Casting Design
4 Steps to Find the Perfect Foundry
Selecting a foundry can be a challenging and time consuming task, whether you’re involved in a new project startup that requires cast parts or if you’re just relocating patterns to have castings produced at different suppliers. To make matters worse, if you do not have a basic knowledge of the foundry and casting process, you…
Read MoreHow to avoid common casting design mistakes
As older design engineers retire, a new wave of young engineers are taking their places. What many younger engineers lack is an understanding of casting design – how to design parts so they can be cast with a consistently high level of quality. We recently sat down with Jeff Taylor, a casting engineer at The…
Read MoreHow engineering relationships lead to better casting project outcomes
“Are you kidding me? There’s no way to make that!” If you’re in the business of making something, you’ve been on one side of this statement or the other. Either you’ve heard it, or you’ve said it. I’ll admit as an engineer I’ve experienced both throughout my career. It’s a crushing statement for all: To…
Read MoreEverything you always wanted to know about casting… but were afraid to ask
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…
Read MoreThe C.A. Lawton Co. to offer manufacturer direct plates, work holding, platens, and weld tables
After producing its own angle plates and work holding fixtures for more than a century, The C.A. Lawton Co., a De Pere, WI-based foundry, pattern, and heavy manufacturing machine shop, will now offer these highest-quality products through a Lawton-branded consumer product line being sold directly to machinists and fabricators. The new products will complement Lawton’s…
Read MoreMaking Large Castings and Saving Energy Too
The C.A. Lawton Co. was recently featured in Wisconsin Public Service’s November newsletter as saving energy. Energy Savings
Read MoreThe C.A. Lawton Co. FAQs
At The C.A. Lawton Co., our team of customer advocates hears similar questions about our capabilities, metrics, and processes from many current and prospective clients. And with our blog being built to serve as an educational resource for readers, we’d like to answer some of these common questions in today’s post: Castings What kind of…
Read MoreThe Lawton Difference: Integrated Offerings
At The C.A. Lawton Co., we are proud of the reputation our foundry has built over the last two centuries; a reputation for quality, on-time iron casting solutions alongside high-touch customer service. In this series of blog posts, we will be highlighting the “Lawton Difference” and how Lawton makes the difficult task of procuring castings…
Read MoreFabrication Conversions to Iron Castings
Save 40-60%! The CA Lawton Co. is your one-stop-shop for fabrication conversions such as machined Reel Drum castings. Compare these costs for a typical drum… Fabricated machined drum $4,035 Lawton cast machined drum $2,210 THAT’S A SAVINGS OF $1,825 per DRUM! Applies to many kinds of fabrications such as machine bases, equipment frames, and structural…
Read MorePaperchine / C.A. Lawton Partnership : New Replacement Parts Brochure
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Read MorePrinted Sand Molds and Cores for Large and Complex Castings
Additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, is the process of making usable objects from digital models. By building-up successive layers of material, additive manufacturing provides access to capabilities not available with traditional manufacturing processes. Not only can additive manufacturing technology build objects using materials such as plastics and metals but recent advances have proved successful in…
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