Pennsylvania Precision Cast Parts (PPCP), an investment casting company located in Lebanon, Pa., is now offering customers a wide range of duplex stainless steel alloys to meet their specialized needs and specifications. PPCP produces investment castings for a broad range of parts, industries and applications.
“Our industrial investment casting customers have increasingly demanding needs and requirements that take specialized alloys to satisfy,” says Andrew Miller, President and CEO of PPCP. “By offering a selection of duplex stainless steel alloys, we can more effectively and economically deliver the characteristics and performance they need from the parts we cast.”
PPCP’s duplex stainless steel alloys can provide customers with a variety of benefits from higher strength and less weight to greater corrosion resistance and better price stability. Yet only a small percentage of the market is currently utilizing these high-value alloys for their investment castings.
“Put simply, duplex stainless steel is primarily a combination of austenitic and ferritic grades of steel in varying proportions,” says Steve Bates, PPCP Staff Metallurgist. “Each has its own properties, which can be combined to produce duplex alloys that meet specialized needs and applications far more effectively than either of the component steels.”
Duplex stainless steel has a variety of elemental components that achieve the desired specifications when combined in carefully determined proportions. Producing exactly the right formula takes skill and experience.