Casting Design
Save time and money with Minster’s Pattern Shop
From concept to design to finished product, get it all at Lawton Minster. Our Minster location has an in-house pattern shop and plenty of pattern storage for all of your tooling needs. Welcome to our Pattern Shop “Minster has had an in-house pattern shop for many, many years,” said plant manager Steve Johnson. The pattern…
Read MoreThe Process Behind Our Large Machine Bases and Frames
The C.A. Lawton Co. in Minster is your place to turn for large machine bases or frames. Our facility is mastering these large iron castings and meeting our customers’ expectations. We recently delivered several large machine bases weighing over 17,000 pounds. Why Choose Minster for your Large Machine Bases and Frames? Our Minster facility specializes…
Read MoreSpecializing in Large Machine Bases
C.A. Lawton Minster knows how to handle large orders. We’re talking about 17,000-pound orders, like this recently completed machine base. Minster was tasked with producing this giant casting, with overall dimensions of 144” x 68” x 66”. The total weight of this machine base was 17,200 pounds. And this wasn’t just a block of iron…
Read MoreIron 101 at Lawton
Did you ever wonder what really goes on inside a foundry? How is iron formed? How is a casting made? Well, Lawton Standard engineers are helping our customers learn what we do and how we do it with the Iron 101 class. The class can help streamline future casting projects your company has and potentially…
Read MoreSaving time and money with the KUKA RMC90 Robot
The Lawton Standard Co. added the KUKA (Keller und Knappich Augsburg) RMC90 robot to its expanding casting process equipment list back in 2022. This robot and the associated equipment are utilized to support pattern and mold making activities from Styrofoam pattern milling through the cutting of sand mold blocks. The robot is now housed at…
Read More“It’s in our blood.” Come join the team.
The C.A. Lawton Minster facility is producing gray and ductile iron castings from 20 pounds all the way up to 45,000 pounds. We caught up with Steve Johnson, who now has a few months under his belt as the plant manager at our Minster location. Plant manager Steve Johnson on his first few months “I’ve…
Read MoreStreamlining the solidification process to increase efficiency and quality
The C.A. Lawton Company and Lawton Standard are always trying to find new ways to make the casting process quicker, more efficient and reaching a higher quality. A big help in this process is some newer software by MagmaSoft, which helps our engineers in the solidification process of our castings. We sat down with casting…
Read MoreBig energy savings thanks to UW-Milwaukee’s Industrial Assessment Center
Thanks to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Industrial Assessment Center, the C.A. Lawton Company is saving money each year on its energy costs. Those savings are thousands of dollars each year and to this point, the changes have saved Lawton over $9,000. 2022 assessment of the C.A. Lawton Co. facility in De Pere Back in…
Read MoreMetal castings for beginners
Written by: Platform Engineering Manager, RJ Hawkins Fun fact: you are rarely more than 10 feet away from metal casting of some kind! If you are interested in learning about a process that dates back more than 5,000 years and, even to this day, is still the backbone of the manufacturing economy, you’ve come to…
Read MoreMeet Our Pattern Shop: A tour with Tim Wenninger
The C.A. Lawton Co. strives for high-quality castings and with that, pattern shops are a necessity to reach those standards. This week we’re touring The C.A. Lawton Co. De Pere pattern shop with supervisor, Tim Wenninger. Review the Casting Shape The design review process begins with the customer and the foundry’s casting engineers. Together they…
Read MorePattern and core box materials
The C.A. Lawton Co. can make patterns and core boxes from various materials. Here are the options we offer. Metal: Typical materials used include aluminum and steel. Advantages are high tolerance and excellent durability. Downsides are long lead times and high costs. Metal patterns are best suited for high production run-parts (EAU 200 castings or more),…
Read MoreEverything you need to know about a casting
Casting is a complex art and science that dates back several thousand years. So it’s not surprising that it has its own world of specialized terminology that’s quite foreign to the average OEM design engineer or purchasing manager. That’s why we created this casting terms dictionary, to shed light on the most common terms you…
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