Travis Pattern & Foundry Your choice for aluminum castings The sand casting process is the use of sand mixed with a binder to produce a mold which is then filled with molten metal to create a cast part. The sand casting process is used to produce parts out of common metals such as aluminum, bronze, and Iron. For more information on bronze, iron, or aluminum castings please contact us: Travis Pattern & Foundry Inc. 1413 E. Hawthorne Road USA Phone:(509) 466-3545 Fax: (509) 467-6465 http://www.travispattern.com/ Tradition meets Innovation Complemenatry to the tradional approach of using wood or foam pattern to produce sandmolds the german foundry Giesserei Blöcher uses state of the art technologies for mold preparation. Such as sandmilling and selective laser sintering. Both methods allow mold preparation purely based on CAD data - without any pattern. The foundry is specialized in single parts and small series. Large molds can be realized using 5-axis high speed mill with maximum dimensions 8000 x 4000 x 2000 mm. Smaller molds or cores upto 700 x 380 x 400 mm per single piece might be prepared with selective laser sintering of sand. Giesserei Blöcher GmbH Zu Wolfskaute 1 35216 Biedenkopf GERMANY Phone: +49 6461 9551-0 Fax: +49 6461 9551-12 http://www.bloecher.de/ See also Wikipedia on the above mentioned technical terms: Sand Casting Selective Laser Sintering