OREANDA-NEWS. November 20, 2009. The 100th ton of cored wire that contains an inoculant used for production of castings has been manufactured at the KAMAZ Foundry. There is a reason to be proud of the fact as not long ago the foreign countries adhered to the opinion that such a sophisticated inoculant could be produced only by the companies which were monopolists in the field, greatly experienced and scientifically based. As for the quality level of the inoculant made at the foundry, it is equal to that achieved by the best creator and manufacturer that is Kusaka, a Japanese company.

Introduction of the ladle inoculation of iron by treating with cored wire can be considered as the most scaled production project of new time at the foundry. Within the three years four molding lines were put on use the unique method developed by PROGELTA, an Italian company. . Stable quality of metal is among the main advantages of the technology.

Striving for saving on purchase of the imported high-priced cored wire induced our specialists to set up the own production of the inoculant. The process was mastered and it is already the 100th cored wire coil manufactured.

Semen M. Shnayderman, Project Manager:
“There is no secret that the ladle inoculation process is based on the all-time high quality of the cored wire. A lot of this technological material will be required and, what is more, because of our wide range of castings we will need the wire of different chemical compositions and applications. That is why we have established an experimental laboratory for cored wire development works and manufacture. And 100 tons of the inoculant have been already produced”.

Thus, since April, 2009, the own cored wire is used for inoculation in the iron castings production area. Within this period of time the costs to purchase it have been reduced by more than Rb5M.

At present there are seven cored-wire treatment stations installed in the iron castings production area. It is planned to change the next automatic molding line over the new technology in November, 2009. It will be the 1st DISAMATIC line.