Certech, founded in 1970, has been meeting
the needs of the investment casting
industry
with a broad line of complex
injection molded
ceramic components. These ceramic
parts are
used during the investment casting
of turbine
engine blades and vanes for aircraft
and
power generation, aircraft hardware,
pumps,
valves and sporting goods.
Ceramic cores allow the creation of
internal
cavities during the investment casting
process
that are too complex or too small to
be “shelled”.
This allows turbine engine blades and
vanes
to be cast to size with complex cooling
passages,
which allow engines to operate at higher
temperatures with greater efficiency.
Ceramic
cores are used to create undercuts
and hosels
in golf clubs, pump impellers, valve
bodies,
and fuel system mixing components.
In addition to ceramic cores, Certech manufactures silica cores, porous ceramics and various foundry supplies such as pouring filters, cups, snouts, collars, funnels and extruded diameters. Decorative ceramics are also produced, including jewelry, picture frames and ornaments.
Certech manufactures these products from
facilities in:
Certech manufactures these products using
a proprietary low-pressure injection molding
process and a proprietary firing process,
which have been specifically designed with
high volume and short lead-time in mind.
This allows Certech to generate sample volumes
as quickly as five days, and routinely produce
production volumes with a two-week lead-time.
Another advantage of this the proprietary
Certech process is that it is extremely low
wear, allowing hardened steel dies to routinely
produce in excess of 100,000 cores.
