Investment Castings
Located in Chandler, Arizona, Triax’s investment casting operation houses state of the art equipment and technology. Manufacturing Equiax and DS/SC (Directionally Solidified/Single Crystal) castings provides great flexibility and multiple options for our customers. Our staff with 100+ years of experience in investment casting of turbine airfoils ensures on-time deliveries of high quality castings.
Triax's 34,000 sq. ft. Investment Casting Facility is comprised of the following equipment:
- Wax Injection, Inspection and Assembly
- 55-ton MPI Wax Injection Press
- 15 - ton CTD Wax Injection Press
- Wax Engraving: Wax - Ship Casting Traceability
- Automated Shell Manufacturing
- 5 - Axis 300 lb capacity Electro-Pneumatic Robot
- Consistent Programmed Slurry/Stucco Sequence
- 3 - Area Temperature/Humidity Controlled Environment
- Customized DS/SC and Equiax Shelling Processes
- Thermal Operations
- Leeds and Bradford Dewax Boilerclave
- 250 lb capacity EQ Vacuum Induction Casting Furnace
- 250 lb capacity DS/SC Vacuum Induction Casting Furnace
- (2) Casting Preheat - Burnout Furnaces
- In house Vacuum Heat Treating
- Chemical Operations
- Open Kettle KOH core removal system
- Ferric Chloride Etching for Grain Structure
- Anodic Etchant for DS/SC Grain Inspection
- NDT Operations
- PSI-STAR BSR Laue Inspection of Single Crystal Grain Structure
- Fully equipped Fluorescent Penetrant (FPI) inspection
- 450KV Film Radiography (X-ray) inspection
- Flow Systems Air Flow Bench (Hollow Component Flow Testing)
- (2) Brown and Sharpe CMM for dimensional development and inspection
- Certifications
- ISO9001:2008/AS9100 REV. B
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