Well-equipped support facilities have given a fillip to the core competence of the Foundry & Forge Division. No wonder, the Division is perhaps one of the few companies in the world to manufacture high quality castings and forgings - all under one roof.

Complementing the Division's comprehensive infrastructure is its manpower of skilled and experienced workmen and highly qualified engineers. The Division spares no effort to impart professional and technical training to constantly update their skills and capabilities.

Product Engineering

This customer-driven full-fledged and well-equipped Engineering Department, with its highly qualified and experienced professionals, acts as a functional interface between our customer and manufacturing departments, rendering technical support. The department is also responsible for process optimization and trouble shooting to ensure total and consistent conformance of quality of products to customer specifications.

Tooling

The Division's Forge Tool Room is equipped with a three axis CNC machining centre, electrical discharge machines with digital displays, copy mailing machines and die-optic projector for in situ correction of dies with precision aerofoil or such other shapes. In addition, the Division has a number of conventional milling, turning drilling and surface grinding machines. This shop specialises in the manufacture of close tolerance precision forging dies for which all major and crucial operations are carried out in-house by skilled workforce. The combination of men and machine - the technology of CAD/CAM adapted and applied by the well-trained hands of experienced personnel - naturally results in precise dimensional accuracy of dies. At the Pattern Shop, complicated and large metallic patterns for investment castings and wooden patterns for sand and gravity die castings in aluminium and magnesium alloys are manufactured.

Heat Treatment

The two Heat Treatment sections, one each in the Foundry and Forge shops are equipped with electrically heated furnaces (up to 2.2 metres diameter size) with advanced temperature controllers and recorders for a range of heat treatments from solutionising and ageing to hardening and tempering, besides annealing and normalising. Among the other facilities are 1 m diameter * 1 m depth vaccum heat treat future with gas quenching facility and argon atmosphere furnaces for heat treatment under inert atmosphere.

Surface Treatment

The Division has excellent facilities for Surface Treatment necessary for intermediate processing stages as well as for protection before final supply. These include chromating treatment for magnesium alloy castings, sand blasting of both castings and forgings, lanolin protective coating of all forgings prior to supply, anodising of aluminium alloy components and abrasive blasting and vibratory finishing of precision forgings.