126 Collins Road
Richmond, TX 77469
281-342-5511

Primary product

Construction undercarriage castings, locomotive castings, valve castings, construction equipment castings, track products, miscellaneous manganese castings.
Casting weight range 10-12,000 lbs.

Materials produced

Carbon Steel
Carbon-Manganese Steel
Low Alloy Steel
Manganese Steels

Capacity/Month

1400 Tons

Quality System Qualifications

Compliant with a wide variety of industry and customer developed quality systems requirements.

Trade Associations

Steel Founders Society of America (SFSA)

Core Making

Airset cores

Molding Lines

Graphite molding line
Various flask floor molding

Melting

Two Arc furnaces

Pouring:
Bottom pour technology

Cleaning:
Riser/rigging removal and casting contouring:
Air/gas torch
“Arc Air” process
Blast equipment
Four “tumble” units – 2 tons/load each
Three “walk-in” units – 1 ton/load each
One “turntable” unit – 2 tons/load
Steel shot or grit
Finishing and welding operations are organized into “cells”, which process castings with common configurations, customers, and requirements.

Heat Treatment:

Two large “box” type gas-fired ovens:
Accommodates all castings that can be molded
400º to 2400º F
Furnace calibration
Controls – quarterly
Recorders – quarterly
Temperature distribution survey – annual
One quench tank:
Water
8’x16’x8’
Agitation provided by four 50 horsepower pumps
Cooling tower

Welding

All welding procedures qualified in accordance with ASME Section IX.
All welders qualified in accordance with ASME Section IX.
Repair welding processes used:
SMAW
GMAW
GTAW
FCAW
Equipment:
18 constant voltage welding machines
16 constant current welding machines
4 constant voltage or current welding machines
3 high frequency constant voltage welding machines
Nondestructive Examination
All NDE personnel qualified to ASNT SNT-TC-1A (Levels I, II, III).

Radiography

Two MEV Linatron
350 KV x-ray unit

Magnetic Particle Inspection

8 dry MPI machines
4000 amp
6 inch prod spacing
2 wet MPI machines
3 AC/DC MPI yokes
All ferromagnetic material can be inspected
Dye penetrant inspection:
Color contrast method used to inspect non-ferromagnetic materials

Chemical Testing Laboratory

Spectro Labs vacuum optical emission spectrometer with 30 channels covering all major, minor and trace elements of interest. Capable of analyzing all alloy types produced.
LECO model CS-300 carbon and sulfur determinator.
LECO TC-136 nitrogen and oxygen determinator.

Mechanical Testing Laboratory

Tinius Olsen 60,000 lb. Tensile Tester equipped with electronic controls and flat bed recorder.
Tinius Olsen Charpy Impact Tester with 265 ft-lb capacity and related low temperature (to -321ºF) testing equipment.