Company profile

• Enter your core business, main technologies and years of experience
  Our core business is investment casting, process and surface finish with over 30-year-experienece.
• Export rate (% )
  40% for export and 60% for domestic
• Number of employees per department (direct and indirect, production, quality, sales, R&D, purchasing and financial) and number of English speaking persons per department
  Production: 62
  Quality: 3
  Sales: 2 Speacking English: 2
  R&D: 2
• Average volumes manfactured
  25-30 tons/monthly
• Which stainless steel type do you cast?
  Types of alloy poured
  stainless steel, carbon steel, alloy steel, Monel etc
  304, 316, 316L,303, 410, 420J2, 431, 17-4PH, WCB, 8620, SCM440, O2, A2

Manufacturing capabilities - Equipment

• Nb of furnaces and volume capacity
  2 furnces- each 100-120 Kg
• Type of furnaces:
  H.F. INDUCTION FURNACE
• Name of brand
  VIP
• Melting hours
  10 hours
• List your control equipments for chemical analysis
  Chemical composition equipment
• List of equipments for injection/coating/casting
  Wax Injection Machine 2 SET, Dipping Tank 1 SET, Fluid Sand Tank 4 SET
  Heat Treatment Furnace 2 SET, Blasting Machine 8 SET, Grinder 3 SET
  Cutter 3 SET, Argon Welding 2 SET, Dewaxing Furnace 1 SET
  H.F. Induction Furnace 2 SET, CNC Machine 2 SET

Manufacturing capabilities - Machining

• Indicate your machining internal capabilities
  2 sets of CNC machine with 4 axis
• Available Capacity
  lathe, milling , others surface finish
• Capacity of machines:
  CNC 16HR
  MC 8HR

Manufacturing capabilities - Surface treatment & other secondary operations

• Heat treating done on site
  Solid Solution, Normalization, annealing, precipitation hardening
• Heat treating done by vendor
  Quenching and Tempering, Carburization, Carbonitriding
• How often is equipment calibrated?
  per year
• Detail your internal capabilities for cold forming/straightening
  straightening
• Indicate your internal capabilities
  Shot blasting/deburring/grinding
  Shot blasting/ deburring/ grinding
• Surface Treatment / Coating
  electro-plating, electro-polishing, black oxide coating and baking varnish etc.
• Brazing/welding
  Argon welding, electric welding

Inspection & test

• List of inspection equipement
  caliper, 3D CMM, EM-2.5D System, Universal Tensile Tester, Chemical composition, Hardness Tester, Metallurgical Microscope, Surface Roughness Meter, Penetrate inspection, Magnetic particle inspection, Mold flow simulation software etc
• Brand name of equipment used for analysis
  FISONS
• Indicate whether you do leakage tests (Y/N)
  Y
• Indicate your methods of porosity measurement
  X-ray and destructive test
• Is there a Coordinate Measuring machine on site? Model number?
  Yes, CE-450
• To what extent are inspections performed? ( first piece, in-process, final)
  first piece, in-process, final
• How are non comforming parts handled?
  stock separately, scrap for melting
• Metallography
  Microscope 50X~400X
• CMM size
  450*450*250 m/m

Questions on investment casting/ precision casting/ lost wax casting

• What material do you want investment casting made of?
  At C&S we pour molten metal of stainless steel, carbon steel and alloy steel. We currently do not pour aluminum, copper base, or vacuum melt alloys such as titanium.
• How much does your investment casting weigh from the lighter to heavier one?
  The lighter casting weight is approximately 0.03 Kg and heavier one is 50 kg.
  We will review your investment casting and advise if your part is too heavy for us due to extra gating requirements.
• What is the longest dimension on part?
  The longest dimension is 300mm*300mm*300mm. It had ever we done largest one.
• Do you have any if foreign investment castings are acceptable for your application then we are not the correct foundry for you?
  We do not compete with China or Southeast Asia. All our investment castings are made in C&S, Taiwan. We do not import castings.
• Please provide us the detailed information while sending inquiry.
  Here is the information we will need to quote:
  What material do you want part cast out of?

   

  Is the part to be heat treated? If so, is there a hardness requirement? Are there mechanical testing requirements?

   

  What lot quantities of investment castings would you like us to quote? Is this a one time job or a recurring job?
  Base on the customer’s demand, if there is no idea, we might request the minimum quantity for each furnace capacity.

   

  We need as much information about the part as possible. This is a new part? If it is an existing job, how is it currently being made? If it is currently being investment cast why are you looking for new foundry? Is to get better quality, delivery or price?

   

  If this is an existing part, does investment casting tooling currently exist for part. If so any tooling rework or modification will be at customer's expense.

   

  We need drawings of 2D and 3D or samples. The more information we receive the fewer questions we will have to ask before we can quote. Ideally we would like to have:

   

  3D CAD files. We would prefer SolidWorks files. If these are not available then this is the desired order.

   

  1. SolidWorks format

   

  2. STEP format

   

  3. X_T format

   

  4. IGES format

   

  5. STL format

   

  2D drawings. We need these for tolerances. We do make many rapid prototype parts without 2D drawings. But if tolerances are important 2D drawings are a necessity. Note if you only send us a 2D drawing and the dimensions and or tolerances are not legible we will not be able to quote.

   

  Samples if available. This is not a necessity, unless that is all you have, but they can be very helpful during our quoting process

   

  Unless critical dimensions are called out on 2D drawings we will need to know what dimensions are critical and what are not critical.