CAPABILITIES

Retooling our operation to deliver value and total customer satisfaction.

The Foundry

Emergent Industries is composed of 2 companies steeped in a rich and long history. Lake Shore Foundry has been a family owned operation since 1940. Marinette Casting had been operating since 1973. Over the years, these companies have endured the many economic peaks and valleys primarily by providing industry recognized customer service and satisfaction. The resultant company, Emergent Industries, is staffed with trained professionals able to assist your company in assessing your non-ferrous sand and permanent mold casting needs. Our objective is to deliver a solution that will meet and exceed your company’s specific engineering and business objectives.

Emergent Industries’ professionals take pride in their work, paying strict attention to detail and delivering product quality. In order to better serve our customers, we provide a number of foundry services either directly or through our partners, including heat treat, impregnation, x-ray, machining, protective finishes, tooling design, core box construction, painting, metallurgy and non-destructive testing. Our diversified customer base allows us to provide a wide range of cast products including electrical power components, fluid handling, robotics, valve, and housing castings.

The foundry is capable of producing low to high quantity jobs. For the higher quantity projects, we are equipped with a Hunter automatic molding line which can produce castings weighing from a few ounces to 35 lbs in brass or bronze and up to 20 lbs in aluminum. The flask size on this line is 20”x24”, 6.5” over 5.5” with a 4” taper. Our new Sinto line will be up shortly to significantly increase our capacity.

For the low to medium quantity jobs, we utilize our squeezer and roto-lift lines. The squeezer molds can produce castings weighing from a few ounces to 20 lbs in brass or bronze to 15 lbs in aluminum. The flasks for the squeezer line run up to 18”x18”. Our roto-lift line can produce castings weighing up to 250 and 100 lbs in brass and aluminum respectively. These flask sizes range from 14”x18” to 26”x42”.

Back to top

Markets Served

Emergent Industries has provided castings for numerous customers and industries over its many years of operations. Our experience can be leveraged to meet your needs and provide value-add from conception through production.

Back to top

Materials

Emergent Industries primarily casts non-ferrous materials such as aluminum, copper, bronze and brass. All metal is melted using primary ingot with no outside scrap metal being melted. We take great caution not to contaminate our alloys. If requested, test bars can be poured and tested to certify chemical and physical properties. While we maintain a list of commonly poured alloys, it is important to note that this list is not all inclusive. Emergent Industries is flexible and capable of casting a wide variety of alloys.

We will work closely with your development team to ensure that the material chosen is best suited for your application and requirements. In the Designer’s Corner we offer information and resources to aid in choosing the right material, and as always, don’t hesitate to contact our experts to assist you with your alloy selection. View materials commonly poured at Emergent Industries.

Back to top

Pistons

Tight tolerances, complicated geometries, multiple operations, and unique casting requirements are what make pistons one of the most challenging components to manufacture. Emergent Industries’ vast experience in the design and manufacture of pistons positions us as a unique provider of product but also of value-added engineering services. Our experiences bridge compressor, light and heavy duty combustion, and pump applications. We deliver both aluminum and cast iron pistons, in addition to related components such as rods, pins, rings and assemblies. We bring a unique set of experiences and tools to the table to ensure that your piston application is designed and produced to the application’s exacting specifications. Unlike many of the manufacturers, both domestic and particularly off-shore, we are equipped to produce small lots efficiently, which is critical in minimizing your risk exposure and holding costs.

Applications
• Compressors
• Railroad compressors
• Pumps
• Light duty combustion engines – gas
• Heavy duty combustion engines - diesel

Product Offerings
• Pistons – cast only or cast and machined
• available in Aluminum or Cast Iron
• Assemblies
• Finishing and anodizing
• Connecting rods
• Rings
• Pins

Service Offerings
• Design engineering
• Retooling
• Mold troubleshooting

View piston design considerations

Back to top

Gallery

Back to top

Machining

Emergent Industries employs state-of-the art computerized machining with modern CNC turning and machining centers. Our in-house operation allows us to work closely with our foundry to produce highly machined and precise parts to our customers’ specifications. We offer a full range of machining options to take your castings to near-finished dimensions or a completely finished part. A combination of manual and CNC machining centers gives us the ability to turn, mill, or bore your parts as specified, with finishes ranging from 500 to 16 RMS.

This integrated machining allows us to provide our customers with a complete solution. Our commitment to quality and excellence is the driving force behind everything we produce.

Back to top

Value-Added Services

With our objective of providing the utmost value to our customers we understand that we need to look beyond the foundry. Many times our customers look to us to provide a more complete solution. We’ve begun addressing this need by integrating machining capabilities. We are committed to taking a larger role in providing solutions to our customers. Either directly or through our partners we offer the following services in addition to our core competence of sand and permanent mold casting:

The key driver for providing these services is increased value for our customers:

Contact us to discuss how we can partner with you to deliver complete products and services enabling you to reduce costs and focus your assets on core business activities.

Back to top

CAD

Emergent Industries provides complete tooling design and construction from customer 3D CAD data, resulting in significant improvements in cost, accuracy and delivery time. We use Solid Works CAD software and work with a variety of CAD formats.

3D File Formats
Solidworks (*prt; *.sldprt; *.asm; *.sldasm)
STEP AP203/214 Files (*.step; *.stp)
IGES (*.igs; *.iges)
Parasolid (*.x_t; *.x_b)
ProE (*.prt; *.xpr; *.asm)
Cimatron (*.pfm)
UGII Unigraphics II (*.prt)
Catia (*.cgr)
Cadkey (*.prt)

2D File Formats
Solidworks Drawing Files (*.drw; .*slddrw)
AutoCAD
DWG Files (*.dwg)
DXF Files (*.dxf)

We also use EdgeCAM and CamWorks software for CNC machining of castings, molds, patterns and coreboxes.

Login to our FTP site

Back to top