At New England Castings we view our services as a partnership with our customers. It is our goal to assist you with as much or as little of your part production as you desire or need.

Our services include product design via 3D CAD modeling, alloy selection, specification and construction of appropriate tooling to meet production quantity and part quality requirements, rapid prototyping, production casting, post cast machining, polishing, finishing, marking, welding and product assembly.

While our primary service is shell investment casting, we also provide permanent mold casting, solid mold casting and sand casting in limited production quantities at the present time.

Prototypes -

For your prototype needs we are pleased to offer rapid cast samples in the alloy of your selection for your early product development testing and evaluation prior to the construction of production tooling. In most cases, rapid prototype metal samples can be available in as little as 10 business days from receipt of your 3D CAD data, rapid prototype waxes, SLA part or master sample. If all you have is an idea, our engineering team is able to create all that is required to transform the idea into cast metal parts.

Castings -

The Investment casting process uses an expendable wax pattern in the shape of the desired finished metal part. A new pattern is required in order to produce each casting. The patterns are then assembled to a metal delivery system (sprue) and are repeatedly dipped into ceramic slurries to form a hard refractory shell. Once complete, the shell is heated rapidly to liquefy the wax patterns and the wax is allowed to drain out of the shell. After wax removal, the shell is fired to a high temperature and molten metal is poured into the heated cavity to form the finished metal parts. Once the metal has solidified and cooled considerably, the ceramic shell is removed by vibration, thus exposing the metal parts. The parts are then removed from the sprue system, processed to remove gates and prepared for shipment.

At New England Castings, our primary casting method uses the shell investment process described above; however, for limited production quantities, we also provide solid mold, permanent mold and sand casting services.

Molds -

Our approach to tooling varies with your requirements and budget. Depending upon part size, configuration and quantity of parts specified we offer different methods of tooling construction such as rapid prototypes (no tooling at all), silicon rubber tooling, epoxy tooling, kirksite tooling, machined aluminum and machined steel molds. Much or our tooling is produced in-house; however, we have an extensive network of tool building sources to handle projects of any scale if needed.

Welding -

New England Castings is proud to have 4 certified TIG welders available for your product repairs, sub-assemblies or fabrications. Combined with our other services such as casting, machining, and polishing, our welders offer you yet another option to your part sourcing needs.

Machining -

Through our in-house machining services or through our network of local machining resources, New England Castings is prepared to handle all your post cast machining operations.

Assembly -

Our engineering team has extensive experience in both manual and automated product assembly techniques. New England Castings is pleased to offer services ranging from design for manufacturing and assembly to construction and delivery of subassemblies to your plant.

Finishing -

If your castings arrive at your facility only to be sent out again for finishing operations, why take the extra time, expense and hassles. New England Castings is prepared to have your parts finished to your specification and deliver them to your facility ready for use.