Case Study
Cost Savings For An Aluminum Die-Casting Producer
PHILOS GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES Leading the World of Surface Technology ® www.philosgt.com Copyright © 2016. All Rights Reserved. Philos and PST are registered trademarks of Philos Global Technologies, Inc. PHILOS GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 1011 Commerce Court ? Buffalo Grove ? Illinois ? 60089 ? tel 630-924-8747 ? fax 630-563-9137 ? www.philosgt.com ? info@philosgt.com Our customer, a major producer of aluminum die cast components based in the Midwest, wanted to see if PST surface treatment or a competing technology such as Ion Nitriding would be more cost effective in producing 90,000 shots. They engaged us to perform a test run to add up all thecostsinvolved, given thesameshotsleeves. With PST, our customer found that the shot sleeves did not need to be re-treated and re-machined for the