Product Profile of Core & Mould Binders : Exothermic Sleeves Afcilex

Afcil industries limited manufacture and exports afcilex. It is a range of special range of exothermic sleeves available in both open as well as in blind shape. It is used for efficient feeding of ferrous & non-ferrous castings. Afcilex is available in solid form .

Afcilex sleeves are designed to provide effective feeding of metal by prolonged solidification period of risers provided to the castings. Afcilex sleeves being exothermic initiate an exothermic reaction in risers by liberation of heat and also acts as a long-term insulating barrier.

• Advantages are :

• Production of sound castings free from defects.

• Increase in feeding efficiency and yield, through minimum heat loss and heat dissipation.

• Reduction in riser sizes improves the foundry yield through metal saving, higher product output per mould due to higher saving in riser metal, savings in high value metallic inputs, drastic reduction in fettling costs.

• Resistance to impact, sleeves can be cut to size as required to suit individual feeding volume.

• When used with afcifeed a range of hot feeding/ anti-piping compounds can lead to further improvement in yield