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Customized solutions

"The standard is not enough by itself and we can't just be cheap either." Real solutions to customers' requirements are needed. Thanks to the broad make-up of the KURTZ team and the synergies with the in-house aluminium foundry, KURTZ has been able to acquire an excellent reputation in customer specific special solutions. 

This is corroborated by outstanding customer references, such as BMW, KS ATAG, Honsel, runewald or Mahle. The application spectrum of KURTZ low-pressure casting machines reaches from rapid-prototyping to serial casting up to special solutions; for example, the casting of cylinder crank cases.

Both coreless constructions (open deck design) are cast as well as designs in closed deck, where the handling of the water-jacket core places an additional requirement on the process. The machines are equipped with core pulls corresponding to the casting part, whereby the precise guiding of the dampers is a special construction detail. KURTZ low-pressure casting cells are being employed
more and more, especially in the automotive supply sector. Almost every engine in the premium sector of the car industry is cast with KURTZ systems. 

The expression "every shot must hit the bull's eye" goes above all for the fi eld of rapid-protoyping of parts for the automobile industry. Here the keys to success are dependable quality and deadline dependability. These LP-sand casting systems do not by far look as spectacular as the large systems, but they have got what it takes. The exact correspondence of the rise of the molten metal level with the pre-programmed pressure curve is the most important criterion here. Deviations and vibrations inevitably lead to rejects. The KURTZ control system sets the standards with respect to precision and process safety.

The highest metal quality is achieved through a furnace exchange system. The trend continues to low-pressure casting of castings in sand core packages and sand moulds. Here, above all, the high metal quality and the low turbulence fi lling of the mould are ideally utilized. The process is suited for the small number of pieces of the pilot lot up to an automatable mass production. Here, the metal foundries Steinrücken, Becker CCC and Grunewald can be named as competent partners of KURTZ.

Generally, the target products for aluminium low-pressure casting lie in safety relevant parts, whose highest quality demands are of top priority. These can, for example, be chassis or motor parts. Moreover, the low-pressure casting process is also predestined for pressure tight components with the highest load demands in vacuum technology and hydraulic technology.

That's how KURTZ offers countless individual engineering solutions for low-pressure casting, always faithful to the motto: Everything from one mould!