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When considering issues of quality, consistency, and affordability, casting is often the superior choice. Forging, fabricating, welding or machining parts often fall short of expectations in one or more of these areas. Few companies know more about casting than “Apollo”. In the past decade, we have invested more than $100 million in new plants, foundries, and technologies. We have pioneered the latest lean practices and pull manufacturing techniques, expanding our capability as a dependable partner for OEMs.
Bronze casting division
Our 85,000-square foot bronze casting facility in Pageland, South Carolina offers sand castings produced on high-speed automated match plate molding machines. Our brass foundry was the first to use a PLC- controlled autopour with a heated vessel that incorporated a stopper rod system to control the pour. This technology is now a standard in the copper-based casting industry.
Our foundry offers every aspect of brass casting, from pattern making on our CNC machining centers to high-speed trimming of castings on our trim die machines. Our facility is also ISO-registered and meets all EPA regulations. We have both a well-appointed sand lab and a metal lab with spectroanalysis capabilities, assuring the quality of the casting we produce.
| Available alloys | ASTM |
|---|---|
| C83600 | ASTM B584 |
| C84400 | ASTM B584 |
C89836 (Lead Free) | ASTM B584 |
Steel & alloy casting
Our 170,000-square foot steel and alloy casting center in Conway, South Carolina offers investment casting as well as air-set production. It yields high-quality, near net shape castings. Among the most advanced foundries in the world, this ISO 9001 registered facility meets all EPA regulations. It’s equipped with a $1.5 million dust collection system and $2.5 million computer-driven conveyor network.
Investment casting can produce parts as heavy as 150 pounds from molds as large as 2 feet x 2 feet x 2 feet (including gating). Our air-set (no-bake) line is capable of high-volume production of components weighing nearly a ton and castings up to 45 inches x 50 inches x 30 inches (including gating).
| Available Specialty Alloys | ASTM |
|---|---|
| C83600 | ASTM B584 |
| C84400 | ASTM B584 |
| C89836 (Lead Free) | ASTM B584 |
| C83600 | ASTM B584 |
| C84400 | ASTM B584 |
| C89836 (Lead Free) | ASTM B584 |
| C83600 | ASTM B584 |
| C84400 | ASTM B584 |
| C89836 (Lead Free) | ASTM B584 |
| C83600 | ASTM B584 |
| C84400 | ASTM B584 |
| C89836 (Lead Free) | ASTM B584 |
| C83600 | ASTM B584 |
| C84400 | ASTM B584 |
| C89836 (Lead Free) | ASTM B584 |
Tooling capabilities
The best casting begins with the best tooling. At Apollo, we offer the design engineering know-how and equipment to meet all of your tooling requirements. Our advanced mold shop provides rapid prototyping. Our technical experts can develop mold designs from a variety of input sources, including your prints, IGES, DXF, or solid model files. Apollo’s tooling capabilities include…
- Urethane Tooling
- Mahogany Masters
- Surfcam CAD/CAM
- CNC and Manual Machines
- Diesink EDM Machine
- True Three-Axis Hurco
- Vertical CNC Mill
- Feeder CAD Gating program
Our tooling services are available even if we don’t do your casting.
| Available Specialty Alloys | ASTM |
|---|---|
| C83600 | ASTM B584 |
| C84400 | ASTM B584 |
| C89836 (Lead Free) | ASTM B584 |
| C83600 | ASTM B584 |
| C84400 | ASTM B584 |
| C89836 (Lead Free) | ASTM B584 |
| C83600 | ASTM B584 |
| C84400 | ASTM B584 |
| C89836 (Lead Free) | ASTM B584 |
| C83600 | ASTM B584 |
| C84400 | ASTM B584 |
| C89836 (Lead Free) | ASTM B584 |
| C83600 | ASTM B584 |
| C84400 | ASTM B584 |
| C89836 (Lead Free) | ASTM B584 |
