Consolidated Engineering Company (CEC), Kennesaw, Ga., has received a purchase order for a continuous roller hearth T6 system with a water quench and age oven from an aluminum casting company in the United States. The system is designed for the heat treatment of cast aluminum knuckles and other automotive castings. The company is a rapidly growing foundry business that has been consistently winning automotive orders .
High pressure die casting, in which molten aluminum is injected into a metal die, now accounts for more than half of all aluminum castings worldwide. This manufacturing method has been shown to be particularly suitable for making complex parts for automobiles. These castings are often used as sheet or extrusion connectors to tie together portions of all-aluminum car spaceframes (chassis), which are finding broader application in high-end cars.
CEC manufactures solutionizing furnaces for all types of castings, forgings, extrusions and tubing, and has extensive experience in heat treating castings. To date, CEC’s T4 & T6 installations process more than 57 million aluminum cylinder heads, engine blocks, and wheels every year. CEC has invented and developed solution heat-treatment machine innovations and processes that have generated more than 105 patents.
To develop and optimize processes, more than 6350 CEC sponsored or funded casting tests have been run to prove process innovations. The corporate focus is to save operating costs and pollution while improving product quality. CEC invented and remains the world leader in trayless and basketless head, block, and wheel casting processing.
