Investment Casting Process

Wax Injection

Molten wax is introduce into a aluminum die from an injection machine for making wax pattern.

Wax assembly

Wax patterns are assembled on a sprue to form a mould, normally known as “tree”.

Shell Construction

Wax tree are washed and then are dipped in investment slurry and refractory sand. After drying, the process will repeat up to form a ceramic shell.

Dewax

Wax contained within ceramic mould is reclaimed using steam dewaxing method.

Pouring

Ceramic shell are sintered and then heated until casting.

Shell Removal

Once the metal has solidified, the ceramic is removed using knockout hammer.

Finishing

Pieces are cleaned and all risers, sprues or trees are removed.

Inspection

An inspection of the parts is performed to ensure the quality of the final products.

Final Product

The product is packaged and stored.

Commitment Quality

Fundición de Aleaciones Especiales de México, S.A. de C.V. provides products and services that meet the requirements and expectations of our customers, to achieve it, we have established an continuous improvement program that provides a strict control from the tooling design to the final product.

Quality

Fundición de Aleaciones Especiales de México, S.A. de C.V., has a systematic control of all the production variables since the selection of the raw material, the monitoring each stage of the manufacturing process until sending to costumers the finished product. Within the strategies of growth and opening of new markets, we have adopted the ISO 9001: 2015 standard to document the development and implementation of the company's quality management system.

Quality Policy

Fundición de Aleaciones Especiales de México, S.A. de C.V., (FAE, S.A. de C.V.) has the conviction to work under the quality standards that our customers and international standards governing to the products by Investment Casting, to do this, we use equipment and advanced technology, trained personnel and continuous improvement methods for the control of processes, likewise , we have adopted the ISO 9001: 2015 standard to develop and implement the Quality Management System in FAE, S.A. de C.V.