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<div>Aluminum alloy rims can be produced by the following methods: forging, twisting, gravity casting and low-pressure casting. Irrespective of the advantages and disadvantages of each of these technologies, by far the most common way of producing Al-Si alloy rims is low-pressure casting (up to 0.2 MPa). This process provides good quality products with the required performance properties and customer-imposed shapes at comparatively low production costs. Low-pressure rim casting can be conventionally divided into main and auxiliary processes. The former refer to the place where the rims are made: melting shop (foundry), heat and mechanical processing, diamond cutting, painting shop. Auxiliary processes include inter-operational inspections, visual evaluation of the finished rim, preparation of casting molds (dies), raw material management and in-plant logistics. Article comes courtesy of Superior Industries Production Poland sp. z o.o. authorities.</div>
Keywords: Foundry, Al-Si alloys, rims, silumin melting, refining, modification© This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.