MK5 Rotary Media Drum Provides Impressive Performance and Fast Payback > > USER - WABTEC Foundry, Ontario, Canada is a foundry specializing in aluminum, gray and ductile iron for the Railway Industry. OPERATION - Air-set/no-bake and automatic green sand molding 32 x 30 x 12/12, 24 x 20 x 10/10, tight flask molding 13 x 18 x 6/6 and a squeezer line feeding a new DIDION Mark 5 Series Rotary Media Drum. PROBLEM - The 25-year-old DIDION Rotary Sand Casting Separator needed to be replaced and WABTEC needed a shakeout that could process aluminum and iron castings produced on the same sand system. Sand lumps from the high pressure molding line, when running aluminum, were making their way through the shakeout drum. This is very unique and a challenge for both the foundry and equipment manufacture

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