Case Study
GK’s VIBRA-DRUM® solves Oil City’s casting damage and sand problems.
Oil City Iron Works, Inc. is a Texas based foundry specializing in gray ironcasting, ductile iron casting, iron machining, ni-resist casting, and heat treatment. They currently have two molding lines, utilizing a BMM Molding Machine as well as a Hunter20 molding line. Prior to contacting GK, Oil City was utilizing a rotary media drum /shakeout from another manufacturer to process castings from both lines. Due to casting damage, they were extracting 60% of the castings from both the BMM molding machine and the Hunter line. This caused many issues with the operation of the system