INDUSTRY NEWS
Materion Partners With Aristo Cast on Aluminum-Beryllium Line Materion Brush Beryllium &
Composites, a Materion Corp. company based in Elmore, Ohio, has entered into a strategic manu- facturing and marketing partner- ship with Aristo Cast Inc., Almont, Mich., for its proprietary AlBeCast aluminum-beryllium investment castings product line. The two com- panies initiated their partnership in October 2013. Aristo Cast has received numer- ous awards for best in class magne- sium castings from the American Foundry Society, the Investment Casting Institute, and the Inter- national Magnesium Association. Leveraging its lightweight alloy investment casting experience, Aristo Cast provides Materion with a breakthrough shell technology that in qualification proved not only to improve casting quality,
but dramatically reduce production costs of aluminum-beryllium invest- ment castings. “Aristo Cast technology repre- sents a game-changing develop- ment for the production of AlBe- Cast,” said Lawrence Ryczek, vice president and general manager of Materion Brush Beryllium & Com- posites. “With the Aristo Cast shell technology, our expanded capability and world class casting team, we are confident AlBeCast will cap- ture new applications that weren’t possible even two years ago,” he continued. “We are in qualification with a number of aerospace, defense and semiconductor firms seeking to capitalize on this alloy system and casting technology breakthrough. As previously announced, we are in qualification with Lockheed as a supplier for the F-35 Lightning II’s
Electro-Optical Targeting System.” Jack Ziemba, president and owner
of Aristo Cast added, “Materion has the resources to grow the reinvigo- rated AlBeCast product line, and we look forward to working side by side with them to do it.” The Aristo Cast partnership coincides with Materion’s own new investment in casting technol- ogy, equipment and upgrades at its Elmore facility. The operation offers customers rapid prototyping and solidification modeling to provide investment cast parts with short lead times and competitive pric- ing. Aluminum-beryllium castings provide favorable cost/benefit ad- vantages for technically demanding applications requiring a combina- tion of ultra-light weight, stiffness, mechanical stability and thermal properties.
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