OPEN TO CHANGE At Sure Cast, we empower our team to challenge our industry’s status quo. Our Continuous Improvement Program looks to achieve a better, faster, and safer workplace. The question is, though, “how do we build it and do so successfully?” Simply put, if any...

You have already been introduced to heat treatment, now it’s time to go further. Heat treating aluminum improves the mechanical properties of alloy, making it easier to machine the part. At Sure Cast, we use the T6 heat-treating process. Heat treating aluminum alloy...

WHAT IS HEAT TREATMENT? Simply put, heat treatment improves and strengthens a part’s material properties – in our case, it’s aluminum. This process involves controlled heating (to extreme temperatures) and cooling to achieve a desired result such as hardening or...

In our first guide to material selection, we discussed the metals we use and their properties. But what about swapping out one material for another? Why choose aluminum over steel or other ferrous metals? The most obvious benefit to aluminum over other alloys is that...