Promet Foundry s.r.o. - Vsetin

Company description

History of foundry industry in the district town of Vsetín starts at the beginning of the 19th century, in these time was established by the company named Thonet the foudry manufacturing the gray cast iron. In 1922 the Thonet foundry was taken over by Josef Sousedík, a manufacturer of electrical machines.

After 1945 the foundry was organizationally allocated to the national enterprise named MEZ Vsetín, being a subsidiary of holding named ZSE Praha. Castings have been manufactured not only for use within the inherent foundry, but for other domestic enterprises, as well.

After 1989 takes place a separation of the MEZ Vsetín, being at that time a state enterprise, which fact led to enlargement of the scope of manufacturing program as well as resulted in acquisition of new customers. That is why a new technology for manufacturing the castings via Lost Foam process has been imported from the U.S.A., which remained lonely both in the Czech Republic and the Europe. This production line was designed for a serial production.

Within the framework of privatization the foundry management submitted a competitive privatization project via a direct sale.

Slévárna Vsetín spol. s r.o. was established on March 8th, 1994 and bought the assets of foundry on the January 1st, 1996.

In 1997 a fully automated forming line was purchased from the Italian company named Foundry Automation for manufacturing the small and medium grey cast iron products. Furthermore was installed a Škoda continuous blasting machine, a new manufacturing facility for manufacturing of coasting cores, gas heating of the foundry. Erection and installation of the dust removal plant of the cupola furnaces represents one of environmental projects.

To enable further development of the company the company owners made a decision to find out a strategic partner, who will subsequently up-to-date the manufacturing process together with cintemporary proprietors as well as who should participate in management of the company. As such parther has been chosen company named Procento, spol. s r.o.

For the purpose of stabolization of both purchase and sale the foundry concentrated these activities under the commercial management of subsidiary company named Procento-Metalurgie spol. s r.o. That is why the raw material supplies as well as sale of products of Slévárna Vsetín spol. s r.o. are ensured via the Procento-Metalurgie spol. s r.o. company since the January 2000.

Our Customers

ANTREG, a.s., Vyškov
CASMO spol. s r.o., Napajedla
ESPO, s.r.o., Rožnov pod Radhoštìm
HANAKOV, spol. s r.o., Prostìjov
LINDE POHONY, s.r.o., Èeský Krumlov
M.L.S. Holice, spol. s r.o., Olomouc
MAGNETON, a.s., Kromìøíž
MEZ, a.s., Nedvìdice
ORTEC ÈR, s.r.o., Puklice
Praga Hostivaø, a.s., Praha 10
PRAGA Louny, a.s., Louny
ROIS, spol. s r.o., Praha 8
Siemens Elektromotory, s.r.o., Frenštát
Siemens Elektromotory, s.r.o., Mohelnice
TES VSETÍN, s.r.o., Vsetín
ABB group-ABB Assist AB, ABB Motors Ab, WITTE INDUSTRIER AB - Švédsko, ABB Motors Oy, ABB Tools Oy, Oy MAPROTEC Ab - Finsko
AGROMECHANIKA NOVA, a.s., Nitra, Slovensko
AVC Èaca, a.s., Èadca, Slovensko
BROKO GmbH, Unterschleissheim, Nìmecko
BROOK CROMPTON, Guiseley, Velká Británie
CASMO GmbH, Bamberg, Nìmecko
CLAAS Industrietechnik GmbH, Paderborn, Nìmecko
DIETZ-motoren GmbH &Co.KG, Dettingen, Nìmecko
DRUHÁ STROJÁRENSKÁ, a.s., Stará Tura, Slovensko
Geostroj, a.s, Turèianské Teplice, Slovensko
Handelsvertretung Jürgen Reum, Morschen, Nìmecko
LENZE GmbH Co. KG, Hameln, Nìmecko
LOHER AG, Ruhrstorf a.d. Rott, Nìmecko
M.L.S. USINE DE SILLAC, Angouleme Cedex, Francie
ORANIENBURGER PUMPEN GmbH, Oranienburg, Nìmecko
POBJEDA TEŠAJN, Tešajn, Bosna a Hercegovina
Prins Metallurgische Producten BV, MN Amersfoort, Holandsko
Schmiederberger Giesserei GmbH, Schmiederberg, Nìmecko
Schorch GmbH, Mönchengladbach, Nìmecko
WESTFALIA, Oelde, Nìmecko

Location

Products

Manufacturing of Casting
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* Gray cast iron casting of 150-300 Mpa strenght
* Nodular cast iron casting of 400-600 Mpa strenght
* Special perlitic cast iron
* Casting for electrotechnical industry, automotive industry, textile machines and casting of general use, up to the weight of 250 kg
* Castings of motor stators, manufactured by Lost Foam Process, up to the weight of 150 kg
* Complex piece casting, up to the weight of 1,000 kg
Throughput:
* 13 000 t castings p.a.
Employees:
* Number of 270 employees


Melting Shop
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Makes a liquid metal in cupola furnace with 1.000 m diameter with using of oxygen addition and its load is 6 MT/hour. For the melting and keeping or possibly duplex process, there are 2 electric furnaces with 6 MT of capacity are available, each with melting load 1,7 MT/hour.

This equipment allows making the gray cast iron with strength of 150 MPa – 250 MPa and also the nodular cast iron with of strength 400 MPa – 600 MPa. The quality of the metal is checked under the regulations with chemical laboratory (spectrometer Jobin – Yvon) and with mechanical and metalographical test-rooms.


Moulding Shop
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is provided with sophisticated technological lines:

Automatic moulding line Foundry-Automation from Italy has inner dimension of the frames of 700 x 700 x 250 mm (length x width x height) for 1 half part. Moulding mixture is from bentonite and the moulding technique is based on an impulse. The theoretical load of the line is 70 moulds/hour, the practical one is 50 moulds/hour. The weight of casting in the frame is between 20 kg and 60 kg. The line capacity in 3 daily shifts is 5.000 MT of castings/year for common and small series as well. Moulding equipment can be from aluminium, wood or resin.

The moulding line of the self-binding mixtures is up to date technology for production of jobbing and also serial castings of bigger size. It uses the size of frames until 1.000 x 1.000 x 500 mm for 1 half, possibly 1.000 x 1.300 x 500 mm. Moulding equipment can be from aluminium or wood. The maximum weight of casting in the jobbing production is 290 kg. The annual production is 3.500 MT of castings.

The following devices are:
2x FKT 1212 jolting machine of sand recompressing type, inner dimension of the frames is of 1 300 x 1 000 x 250 mm
1x KERN BLOCK – manufacturing of stators to cores
4x FOROMAT 40 moulding machines, inner dimension of the frames is of 820 x 820 x 250 mm


Lost Foam Process
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The Lost-Foam technology (evaporized full form) is unique technology used in the middle Europe for the serial production of castings made from the gray cast iron, possibly form the nodular cast iron. It enables the high precision of castings can be reached, their weight reduced (lower scarf, unusual solution of castings’ styles).

This technology needs the polystyrene mould of intended form for each produced casting, which can be realized only with using of moulding equipment from aluminium alloys in our plant.

The jobbing production can be set from 2 kg to 200 kg of castings. Maximum size of diameter is of 750 mm and the maximum length is of 650 mm. The line load is 30 moulds/hour. The annual capacity is up to 3.500 MT of castings.


Production of Cores
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The company makes the special core-boxes on the productive instruments with the various capacities:

* 1x Shooting machine of 80 l throughput
* 1x Shooting machine of 40 l throughput
* 3x Shooting machine of 12 l throughput
* 1x Manual production of cores


Cleaning Shop
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Casted pieces are free from of sand in pendant blasting machines, table blasting machines or barrel blasting machines depending on size, weight and batch process. After blasting the finishing operations are running with grinding, cutting and surface forming. If necessary, there are available 2 electric annealing furnaces CAN 3-7 with the table tonnage of 7 MT.

The cleaning shop contains following devices:
1x Gutmann pendant blasting machine, weight of charge up to 2 000 kg
1x Škoda pendant blasting machine
1x Table blasting machine
1x PT belt blasting machine


Quality check
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The quality inspection is under the focus on the all parts of production. The elaborate processes and regulations are instrumental in. The company keeps the quality certificate W 0/TRD 100 for materials, issued by the TÜV Südwest, Mannheim, renewed on April 4th, 2001, and the certificate procedure under the standard 9002 EN CSN has achieved already.

Materials

• General cast steel
• Gray cast iron

Certificates

• VDA 6.1