Cast for your company

Cast for your company

Modern foundry technology, best quality, and forward-looking technology

Company founded in 1775. KOLBUS Foundry since 1877

In the foundry, we produce customised products for mechanical engineering and other industrial sectors. We are experts in ferrous-based casting, producing high-quality castings in a wide range of industries for over 145 years. We'll cast anything from single pieces to small production runs and we can offer you the expertise and all-round support of 60 highly skilled employees committed to delivering quality for our customers.

We are pleased to announce that we have an impressive production capacity of 3,500 tonnes per year. This allows us to meet the demands of a wide range of industries and customers who require high-quality castings for their products. We take pride in offering custom solutions tailored to each client's specific needs, with 80% of our production dedicated to these bespoke castings.

Foundry

From simulation to optimised casting

Our iron casting specialists will help you with design decisions, material selection, component design for casting, and during development with casting and solidification simulations.

 

Casting database

An advanced production tracking system precisely coordinates the progress of every component, resulting in highly transparent and cost-effective processes. With the help of the KOLBUS casting database, our ERP system, an in-house development of the existing software, visualises the entire production process. We would be pleased to talk to you about quality management, and our production and offer you an insight into modern mechanical engineering.

Hardening model

Our range of foundry services

  • Support and analyses for choice of materials and processes for successful product designs 
  • Heat treatment/painting
  • Optimum design guidance through simulation of the casting process
  • Further value-added processing in our machining shop for our customers

Modern model storage capacities with direct access

  • We maintain a stock of 11,500 models which are immediately available
  • Highest casting iron quality for various industries
  • Production capacity of ›good castings‹ is 3,500 t per year
  • 80% are custom castings for a wide variety of industries, and 20% of foundry production is used in-house

Dennis Barg

Head of Cast Sales

Phone    +49 5771 71-214  
Mobile    +49 176 30071214
E-Mail    dennis.barg(at)kolbus.de

Dennis Barg
  • Cast Material
  • Hand moulding
  • Machine moulding
  • Lab facilities
  • Download
Cast iron with flake graphite          
Designation to DIN 1691 GG-20 GG-25 GG-30 GG-alloyed  
European standard DIN EN 1561 EN-GJL-200 EN-GJL-250 EN-GJL-300 EN-GJL-alloyed

Special alloy for sheaves and pulleys (e.g. lifts/elevators)

Cast iron with spheroidal graphite          
Designation to DIN 1693 GGG-40 GGG-50 GGG-60 GGG-70 GGG-alloyed
European standard DIN EN 1593 EN-GJS-400-15 EN-GJS-500-7 EN-GJS-600-3 EN-GJS-700- EN-GJS-alloyed
Melt facilities          
Induction furnaces/mid-frequency electric furnaces capacity 2 t/h          

 

Dimensional limits for castings  
Max. width: 2,500 x 2,700 mm
Max. length: 4,000 mm
Max. volume: 1,500 x 3,000 x 500 mm
Part weights  
EN-GJL (GG) 0.5 – 2,300 kg
EN-GJS (GGG) 0.5 – 1,400 kg
21 t/h continuous mixer
Furan resin sand
 

 

System  
BMD Dynapulse moulding machine Bentonite/quarz sand
Dimensional limits for castings max. 600 x 600 x 200 mm
Part weight max. 100 kg
Dye penetrant testing Brinell hardness testing Magnetic particle method
Dimensional testing  Metallography Spectral analysis
Ultra sound Tensile testing X-ray
Coordinate measuring machine (CMM)    

Oliver Buchmann

Head of Foundry Technology

Phone +49 5771 74-420
Mail oliver.buchmann(at)kolbus.de

 

 

Oliver Buchmann
Foundry employees
Casting mould is filled
Casting mould is filled
Furnace in the foundry