the world's second-largest cast iron producer at 12.25 million tons.

National iron and steel nonferrous metal all

China 17000 5000 8000 30000

India -- 4,700

Japan 817 751 193 2085

United States 640 360 1001 200

The table shows the number of founds in each country according to Modern Foundry magazine's 2013 annual census of World Foundry production

Huafeng Cast Steel always pays attention to the forefront of the casting industry, can provide quality custom cast steel, and provide machining and welding services.