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KURTZ and KORMAZ Joint Low Pressure Die Casting Project 库尔特——最好的选择
This year the two strong partners Kurtz and Korkmaz Çelik completed successfully a joint low pressure die casting project with the Turkish supplier Altun Döküm Sanayi A.Ş. Altun Döküm was founded in 1977 by Ahmet and Mehmet Altun. Altun Döküm’s customers are widely spread around many different branches. Most of them are working in the energy sector, in automotive, in health or in cooling systems industry and aerospace. Altun Döküm is a typical jobbing foundry that means a very flexible foundry who is casting many kinds of alloys in gravity, high pressure, and of course low pressure. Yearly casting capacity is around 1,800 ton of aluminium. Besides casting and machining Altun Döküm has its own tool shop, casting simulation, laboratory, and heat treatment. How Altun Döküm was able to further increase product quality with low pressure casting is reported in an interview with Kenan Pulat, Assistant Production Manager at Altun Döküm. Kurtz: How and when did you make first contact with Kurtz and Korkmaz Çelik? What challenge did Altun Döküm face at that time? K. Pulat: We met at the GIFA fair in 2019. Some of my colleagues and I met at the Kurtz booth and talked to the Kurtz Automotive team. We got in-depth technology and machine information from the Kurtz and Korkmaz Çelik teams. We kept in lively contact and had discussions about our needs and ideas. Korkmaz Çelik took care of the communication in our mother tongue, supported us in technical topics, and accelerated the response process. Korkmaz advised us very well. Altun Döküm decided to invest and to move on with Kurtz. Kurtz: What was the main criteria for Altun Döküm to decide working with Kurtz and trusting in their technologies? Did you face any challenges? K. Pulat: We have been producing by low pressure die casting (LPDC) method for many years. Machines that we use are mostly outdated technology. New parts requests coming from our clients directed us to use newer technological systems. That is why we travelled to GIFA fair and searched LPDC systems. Kurtz foundry machines convinced us the most. Kurtz technologies are state of the art, have great references and are the most powerful on the market. We need a very flexible casting machine to produce our wide range of products, these were the key drivers we at Altun Döküm were looking for. Kurtz: What was the main aspect when choosing the final equipment of the machine? Which castings are produced on the Kurtz foundry machine and which requirements had to be met? K. Pulat: We connected with the Korkmaz Çelik team and explained them our present and future projects. Besides the parts in metal die, with and without sand cores, we also need to cast complete core packages in low pressure. We asked for a machine which can do both processes, metal die and sand core in one machine, which is not usual at all. Our projects have high quality requirements, lot sizes are mostly low. We are casting high weight products up to 700 kg and very light products up to 0.2 kg. According to our projects, the Kurtz team determined the machine’s requirements.
两个强大的合作伙伴库尔特（Kurtz）和Korkmaz Çelik与土耳其供应商Altun Döküm Sanayi公司成功完 成了联合低压压铸项目。Altun Döküm公司于1977年 由Ahmet和Mehmet创立。Altun Döküm公司的客户 广泛分布于很多领域。大部分客户属于能源、汽车、健 康或冷却系统行业和航空航天领域。Altun Döküm公 司是典型的小批量生产铸造厂，这意味着它的生产非常 灵活，可以生产重力、高压、低压等多种工艺的合金铸 件。年铸造产能约为1,800吨铝合金铸件。除铸造和加工 外，Altun Döküm还拥有自己的模具车间、铸造模拟、 实验室和热处理车间。在对Altun Döküm助理生产经理 Kenan Pulat的采访中，他介绍了Altun Döküm公司如 何通过低压铸造进一步提高产品质量。 Kurtz：在什么时间、什么情况下第一次接触到Kurtz 和Korkmaz Çelik的？Altun Döküm面临什么挑战呢？ K. Pulat：我们是在2019年的GIFA展会上认识的。我 和我的一些同事在Kurtz展位会面，并与Kurtz Automotive团队进行了交谈。我们从Kurtz和Korkmaz Çelik团 队获得了全面的技术和设备信息。我们保持着积极的联 系，并就我们的需求和想法进行了讨论。Korkmaz Çelik 负责帮助翻译，在技术上为我们提供支持，并加快了响 应过程。Korkmaz给予了很好的建议。Altun Döküm 决定投资并继续与Kurtz合作。 Kurtz：Altun Döküm决定与Kurtz合作并信任他们 的技术是基于什么？你遇到哪些挑战？ K. Pulat：多年来，我们一直采用低压铸造(LPDC) 工艺进行生产。我们使用的机器大多是过时的。来自客 户的新零件生产需求要求我们使用更新的技术，因此， 我们前往GIFA展并寻找LPDC技术。Kurtz的铸造机得到 我们的认可，它的技术是最先进的，有很多成功案例， 并且是市场上最强大的。我们需要一台非常灵活的铸造 机来生产多样化的产品，这些是Altun Döküm寻找的 关键驱动因素。 Kurtz：在选择最终的机器设备时，主要考虑的方 面是什么？Kurtz铸造机生产哪些铸件，必须满足哪 些要求？ K. Pulat：我们联系了Korkmaz Çelik团队并向他们 介绍了我们现在和未来的项目。除了金属模具中的零 件，有无砂芯，我们还需要用低压压铸铸造完整的砂 芯。我们要求可以在一台机器上同时完成金属模具和砂 芯这两种工艺，这根本不常见。我们的项目有很高的质 量要求，大多是小批量。我们铸造从0.2公斤到700公 斤的铸件。根据我们的项目要求，Kurtz团队确定了机 器的要求。
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