HITECH Shapes and Design Specializes in CNC Pattern Making and Foundry Patterns.

Company Profile

Automotive CastingsHITECH Shapes & Designs, a division of Seilkop Industries, Inc., offers expertise in the design and prototyping of automatic molding tooling for economical casting in the foundry industry. We have the internal capabilities to handle your projects from design to prototyping to the final product. We are an ISO 9001:2008 company and will work with your internal design team to streamline internal production processes. Working with your engineers, HITECH Shapes & Designs will be able to anticipate any changes required for the casting process beforehand via solid model transfer. Tooling built from these approved solid models eliminates unwanted and costly surprises.

We have been building foundry tooling since 1946. The company evolved from hand-crafted wood and metal patterns to its present CNC pattern making capabilities. Some of these same pattern making machines design the pattern tooling first as a 3D solid model, using Pro-e or SolidWorks for the model, and Surfcam for the fully CNC machined tooling.

CAPABILITIES AND SERVICES

Prototype Castings

Automotive Sand CastingsHITECH Shapes & Designs offers prototype "castings", in a short time frame, rather than SLA copies without the necessary draft needed for the casting process. The prototype casting / tooling will represent as close to the foreseeable production casting as possible, eliminating most surprises.

Our prototyping services include:

• Cost-effective design and prototyping of tooling and core boxes
• Re-design of existing prototypes resulting in lean process
• Improvement for your casting needs
• Fully CNC-machined tooling from solid CAD models
• Every job follows our ISO 9001:2008 Product Realization and Design

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Prototyping and Design Services

Milltronics VM-25 High Speed

All tooling is CNC-machined from CAD-Solid Models. Created from 2D drawings or provided in its, native, .stp, or .igs formats:

• Pro-e Wildfire 3 and 4
• Solid Works 
• Surfcam CAM and DelCAM software for machining
• AutoCAD for 2D support
• QuikCast Solidification Software
• VisualCast to analyze the QuikCast files

Hitech Shapes and Designs Equipment List

Tooling Capabilities

Four Piece I-20 Box

HITECH Shapes and Designs regularly builds the tooling listed, keeping any new tools "learning curve" at a minimum:

• Automatic Molding Machines
• DISA MATIC as well as DISA MATCH with core masks
• Sinto Patterns
• Hunter Patterns
• Match Plates and Cope and Drag
• Shell Molding

Equipment List

DISA Pattern

5-Milltronics VM301L CNC Machining Centers
Milltronics VM201L CNC Machining Center
Mazak 28M Turning Center with Live Tooling
Mazak 18M Turning Center with Live Tooling

Core Boxes for Cast Parts

• Redford
• Laempe L-20 - horizontal, vertical (multi-directional pull)
• Dependable
• Hottinger
• Harrison
• Horizontal type complete with blow tube assemblies and top and bottom ejector systems

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Working materials

Cast Iron D-2 Steel 4140 Steel

Aluminum Urethane tooling board Hardwood

Impeller Stripper Vane Box