FACILITY

Patterns, Design and Tooling
The Company has invested in facilities to achieve its goal of speedy product development of high quality castings.

• Hi-Mac has in house pattern design and manufacturing facilities, equipped with CAD / CAM etc for quick development of new casting.
• Simulation Software (SoftCAST) for Methoding - This provides a foolproof mechanism to avoid shrinkages and to make sound castings.
• Pattern Shop. – Maintenance and manufacture of production toolings

Core Shop
Utilizing our expertise & facilities for making cores of different types, we are able to offer customers the perfect balance of intricacy and economy via utilization of the right type of core.

• Shell core shooters
• CO2 gas core making
• No Bake core making

Sand Plant
Fully automatic molding sand making system that includes Eirich make intensive sand mixer, Fluidized Bed Sand Cooler, aerator & dust extractor etc. to supply sand to molding line.

• Mechanized Sand Plant – 200 MT Sand capacity
• High Speed Intensive Sand Mixer from
• Eirich, Germany for perfect mixing of Return Sand, New Sand and Additives
• Batch Cycle Time - < 90 sec
• Flow Meter for accurate water addition
• Fluidized Bed Sand Cooler - 50 TPH
• Capacity
• PLC Controlled Panel for Auto Operation

Moulding Shop
Any high quality casting begins with a high-quality mould. This concept is clearly embodied in our investment in technology for producing moulds which result in castings with exceptional dimensional accuracy & superior surface finish.

• High Pressure Fully Automatic 2 station Flaskless
• Moulding machine from “KOYO”, Japan.
• High Productivity (120 Moulds / Hr)
• Near net shape castings, No Mis Match
• Pattern Change over time : 1 min
• Core Setting Time – 27 sec
• Mould Cake Size : 600x500x140~200 mm/140~200 mm
• Flexibility with 3 Pouring Lines & 3 Cooling Conveyors.
• Effective Cooling Time / Mould - 45 Min.

Melting Shop
Hi-Mac uses Medium Frequency Induction melting furnaces for optimal metal availability and power efficiency. The Company has installed Inductotherm’s DUAL TRAK- plus Induction Furnace which utilizes the latest technology in its power & control system to apply melting power to one furnace and holding power to another furnace, simultaneously.

• Dual Track “Plus” M.F. Induction Melting Furnace of 1250 KW/1500 Kg / 3 No. Crucibles
• Melt Rate 2.7 Ton/Hr
• Online Nodularity Tester
• Remote Display Crane Weigher of 3 T Capacity

Fetling
Hanger type shot blasting machines extract the sand and then the metal shavings are ground in the grinding and chipping operations. The final products are then finished as per the customers requirement, painted and finally packed in sea-worthy crates for export.

• Continuous Loop Spinners Hangers
• Shot Blasting Machine (500 kg Capacity)
• Hydraulic Runner/Gate Breaker
• Oscillating Vibratory Knock Out - 6m Long
• Pedestal Grinders 16” Dia. (6 Nos.)
• Pencil Grinders

Laboratory control
At Hi-Mac , we believe that the key to producing metallurgically sound castings lies in ensuring that the metal used is of the perfect composition. Our laboratory utilizes the most advanced equipment for determining chemical composition, Metiral Hardness,Microstructure,Mechnical Properties etc.

• Spectrometer – Bruker Quantron, Germany
• Universal Tensile Testing M/c – Shimadzu
• Hardness Tester
• Sand Testing Lab
• Muffle Furnace
• Oven
• Metallurgical Microscope GX-51, Olympus
• Image Analyzer Software (MetalSOFT)