Full Service Foundry

Producing the most complex engineered castings in the world.

Complex Castings, End-To-End Solutions.

DELIVERING SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE IN MISSION-CRITICAL SOLUTIONS.

Leveraging our sophisticated manufacturing processes, extensive experience with heavy-section, high-specification steel castings, and unwavering focus on customer satisfaction, we engineer and deliver solutions that exceed our customers' most demanding casting and machining requirements.

Industry Leading Supplier

Our custom casting capabilities help improve productivity for customers in a number of industries including Rail, Military, Heavy Equipment, Oil & Gas, Power Generation and Other Specialized Markets.

From engineered concept to finished product

Foundry Capabilities

Vulcan Metals mandates that all facilities are equipped to process castings to the highest industry standards. Our manufacturing plants employ highly skilled personnel and world-class equipment, ensuring every task meets the most exacting specifications.

Experience

  • Metallurgists (wide range of difficult alloys)
  • Weld engineers (over 450 different welding procedures)
  • Pattern craftsman

Materials

  • Superior AOD refined materials
  • Over 130 customer engineered alloys
  • Proprietary alloys

Foundry Process Engineering

  • Fabrication to casting conversion
  • Forging to casting conversion
  • Improved castability and performance

Analysis

  • Dynamic simulation analysis
  • Fatigue analysis
  • Chemical Analysis

Customer-Centric Technical Expertise

Vulcan Metals is a full service steel foundry

We understand the complex casting market, and speak our customers' technical language.  

Our workforce includes:

  • Skilled foundry process engineers who understand critical cast components.
  • Teams of quality personnel and metallurgists that provide in-depth technical analysis of all specifications, ensuring critical parameters are met.
  • Experienced molders, melt crews and finishers who process the components guided by workflow travelers throughout the plant.
  • Skilled NDT and ASNT certified inspectors who ensure the components comply with all defined specifications.
  • Weld Engineers and Certified ASME Section IX welders who ensure that upgrading is performed with precision.

CAST MATERIALS - STEEL, PROPRIETARY, & SPECIALTY

Steel up to 55,000 LBS & Iron up to 8,000 LBS

  • Carbon steel
  • Low and High Alloy Steel – Ferritic and Martensitic
  • Stainless Steel including Duplex Stainless Steel
  • Austenitic Steel
  • Iron-chromium-nickel-molybdenum
  • Corrosion-resistant Steels and Irons
  • Specialty Irons
  • Market-specific steels for Military - NAVSEA HY80 and HY100
  • Market-specific steels for Off-shore - Proprietary specifications for structural oil tool and sub-sea

MELT, HEAT-TREATMENT, & QUENCH

  • Large Arc Furnaces
  • AOD Refining
  • Coreless Induction Melting Furnaces
  • Heat-treatment normalizing, stress relieving, stabilization, heat soak, annealing, air & water quench and temper