Buck Company

Average Daily Melt Capacity of 200 tons

Metals Produced

• Malleable Iron - Ferritic and Pearlitic Grades
• Ductile Iron - Grades 60-40-18, 65-45-12, 80-55-06, 100-70-03, ADI
• Austempered Ductile Iron - Grades 1-5
• Gray Iron - Class 25, 30 and 35

Melting Equipment

• Five (5) Coreless Induction Furnaces (6 tons each)

Heat Treating Equipment

• Six (6) Elevator Type Electric Furnaces

Malleable Foundry

• One (1) Hunter XL2024 automatic molding machine. Flask size 20x24 with HLH mold handling system
• One (1) Hunter 2016 B/P automatic flaskless molding machine with a Vulcan mold handling conveyor
• One (1) Hunter HMP-20C 20x24 automatic molding machine with Continumatic mold handling
• Three (3) Hunter HMP 10D automatic molding machines serviced by HV-10 mold handling turn tables
• Jolt-Pin-Lift cope and drag machines with flask sizes of 20x25, 20x40, 18x32 and 18x36

Gray and Ductile Foundry

• One (1) B&P 2016 automatic molding machine
• One (1) Sinto FBO II-SL molding machine with Vulcan Truflo mold handling system
• One (1) Hunter HMP 10D automatic molding machines serviced by HV-10 mold handling turn tables
• One (1) Hunter HMP 20C automatic molding machine. Flask size 20x24, serviced by an HV20 mold handling turntable
• Two (2) Jolt-Squeeze-Pin lift machines with flask sizes of 20x25, 20x40, 18x32 and 18x36

Sand is prepared in a Model 85-B muller and transported to the modling stations by elevator and belt conveyors. Return sand is handled by vibrating conveyors and is processed thru a cooling system before re-processing. Prepared molding sand is controlled continuously by an automatic Hartley controller.

Castings are removed from molds by a rotary sand casting separator.

Cleaning and Grinding

• Four (4) Super-14 shot blast machines
• Three (3) tumbling barrels
• Five (5) finishing cells featuring ten (10) snag grinding units and thirty (30) regrinding units
• One (1) abrasive cut-off machine
• One (1) Foxall robotic grinding machine