About Alcumet and Investment Casting

At Alcumet, we work with aluminum investment castings

every day, so sometimes it's easy to forget how much history it truly has. Have you ever been interested in how investment casting and lost investment casting is done? Or how "manufacturers" centuries before us created the tools, machines, and instruments that eventually revolutionized our world? Well-- at the heart of a lot of it is investment casting-- or its predecessor, Lost Wax Investment casting.

Investment casting is one of the oldest known metal forming techniques, developed more than 5,000 years ago. Back then, beeswax was used to form the pattern. Today however we've developed much more advanced ways to get our customers the investment casting they need for things like components for the aerospace industry, investment castings for firearms manufacturers such as triggers and hammers, and investment-cast parts for medical, commercial and automotive industries.

Investment metal casting is usually used for small parts, but we are capable of producing both large and complex aluminum and steel castings that would be difficult or even impossible for die casting. Another added benefit is the fact that investment casting requires little surface finishing and only minor machining.

When industries need low cost fabrication, as an investment castings manufacturer, we like to look back on the rich history of investment castings and deliver the best results that our experience and 5,000 years of technological innovation can offer.

Aerospace Casting

You might be aware of the rigorous testing that goes into manufacturing something as monumental as an aircraft. Using our experience with aluminum investment castings, Alcumet incorporated has made it a point to provide reliable aerospace components for manufacturers across the country.

Military Casting

We always perform investment casting with the attitude that it needs to be done with a level of precision only we can provide. but when it comes to investment castings for the military our expertise is utilized not only to provide the components that are parts of the whole, but military grade investment castings that can be relied on in the field-- no matter what the conditions are.