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Precision Investment Casting Tooling
At Texmo Blank, we offer complete in-house tooling manufacture, providing a fully integrated investment casting service from design through to production. Our expert team creates high-grade aluminium alloy investment casting tools essential for producing precise wax patterns that form the foundation of your final metal castings.
Our Investment Casting Tooling Process
Creating reliable, high-quality investment casting tools is a critical step in the overall investment casting process. We design and manufacture our tooling in-house to maintain the highest standards and ensure seamless integration with our casting operations.
Our tooling process includes:
- Design & Engineering: Our engineers utilise advanced CAD software to develop tooling designs tailored to meet your specific part geometry and production requirements, optimising for both durability and precision.
- High-Grade Aluminium Alloy Tool Creation: We machine our tooling from robust, high-quality aluminium alloys, which provide the durability needed to produce hundreds of thousands of wax patterns while maintaining dimensional stability.
- Wax Injection Moulding: Our aluminium tools serve as the moulds for wax injection, where molten wax is precisely injected to form exact positive wax patterns replicating the final cast part.
- Design Refinement and Testing: Each tool undergoes thorough testing for dimensional accuracy, surface finish, and repeatability before production. We continuously refine tooling to maintain consistent quality throughout production cycles.
This full control over tooling allows us to offer faster lead times, technical flexibility, and quality assurance across your investment casting projects.
Benefits of Texmo Blank Investment Casting Tooling
- Precision and Repeatability: In-house tooling and wax injection processes ensure tight tolerances and consistent wax pattern quality.
- Flexibility: Rapid design iterations and adjustments enable quick responses to product changes or development needs.
- Cost-Effectiveness: Aluminium tooling provides a durable and economical solution suitable for high-volume production runs.
- Short Lead Times: Integrated tooling and casting operations minimise communication delays, thereby accelerating the time to market.
- Traceability and Quality: Every tool and wax pattern produced is fully traceable, enabling comprehensive quality control and reproducibility.
- Industry Versatility: Our tooling supports a wide range of industries, including aerospace, medical, automotive, and industrial machinery.
FAQs About Investment Casting Tooling
What is investment casting tooling?
Investment casting tooling refers to the specially designed moulds, usually made from high-grade aluminium alloy, used to inject wax into specific shapes. These wax patterns serve as the basis for the ceramic moulds used to produce the final metal cast parts.
How long does it take to manufacture investment casting tooling?
Tooling lead time varies depending on design complexity and the number of iterations required. Texmo Blank is proud to offer some of the industry's fastest turnaround times, with regular progress updates throughout the tooling development process.
Is investment casting tooling expensive?
Since investment casting tooling is made from aluminium and lasts for hundreds of thousands of parts, the cost for investment casting tooling is relatively inexpensive in comparison to tooling required for other metal forming techniques. However, tooling is a specialised process and is always required for investment castings. To help offset the cost, rapid prototyping is available as a more cost-effective way to design castings, as it means you do not need to invest in tooling until a final prototype has been agreed. This means you only create the final tool you use, rather than making iterations of the tool as you make adjustments to your design. We do still offer prototyping using a tool should that be more suitable for your specific project.
Can investment casting tooling accommodate design changes?
Yes, our in-house tooling design and manufacturing capabilities allow us to quickly adapt tooling to design modifications with minimal disruption to production schedules.
What materials are used for investment casting tooling?
We primarily use high-grade aluminium alloys for tooling due to their strength, heat resistance, and durability, ensuring consistent wax pattern quality over extensive use.
How does tooling quality impact the final investment casting?
High-quality tooling ensures accurate wax patterns, which directly affect the surface finish, dimensional accuracy, and overall quality of the final metal casting.
Do you offer multi-cavity tooling?
Yes, to improve production efficiency, we design and manufacture multi-cavity tooling where applicable, enabling the simultaneous production of multiple wax patterns.
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