DISA Matchplate
Introduced in late 2000 and pioneered by the Benton Foundry in Pennsylvania, the DISA MATCH combines high-quality moulding with a high-speed throughput of 160 moulds per hour (120 with core setting).
The DISA MATCH addresses the urgent needs of jobbing foundries whose customers are demanding smaller, just-in-time deliveries of high-quality castings at competitive prices.
The new DISA Aluminium Process enables aluminium foundries to leverage the cost savings, process efficiency and flexibility of DISA vertical green sand moulding technology. New features including innovative active filling and automatic casting extraction mean that aluminium foundries can now leverage the speed and cost savings of vertical green sand moulding.
The DISA Green Sand Aluminium process is already proving its worth, for example in the production of components for the automotive industry.
The DISA moulding system has been developed to set a new standard for foundry equipment. The market demands castings with high quality, competitive price and more and more complex shapes. Based on these requirements we have made a completely new design of the mechanical and hydraulic system, including control of the whole process - this is what we call our New Generation!
Pressure die-casting is mostly used when it is necessary to include special geometries for joints, integrated spacers, handles and details for assembling, sophisticated containers, heat sinks with circular fins.
Die-cast products can be finished with:
- Polishing;
- Painting;
- Anodization;
- Chromate treatment (transparent and gold).
As for prototypes and/or little series it is possible to use pressure sand die-casting or with lost wax, prior of producing the final steel die.
Provided with the base unit are two filler metering systems, one resin metering system, one catalyst metering system, one base-color metering system and a two color contrast injector system. Additional raw material
systems can be supplied as needed.
The base Autocaster Ultracontinuous casting machine also includes:
· Up to 60 lbs/minute matrix production.
· Recipe based matrix control (100 recipes in control panel) with on-the-fly recipe changes and adjustments for resin %,
catalyst %, base-color and matrix output.
· Totalizer for all raw materials (except contrast color).
· Operator calibrated gear pumps for resin, catalyst and base colors.
· Operator calibrated solid-core filler metering augers.
· Filler hoppers with integrated anti-bridging devices.
· Integrated resin heating system.
· Adjustable flow contrast color injectors (up to eight units).
· High efficiency hardened steel machined mixing auger and barrel.
· Modular base-color systems with expandable base-color pump and recirculation.
· Inverter controlled motors for all raw materials (except contrast color).