Technical Specifications

We manufacture more than 8,000 part numbers for more than 200 of the country’s leading manufacturers, respected for quality and trusted for reliability. Our capabilities can help you consolidate to one foundry and elevate the consistent quality of your castings.

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Molding Department

Three different sized molding machines means the ability to adapt tooling from most other foundries.

  • Beardsley & Piper automatic molding machine (16 x 20)

  • Roberts-Sinto automatic molding machine (14 x 19)

  • Roberts-Sinto automatic molding machine (20 x 28)

Coreroom

Both cold-box and hot-box core-making to handle a variety of core design and quality requirements.

  • No-bake

  • Shell

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Melting Facility

Two continuous melting furnaces means enough iron is always available.

100 tons/day available in:

  • Two 4-ton coreless furnaces

Finishing

A variety of grinding wheel sizes plus robotic grinding to finish raw castings to your requirements. Additional inspection and verification also available.

  • Three shot blast machines

  • Grinding stations in 30-inch, 14-inch, and 10-inch wheel sizes
  • Two Foxall Robotic Grinders
  • Small tool de-burring
  • Gaging inspection available

  • Borescope inspection

  • Painting by an outside facility available
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Pattern Shop

Designing and building your tooling to meet your specifications and budget. Available in:

  • Wood
  • Urethane Plastic
  • Aluminum
  • Existing tooling adaptation and repair

  • Engineering assistance for casting design

  • Mold flow and solidification simulation

  • CAD data exchange software

Laboratory Facilities

Complete laboratory to provide chemical and physical certification of our iron.

  • Chemical analysis of iron via spectrograph

  • Mechanical testing

  • Sand testing

  • Hardness testing

  • Complete certifications available

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Quality Control Program

Kirsh puts quality first. Always.

  • First piece dimensional soundness and metallographic inspection

  • Statistical process control on key manufacturing elements

  • Computer-generated written process instructions for all casting operations

  • Digital video and imaging used with process instructions

  • Complete document control

  • ISO 9001:2015 Certified

Materials

Kirsh pours the following types of cast iron.