Other Industries Served

Sand Casting

By serving the Precision Investment Casting industry for many years, we have seen a considerable amount of overlap with the Sand Casting industry.  While Sand Casting and Precision Investment Casting are similar, the differences lie in how the mold is prepared.  Sand casters create a “master” out of wood, metal or other robust materials and then press that master into two separate halves of a mold filled with sand.  Sand casters utilize waxes, binders, hot toppings and abrasives such as carbide burs and mounted points.  They also utilize rapid prototyping equipment and material to visualize new parts or make quick masters.

Rapid Prototyping • Waxes • Refractory Grains & Flours • Crucibles & Laddle Liners • Abrasives

Metal Powder Production

Through our long relationship with Alcoa Investment Casting & Forged Products (formerly Howmet), we have been introduced to the world of metal powder production.  This high-tech industry consumes crucibles, nozzles and tundishes for its molten metal needs.  The metal-powder is created to help ensure uniformity of material properties throughout the manufacturing process.

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Continuous Casting

Again through relations with the Howmet Corporation, we have supplied continuous casters with crucibles, nozzles and tundishes – typically made of zirconia.  The continuous caster is making sheets, beams or rods of certain alloys (usually aluminum, copper and sometimes steel) that undergo further fabrication.  The actual process of continuous casting is simply forcing molten metal through an open-ended mold.

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Sputtering Targets

This ever-growing industry  and the related thin-film industry supplies the wafers and sputtering targets for use in many common and nearly essential items, such as hard-drives, flat-panel televisions, medical implants, integrated circuits and plenty of other micro-electronic devices.  Products used are crucibles, nozzles and tundishes to make these micro-sized alloy parts.

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Wafer Polishing

The process of polishing an ultra-thin crystalline silicone wafer requires only the highest quality materials.  Polishing sols, such as SYTON-HT50, remove the microscopic defects on the surface.  These polished wafers are used in a variety of applications including microelectronics, photonics, optics, acoustics, and many others.

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Bone Ash

The majority of Bone Ash is consumed by the Primary and Milled Products segments of the aluminum industry. It is for this reason REMET is distributing Aluminum Grade Bone Ash for these specific industries.

Bone Ash is prepared by burning the organic material from animal bones and has long been recognized by the non-ferrous metals casting industry as a mold release agent offering a number of benefits unmatched by competitive products.

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Ceramic Shape Manufacturing

REMET has been helping customers make ceramic shells/molds for over 30 years, so supplying materials for the manufacturing of ceramic shapes was a natural extension.  REMET has great technical depth in making ceramics and binders work well together.  This market consists of several smaller markets including manufacturers of riser sleeves, kiln furniture, pouring cups, filter boxes, furnace linings, fiber board and block, fiber fire logs, etc.  These various industries all require the ceramic building materials along with the binders to form the shapes. In addition, some utilize rapid prototyping to design new products quickly.

Binders • Refractory Grains & Flours