Components

The Components unit comprises:

  • Foundry (Lloyds registered)
  • Machine Shop
  • Inventory Department

Main Products & Services

  • Rail and inventory componentry
  • Valve bodies and components
  • Street-ware furniture
  • Smelter industry components
  • Mining industry components
  • Boiler consumables
  • Heat treatment

Capabilities

  • In-house pattern and tooling facility (casting development)
  • Green-sand and hard-sand moulding systems
  • Cast irons (SG, Grey, wear resistant)
  • Cast low and high alloy steels (including manganese and stainless steels)
  • Machining and Fabrication facilities
  • Mechanical and ND Testing
  • Casting pour capacity of 8000kg
Major Resources
  • 5 tonne arc furnace
  • 2 tonne hot heal induction furnace
  • 500 kg high frequency induction furnace
  • Heat treatment and spectrometer capability
  • Lloyd's accredited foundry
  • CAD finite element computer casting solidification modelling (AFS)

Highlights

  • Winner of Casting Technology NZ 'Pride in Casting' Award
  • Turbine casting for ECNZ
  • Fifteen year supplier to Keystone / Tyco
  • NZAS smelter consecutive contracts
  • Research and Development for high temperature casting