Austin Alloy Cast Pvt. Ltd. is equipped with state-of-the-art infrastructure and facilities required for oil and gas investment castings. Testing lab, environment compliant manufacturing and ability to deliver in time makes Austin Alloy Cast leading supplier for investment casting components for European and North American oil and gas companies. What really sets us apart is our Team’s experience of handling a wide range of Steel alloys especially Nickel-based alloys and Duplex Steels.

Sourcing engineered components like investment castings and component suppliers for food processing, earth moving, oil and gas, medical and general engineering is a huge challenge. It becomes even more challenging when the components from two or more manufacturers look similar. Many times, two different products look similar visually but there are differences you can’t find through your naked eyes.

What defines the difference in two similar looking components?
The investment casting process is employed similarly across the globe. When it comes to differentiating between Investment Casting companies, the stand-out factors are testing facilities at manufacturing units, consistent quality and capacity to manage uncontrolled parameters.

Most of the manufacturers outsource quality testing from other service providers. Not having a testing facility at the manufacturing unit leads to delay in the manufacturing process and defects in cast components manufactured. One of the other issues industries worldwide face is that they don’t get consistent quality products supplied in each lot. You may have faced situations like when the samples provided are perfect but consignments delivered are not up to the mark. For many OEMs it’s extremely challenging to maintain consistency in Investment Casting parts. Casting companies with a strictly controlled and monitored environment can manufacture components with consistent quality. Tolerance factor, surface finish, lower dimensional accuracy and cost are some uncontrolled parameters which some OEMs have ability to control.

Austin Alloy Cast Pvt. Ltd. is leading investment casting manufacturers in India with capabilities to supply their products in Europe, North America, APAC & South America. Following featured facilities at Austin Alloy Cast Pvt. Ltd. make their investment casting components of world class quality.

Non-destructive Testing:
○ Dye Penetrant Testing
○ Magnetic Particle Inspection
○ Radiography Testing
○ Ultrasonic Testing
○ CMM

In-house NDT testing facilities like Radiography makes us less dependent on outside vendors for our testing requirements and help achieve our motto of Unmatched Customer Service by Consistent Quality and Exceptional Delivery Performance.

Skilled workers:

250+ skilled workers with years of experience and a management team with a lifetime of experience in the Investment Castings manufacturing.

Strictly controlled and monitored environment at different stages of the process including parameter tracking and control at Wax Injection, Coating & Drying, De-Waxing, Melting & Pouring, Heat Treatment, Fettling and Quality Inspection.

Gas crisis in Europe has created tension for foundries, their employees and customers. Due to gas crunch, many investment casting foundries and components manufacturers in Europe see the looming future of their businesses.

Manufacturing any kind of components (including components for oil & gas, food processing, heavy & earth moving, marine and general engineering) is energy intensive in nature.

A lot of electricity is consumed to run foundries especially for the melting process. Moreover, the investment casting process is followed by melting the metal. Casting process is one of the time taking processes and requires a proper environment. Air conditioned environment in the investment section catalyses the casting process and helps achieve the desired output. Now, making the environment air conditioned at the foundry means a lot of energy consumption.

Current scenario with industries connected to gas and energy requirements does not seem to improve in the short run. Germany, Italy, Netherland, France & Poland are amongst top importers of Gas from Russia and Russia now has indefinitely halted the gas supplies to Europe. Furthermore, The Nord Stream pipeline has been damaged recently, which makes it even more uncertain on when the gas supply will resume. This has caused not only an energy or gas crunch but also a hike in the prices. The foundries manufacturing components have to pay significantly higher energy bills than they paid earlier. Many foundries are on the verge of shutting down their business and others are reducing their production to half.

Effect of the gas crisis is on multiple levels for the European industries. One, there is a price hike and another is shortage of supply of investment casting and other metal components

European countries are working to innovate on the power generation techniques including usage of hydrogen as well as switching to thermal power plants. This inventive measure is time taking and takes years. Britain has started licensing oil and gas to boost domestic supply. But, licensing will not help reduce energy bills.

Procuring investment casting processes from countries like India and maintaining inventory of components in the home country is one of the best ways to regulate the situations for European countries. Now it is the inflexion point, where higher energy bills + higher wages (due to inflationary pressures) in Europe will outweigh Logistics cost from India + inventory carrying cost.

The reason to procure the process from India is the geo-political stability, shorter shipping distance than other Asian countries and cost effective prices.

With the suggested solution the industries will be able to minimise disruptions in their production schedules. Well planned inventory cycle with the right ordering process and production phase according to the cycle can help you manage and regulate the crisis without any effects of the gas crisis

Austin Alloy Cast investment casting company in India offers cost-effective and high quality investment casting solutions to European and North America companies.

Investment casting is a 6000 years old process which is still being used in evolved form by industries worldwide. The parts manufactured by this process have a wide variety of applications ranging from basic and simple products like door handles to auto parts and complex components of industrial machinery. Wherever you see metal components with perfect finishing, no wonder it might be made using the investment cast process.

Investment casting process can achieve accurate design with consistency and repeatability. Therefore there are investment casting manufacturers scattered across the globe. Initially investment casters were concentrated in North America and Europe but over time globalisation opened up doors to low cost country (LCC) sourcing.

Like every other industry affected by the pandemic, the investment casting supply chain also faced issues due to increased processing time at ports. This led to higher lead time, higher inventory carrying cost and disrupted production schedule. Depending on a single country for all your investment casting requirements turned out to be a less resilient supply chain. Supply chain diversity by dual country sourcing is now the solution. Sourcing the manufacturing process from reliable countries like

India’s favourable and stable economic policy is making it a reliable sourcing destination for global companies.

Austin Alloy Cast’s commitments towards unmatched customer service by CONSISTENT Quality and EXCEPTIONAL Delivery Performance is making us a preferred partner in the investment casting manufacturing value chain.

With the current ongoing situation of Trade War between countries, the scenario is less likely to improve in the short term. Western companies are increasingly trying to reduce dependency on China sourcing. Meanwhile, Russia-Ukraine conflict has led to rising power costs across Europe forcing foundries and forge shops to cut production. Amidst all the uncertainties, India is turning out to be a favourable sourcing destination for investment cast components requirements.

India has the manufacturing eco-system to fulfil this supply chain void. Indian investment casting houses can simplify your supply chain by delivering fully finished and ready to use components.

Globalisation opened doors to best cost countries (BCC) sourcing but along with it came logistical risks. Covid-19 cracked open the fault lines of global trade. A purchasing manager well aware about these risks would mitigate it by creating a dual sourcing strategy.

As for the investment casting industry, India can be the best alternative route for the supplies of components. Be it oil and gas, food processing, heavy and earth moving equipment, marine and general engineering, India investment casters have capability to supply high volume components as well as castings upto 150 kgs weight per piece.

North American buyers of investment casting can realise significant cost savings bypassing the high tariff rates levied on Chinese imports. India has the capability to fill this vacuum.

To sum it up, India will emerge as the investment castings manufacturing hub. Look no further than Austin Alloy Cast for high quality cost effective investment casting solutions. With one of the largest manufacturing facilities at a single location in India we are ready to serve you.