Investment casting to produce small stainless steel parts can reduce raw material costs, reduce processing procedures, improve production efficiency, and shorten lead time. Choosing the right investment foundry can magnify these advantages.

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STAINLESS STEEL INVESTMENT CASTING CAPACITIES
Investment casting is suitable for small stainless steel castings production with complex structures and high dimensional and surface precision requirements. After the parts are produced, no machining or only a low amount of processing is required, and they can be used directly after physical or chemical surface treatment. Below, we sort out the OEM capabilities of stainless steel investment casting. Kindly contact our engineers to get a quote.

MANUFACTURING: | According To the Drawings Or Samples |
SERVICE METHOD: | OEM |
MATERIALS:
| Size 200, 301,302, 304, 304L, 316, 316L, Others |
PROCESS:
| Investment Casting with Silica Sol |
WEIGHT: | <=60 kg/piece |
PRODUCTION CAPACITY: | 500 tons/month |
CERTIFICATION: | ISO 9001 |
FINISHING: | Heat Treatment, CNC Machining, Surface Treatment |
MOQ: | 500KG / A Standard Tray |
PROCESS OF STAINLESS STEEL INVESTMENT CASTINGS
When we use investment casting to produce stainless steel parts, we will make process adjustments based on specific requirements based on the following general process. Kindly contact our engineers if you want to know the details of the order production process. They will develop a more suitable solution and quotation according to the drawings and requirements.
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Mold Making
Mold refers to the mold used to produce wax models. This mold is used on a wax pressing machine to mass-produce wax patterns for parts. Materials include aluminum alloy, stainless steel, carbon steel, alloy steel, etc. Determining the mold material based on the order quantity can effectively control costs.
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Wax Model Making & Triming
Mix paraffin, resin, and other materials to make the required wax. Use a wax press to press the wax into a model of the part. After demoulding, the burrs of the wax mold need to be trimmed and placed in water to cool.
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Tree Grouping & Dry
Use a soldering iron or mechanical assembly method to weld the wax model to the pouring system with the pouring port. This process is called a group tree. After assembling the tree, let it sit until the welded joint solidifies.
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Coating Preparation & Dipping
The coating is composed of refractory materials and binders (water glass or silica sol). Before impregnation, the wax tree needs to be deoiled and degreased to improve the adhesion of the paint to its surface. The surface of the wax tree is fully coated with paint.
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Spread Sand
A sand blower will be placed next to the paint bucket, and the wax tree wrapped with the paint will be put into it. After a while, the mold will be covered with sand evenly.
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Drying
Use air drying to dry and harden. After drying and hardening, need Dipping, Spread Sand, and Drying several times until the shell reaches the specified thickness.
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Dewaxing & Roasting
Use high-temperature steam to expel the wax from the mold shell. This results in a molded shell with a cavity ready for pouring. After dewaxing, to make the shell stronger and remove the remaining wax and moisture, we still need to bake it at about 1000°C.
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Metal Smelting & Pouring
When smelting stainless steel, we need to pay attention to the time and amount of adding auxiliary metal. There are also strict requirements for the temperature of the crucible and the time for metal smelting. After the metal smelting is completed, the next step is entered.
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Cleaning
After the casting is cooled, the surface mold needs to be removed, and cutting is used to separate the casting and the gate. The surface residue of the casting is then removed by shot blasting.
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Heat Treatment
Heat treatment is used to improve the internal stress of the casting and adjust its internal structure to obtain parts with special properties. The primary heat treatment methods are softening annealing, normalizing treatment, quenching treatment, surface hardening treatment, and precipitation hardening treatment.
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Finishing & Packaging
The finishing of stainless steel investment castings mainly includes physical methods such as mirror polishing, wire drawing, etc., and chemical methods such as passivation, electroplating, etc. We provide customization services for packaging appearance and materials.
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Delivery & After Service
We support multiple delivery methods to achieve global shipping. Our freight consulting team has rich freight resources and can help you find a better freight company. We will provide comprehensive after-sales service to ensure the quality of orders.
STAINLESS STEEL PARTS HULK METAL CASTS
We have listed some stainless steel parts that have been OEMed. Investment casting can produce small, thin-walled, complex-shaped parts such as turbine blades, golf club heads, gears, door handles, medical tools and equipment, automotive parts, transmission housings, and more. Kindly contact our sales managers for solutions and quotes.
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MORE STAINLESS STEEL CASTING SERVICE
When investment casting cannot meet the production of stainless steel parts, we will use the following casting processes to complete the order. It is mainly used for precision lost foam casting, which is used to produce extra large parts between 1 ton and less than 40 tons, and sand casting, which is used to produce castings with simple shapes and low requirements on appearance and precision.
Stainless Steel Lost Foam Casting
Stainless Steel Sand Casting
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Stainless Steel Lost Foam Casting
Lost foam casting is widely used in large high-precision stainless steel castings because the process of making large models is simpler, and the cost is lower. The castings' surface precision and dimensional accuracy are almost the same as those of investment casting. When we need investment casting for stainless steel castings that require more excellent mold prices and production costs, lost foam casting can be an alternative. We will develop perfect production solutions based on drawings and specific requirements and calculate more competitive prices. Kindly contact our sales manager to obtain them.
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Stainless Steel Sand Casting
The surface accuracy and tolerance of sand castings are much worse than those of investment casting. If you want to meet the standards of investment casting, you need mechanical processing to assist production, which will cause a waste of raw materials, labor, and time. However, the sand casting process is simpler, the production efficiency is higher, and the mold cost is much lower than investment casting. When the shape of stainless steel parts is simple, and the surface quality and dimensional accuracy requirements are not high, such as some stainless steel pipe fittings, valves, and other parts, we will use sand casting to produce them.
VISIT INVESTMENT CASTING FOUNDRY
We present here the tip of the investment foundry iceberg. Kindly contact our sales manager when you want to visit the factory on-site or online. They will give you a detailed introduction to the entire production line.
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Stainless Steel Investment Casting Factory Equipment
Advanced wax pressing equipment, welding equipment, dewaxing equipment, roasting equipment, and pouring equipment allow us to ensure the consistency of finished products, improve the yield, further improve the pass rate of orders, and shorten the lead time of orders.
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Stainless Steel Investment Casting Factory QC Center
The quality control center has spectrometers, metallographic microscopes, hardness testers, and instruments for testing chemical and mechanical properties. Test the various properties of raw materials, liquid metal, semi-finished products, and finished products and issue material and finished product testing reports.
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Stainless Steel Investment Casting Factory Team
Experienced technology, procurement, production, quality inspection, freight consulting, and after-sales teams can provide excellent personalized one-to-one services.
BENEFITS YOU WILL GET FROM HULK METAL.
Here are four main benefits you get when you choose HULK Metal as your stainless steel casting foundry. Of course, in addition to these, we also have other services to make the entire purchasing process more comfortable.
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Get Goods Faster
Through the technical team to plan more reasonable solutions, production scheduling, production, and delivery are more efficient.
Advanced production equipment, experienced worker team, higher order yield, and shorter lead time.
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Higher Quality
Rigorous production processes, production management, and testing processes make quality traceable and controllable, improving the quality of order finishing.
Advanced testing instruments can complete all-round testing of castings and issue complete material and product testing reports. -
Easier Purchase
You can enjoy easier purchasing because our supply chain is deep, from raw material procurement to door-to-door delivery. We can meet any of your requirements within our capabilities and help you save more time and energy costs through comprehensive services. This means you have more time on your hands.
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Better Prices
A complete supply chain gives us the ability to save more costs by improving supply chain efficiency in all aspects. Castings that are in higher demand allow our supply chain to run more efficiently for more extended periods, thus resulting in more excellent cost savings. We will share this revenue with you.


STAINLESS STEEL INTRODUCTION
Here, we briefly introduce some knowledge about stainless steel. Due to space limitations, we cannot give a detailed introduction. You can check out the related articles we have compiled if you want to understand them fully. Kindly contact our engineers if you need stainless steel investment casting services. They will provide complete solutions and quotations.
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Stainless Steel:
It is an alloy steel containing 12% to 30% chromium. Its full name is stainless acid-resistant steel. The origin of this name is that the chromium element will form a powerful and sufficient oxide film on the surface of stainless steel, which prevents oxygen from continuing to react with the metal inside. Stainless steel can still rust if used improperly. Stainless steel can be divided into ferritic stainless steel, austenitic stainless steel, ferrite-austenitic duplex stainless steel, and martensitic stainless steel according to its organizational state.
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Stainless Steel Grade:
Ferritic stainless steel is a stainless steel whose matrix is dominated by a ferrite structure (a phase) with a body-centered cubic crystal structure. It is magnetic and generally cannot be hardened by heat treatment, but cold working can make it slightly. 430 and 446.
Austenitic stainless steel is a stainless steel whose matrix is dominated by an austenite structure (CY phase) with a face-centered cubic crystal structure. It is non-magnetic and is mainly strengthened by cold working (and may lead to certain magnetism) 200 and 300 series.
Ferrite-austenite duplex stainless steel, the matrix has both austenite and ferrite two-phase structures, of which the content of the less phase matrix is generally greater than 15%. It is magnetic and can be strengthened by cold working. 329.
Martensitic stainless steel, a stainless steel whose matrix is martensite structure (body-centered cubic or cubic), is magnetic, and its mechanical properties can be adjusted through heat treatment. 410, 420 and 440.
Application:
304 is one of the most widely used stainless steels. It is suitable for manufacturing deep-drawn formed parts, acid pipelines, containers, structural parts, various instrument bodies, etc. It can also be used to manufacture non-magnetic and low-temperature equipment and components.
The sensitized state resistance of 304L to intergranular corrosion is significantly better than that of 304 stainless steel. The slightly lower strength and other properties are the same as 321 stainless steel. It is mainly used for corrosion-resistant equipment and components that require welding and cannot be solution-treated. It can be used to manufacture various instrument bodies, etc.
316 has good resistance to reducing media and pitting corrosion resistance. In seawater and various other media, the corrosion resistance is better than 304 stainless steel, and it is mainly used for pitting corrosion-resistant materials.
316L stainless steel. Ultra-low carbon steel has good resistance to sensitized intergranular corrosion. It is suitable for manufacturing welded parts and equipment with thick cross-sections, such as corrosion-resistant materials in petrochemical equipment.
HULK Metal also manufactures standardized products such as handrails and guardrails systems, concrete precast accessories, glass clamps, and aluminum-plastic panels.
ARTICLE OF STAINLESS STEEL INVESTMENT CASTING
Here is our roundup of articles about stainless steel investment casting. They can help you better understand stainless steel and investment casting so you can choose a more suitable investment casting factory to complete the order for stainless steel parts. You can also send us the drawings directly, and our sales manager will lead the team to develop a tailor-made solution for you.