Investment in Technology

Great Lakes Castings foundry invests heavily in technology to ensure our production process remains innovative and environmentally friendly.

Our investments in technology are critical to our success. Our focus on expanding our castings production equipment allows us to offer our customers engineering services, including pattern design and dimensional layouts.

Plus, our fully-equipped laboratory is capable of metallurgical, chemical, physical and material code specifications.

As you can see, the technology at Great Lakes Castings is the secret to our industry-leading two week lead time, for it allows us to manage our production and process capabilities better than any of our competitors. We pass that efficiency on to our customers.

Recent capital investments and technological improvements include:

• Disa Match 130 Automated Molding Machine
• Roberts Sinto 20"x24" Automated Molding
• Hunter 20"x24" Molding
• Hunter 14"x19" Molding
• Roberts Sinto Barinder Auto–Grinder
• 2013B Disa Automated Vertical Molding Machine
• Didion Drum Shakeout System
• Inductotherm Pressure Pour Furnace with Visi–Pour Tundish Backup
• Pouring with Visi–Pour

Great Lakes Castings foundry believes in applying new technologies to traditional casting processes, are we're committed to making the strategic investments necessary to assure our leading position in the competitive gray iron castings marketplace in the future.

Innovative production processes. Efficient inventory management. Advanced technologies. Great Lakes Castings foundry delivers the iron castings you need, when you need them.

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