Metal: Its many advantages.

Posted in Blog by US Castings

In our Mission Statement, we explain that we at US Castings endeavor to manufacture a better-quality, longer-lasting part. We can make that assessment because we take pride in working with metals.

Metal production has many different advantages over other materials such as plastic. As we said before, some of these advantages are a better quality and long-lasting. Other advantages include:

• Having a higher melting-point than other materials. Plastic, for instance, has really low resistance to elevated temperatures. So, in the case of elevated temperatures, metal is more unlikely to deteriorate.
• Being stronger than their plastic counterpart. If you have a requirement for parts with high structural strength, such as building materials, metals are the only choice. They are also harder and more durable.
• Having a wide variety of production processes, such as welding, forging, casting, chipping, soldering and many more.
• Being cost efficient. Especially when producing larger quantities or many runs of them.
• Contributing to a more circular economy. Metals such as aluminum can be recycled over and over again, which means that can be repurposed and enter the economic cycle once again. Plastic, on the other hand doesn’t have that high of a recycling rate.

If you want to learn more about the metals that we work with or the different production processes that our foundries can do please navigate our website.