In order to cater variety of market segments, We at AIW produce prototype castings of different varieties using 3D printed cores/moulds.
The castings are made in shortest record time to support customer requirement. Our foundry setup consists of 3 foundries located at different locations.

Three Foundry Facilities

Ashok Iron Works – Plant I
Ashok Iron Works – Plant II
Ashok Iron Works – Plant III

These 3-foundry setup enable us to cater industry with variety of products equipped with different technologies, sizes & volumes. Our all foundries have suitable infrastructure for the wide & varying range of product requirements, which give us capacity to generate high level quality at optimal costs. Induction melting, Spectrometer, lab facilities, cold box technology for core manufacturing and finishing the set up are used across the foundries with adequate level of automation to suit with the modern manufacturing process. Our Project Engineering Teams work continuously towards efficiency to improve and adopt the latest technology to keep driving the foundries towards excellence.

Ashok Iron Works Plant-I:

Plant-I is a Green Sand Foundry having capacity of 20,000 tons per annum with 4 jolt squeeze moulding lines, manufacturing medium volume Grey & SG Iron Transmission Housings, Engine Blocks and other castings products. These products have a weight range of 20 kgs to 150 kgs per piece. Furthermore, Plant-I has a nobake floor moulding line for manufacturing the castings up to 500 kgs per piece.

Ashok Iron Works Plant-II:

Plant-II is a No bake Sand Foundry with capacity of 25,000 tons per annum having fast loop and floor moulding lines, manufacturing low & medium volume Grey, Alloyed Grey & SG Iron heavy duty Engine Blocks, Heads & Housings. These products have the weight range of 20 kgs to 2500 kgs per piece. The uniqueness of the set-up is made in such a way that the sand used for core making is 100% thermally reclaimed. Today, Ashok Iron Works Plant-II is the largest producer and market leader in the Heavy-duty Engine Blocks & Heads segment in India. The foundry specializes in manufacturing of the number of V type Engine Blocks weighing up to 2500 kgs per piece in Grey & SG Iron.

Ashok Iron Works Plant-II takes the pride of manufacturing the most complex 6 Cylinder Engine Head weighing 170 kgs which is one of its kind in India. Our large core shooting machines with 150 litre capacity and moulding lines create high-quality dense cores with low porosity, followed by robotic grinding. The precision and correct finishing accomplished with Robotic Grinding helps mainly in strong reproducibility and minimising rejection.

Ashok Iron Works Plant-III:

Ashok Iron Works Plant-III is a Green Sand Automated Foundry has the capacity of 72000 tons per annum with the high-pressure moulding line, manufacturing high & medium volume Grey Iron Engine Blocks, Heads & Transmission Housings. At, Plant-III we manufacture products with the weight range from 20 kgs to 270 kgs per piece.

Ashok Iron Works Plant-III is one if largest facility among Ashok Iron Group’s all plants. The Infrastructure is sprawled over 1.2 lakh square feet where The shop floor an aptly designed built up of a 42369 sq metre. The huge facility has a state-of-the-art high-pressure moulding line, production lines with latest technology, dedicated departments, conference rooms and training rooms. A spacious and ambient canteen adds to the desirability of the entire workplace.

To match the future demand of intricate thin wall engine blocks Ashok Iron Group has the state-of-the-art Loramendi core cell and Kunkel Wagner high pressure moulding line with high performance.

Kunkel Wagner:Automatic High Pressure Moulding Line with Twin Press

  • Twin Press Moulding Machine
  • Mould Box size- 1300 X 1000 X 450/450 mm
  • Line speed- 90 MPH
  • Sand Plant- 150 TPH
  • Capacity- 60000 TPA

The Loramendi Core line – Engine Block Core Cell with Robotics

  • 4 machine cell.
  • Machine size –
  • 1750 X 1250 mm – 2 nos.
  • 1300 X 1100 mm – 1 no.
  • 1100 X 900 mm – 1 no.
  • Water jacket in cold box process
  • Capacity – 1000 blocks Per Day
  • Core assembly & paint dipping with Robots

Fettling Automation at Ashok Iron Group

  • DS1 Manipulator Type Shot Blasting Machine to shake out hot casting for safe simple handling.
  • Decoring Machine
  • Robo grinding
  • Painting Line
  • Conveyorized movement of Castings

Spectrometry Lab:

High-tech spectrometer lab, fully equipped with latest testing equipment’s gives us precised control required for tensile, hardness and other tests. We use intensive sand mixer and controller with computerized control to measure Sand properties like strength & moisture level which helps to control the sand’s compaction, wetness, and strength.

Summary of Foundries Business Parameters

Facility Parameters Plant – I Plant – II Plant – III
Capacity (TPA) 18000 30000 72000
Box Size (mm) 1200 x 800 x 380 /380 2800 x 1400 x 680 /680 1300 x 1000 x 400 / 400
Casting Weight (Kg) 20 ~ 200 20 ~ 3000 20 ~ 270
Material Grade Grey Iron Grey & SG Iron Grey Iron
Components Cylinder Blocks & Housings Cylinder Blocks ,Heads & Hsgs Cylinder Blocks, Heads & Hsgs
Moulding

Jolt Squeeze Moulding
ARPA 1300 – 2 Lines
ARPA 900- 2 Lines

No Bake – Automatic
Fast Moulding Loop .
Thermal Reclamation
Sand Plant
High Pressure Kunkel
Wagner Moulding Line with Twin Press
Melting MF Induction Furnace MF Induction Furnace MF Induction Furnace
Core Shop Shell Core & Cold Box Shooters Shell Core & Cold Box Shooters Loramendi Cyl Block Cell
Laboratory Spectrometer, Full Fledged Facility Spectrometer, Full Fledged Facility Spectrometer, Full Fledged Facility