It is important to identify not only what your chosen Foundry’s costs are during the casting process but also what costs might be included before anything has even touched the Furnace. So much of your Foundry’s raw material cost will be down to supply chain and local scrap availability. Local Scrap and Supply Chain – Check for Kinks Make sure to partner with a Foundry that will remain in business for as long as you will be requiring your castings, so be reasonable on price when finding your best Foundry partner. Or at least, modifying existing patterns to suit another Foundry’s moulding equipment. If your Foundry goes out of business, you are likely to face a large expense from new patterns at a new Foundry. When negotiating the purchase of castings from any Foundry do not expect your product to be supplied at cost. For example, for order volumes over 1 metric tonne you should choose a Foundry geared for medium and high economies of scale, ideally with a Furnace 500 kg or larger. It is essential to ensure that the Foundry you have chosen is right for your requirements. You will be wasting crucial capital on both their Furnace’s power and casting yield. Let us say you have a casting order requirement that’s less than 100 kg, but the Foundry you are currently working with accommodates for Medium to Large Scale Casting. Before we gear up for the more well-known costs of metal casting, there are a few considerations you may not have thought about. But by simply expanding on your knowledge on Metal Casting, well, you will have already started the process of evaluating costs and benefits. Factors like Alloy selection, moulding/finishing processes, core requirements, supply terms… to get the most value for your money, all of these need to be understood. No matter your knowledge base, there is a lot to understand – on both your end and the Foundry’s. Buying metal castings is not always straight forward.
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