HCI's state of the art manufacturing facility includes a captive 80,000 square foot machine facility called Axis Machining, Inc.

 

 

CAPABILITIES: Shell Molded Steel Castings up to 400 pounds, uncored to heavily cored.
METALS POURED: Carbon and Low Alloy Steels; Stainless and Heat Resisting Steels and Alloys.
HEAT TREATMENT: 6 in-house automatic systems for normalizing and/or quenching and tempering. Process certification available.
COREMAKING: 24 Machines various sizes.
MOLDING: Shell up to 44" x 54" pattern plates; 26 Machines various sizes with automatic transfer of molds and programmable controllers. Sand thermally recycled.
MELTING: Two 1500 Kw - 8000#, Two 1800 Kw - 8000# melt and pour Coreless Induction Furnaces. Two 3500 Kw - 8000# melt Coreless Induction Furnaces. Three 7000 Kw - 20,000# Coreless Induction Furnaces of which two melt and pour in tandem.
POURING: Two automated overhead systems. Both systems include shot backing of molds.
LAB: Two Angstrom Optical Emission Spectrometers. Mitutoyo CMM system. 420KVA Xray unit. Baush and Lomb optical microsope lab. Satec electronic tensile test bar testing system. Tinius Olsen charpy impact testing.
CLEANING: Two Fanuc robotic cells performing cutoff and snag;Twelve hydraulic abrasive cutoff saws; Snag, Swing, and hand grinders in cell stations; Five tumble shot blast machines ( 2 table and 1 custom design).
INSPECTION: In-house testing includes Brinell, Magnaflux, Visual and Die Penetrant in-house testing. Radiography and Ultrasonic are outsourced to certified labs.
VALUE ADDED: Rough through fully machined parts. Painting, preassembly, and assembly available per customer needs.
QUALITY ASSURANCE: Provided through AFS 3D Solidification modeling, Foseco's FEEDERCALC*, Ashland's EXACTCALC*, MasterCam Cad/Cam, Solidview concepts, and B&L Information System's software.
PATTERNS: Iron Shell pattern and core box tooling are manufactured in house and outsourced utilizing CNC and CAD technology.

 

CAPABILITIES: Ferrous and Non-Ferrous Castings.
TURNING CENTERS: Nine capable of 1600 lbs.; live tooling.
HORIZONTAL MACHINING CENTERS: Twenty CNC Machining Centers of various pallet sizes with indexable and live forth axis capacity up to 2865 lbs.
VERTICAL MACHINING CENTERS: Three production and fixturing CNC Machining Centers with xyz capacity to 59.80", 31" and 30".
MULTI-HEAD DRILL: Three Natco type; HSS application.
GRINDING: Blanchard, 42", 3000 lb. capacity.
PRESS: Two 50, and one 25 ton.
QUALITY ASSURANCE: Mitutoyo CMM with Geomeasure software.
CRANES: Twenty 1000 lb. capacity jib cranes.
VALUE ADDED: Pre-assemblies available using bearings, sleeves, pins, and springs. Rust preventive treatment available.
FIXTURING: Full in-house capabilities.

 

 

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Huron Casting, Inc. • 7050 Hartley St. • P.O. Box 679 • Pigeon, MI 48755
Phone: (989) 453-3933 • Fax: (989) 453-3319

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