Casting definition
Release the part geometry, alloy requirement, casting allowance, and acceptance criteria.
Copper · lost-wax casting
Copper investment
castings.
A specialist investment casting factory runs the lost-wax process. Vango aligns the product, tooling, machining datums, surface finish, and inspection criteria with the customer.
Specialist production managed by Vango
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Who makes it
Specialist production managed by Vango
The foundry runs the investment casting process; Vango manages the released standard and final acceptance.
Quoted as a managed production route
- Material family
- Copper alloys confirmed per RFQ
- Primary process
- Investment casting · lost-wax method
- Secondary work
- CNC machining available where required
- Production
- Qualified specialist foundry
Service scope
What this route covers
Tooling and wax-pattern control
Define the tooling interfaces and approve the pattern and trial route before production.
Secondary CNC machining
Add controlled machined datums, bores, threads, or interfaces when the drawing requires them.
Surface finishing
Release appearance and finishing requirements as part of the same controlled part definition.
Released standard
What Vango controls
- 01
Copper alloy and released drawing
- 02
Tooling, wax pattern, and casting allowance
- 03
Machining datums and post-cast interfaces
- 04
Surface appearance and finishing sample
- 05
Dimensional and visual acceptance criteria
Production route
From requirement to release
- 01
Define the casting
Align alloy, geometry, quantity, machined features, finish, and inspection needs.
- 02
Release tooling
Prepare and approve the tooling and wax-pattern route for trial production.
- 03
Run specialist casting
The selected foundry produces to the released investment casting requirements.
- 04
Machine, finish, and inspect
Complete agreed secondary work and accept the result against the drawing and sample.
- Polishing
- Electroplating
- Painting
- Powder coating
- Sandblasting
- PVD
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Next step
Have a drawing, sample, or production target?
Send the current information. We will confirm the manufacturing route, who performs each process, and what must be defined before quotation.