Casting Metallurgy and Process Technology, LLC (CMPT) is a US based consulting company specializing in the metals industry with focus to foundries, castings and heat treat. Particular expertise is with foundry process improvement and cost reduction with the ultimate goal of producing a better quality casting at a lower cost. The focus is to provide casting expertise to foundries manufacturing castings but also to those companies that fabricate, specify, design, procure and use castings. Consultancy projects are targeted to the following:
Castings: Defect characterization, understanding and elimination
Education and Training: Making foundries and OEM's aware of casting issues and understanding limitations of specifications
Foundry Process Optimization: All processes are reviewed to ensure that they are optimum for the type of casting
Heat treatment: Development of heat treatment procedures to meet hardness, mechanical and corrosion properties with low risk of cracking or dimensional distortion
Metallurgy: Optimizing chemistry for ease of processing castings, for mechanical property achievement and for performance of castings
Non Destructive Evaluation: Development of innovative procedures to detect and evaluate casting defects
Welding: Creation of weld procedures to meet mechanical properties with low risk of defects
Our typical client profile includes Foundries, Original Equipment Manufacturers OEM's, Engineering Companies, Heat Treaters, Fabricators, Machine Shops and Metal Supply Companies.
Casting Metallurgy and Process Technology is truly a global service company with business conducted in North and South America, Europe, Asia and South Africa. The diversity of recent consulting projects includes:
Metallurgist and technical director for several foundries
Casting supplier evaluation for OEM's
Process audits and process optimization for foundries
Quality audits of foundries
Technical resource to companies specifying castings
Casting specification development for major crane manufacturer
Weld procedure development for heavy fabricator and for foundries
Metallurgist for heat treat company
Project Manager for high visibility project
Non destructive testing procedures - qualification and application
Expert witness in casting and foundry related cases