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The ins and outs of a casting director’s process can often be a mystery, but I’m here to break it down for you. As CDs, our job is to collaborate with the filmmakers to bring their project to life by ...

Magnesium alloys are considered to be in the vanguard of advanced materials. They are lightweight, with a density of 1.8 g/cm 3, (approximately two thirds that of aluminium alloys) and have the ...

There are ten basic steps in the investment casting process. 1. A metal die is used to produce an expendable pattern, now almost universally a complex blend of resin, filler and wax. Precision ...

Some die casting machines utilize a pneumatic or hydraulic actuator to fill die molds, and the accompanying pneumatic/hydraulic components are necessary. Vacuum casting operations implement a vacuum ...