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Challenges • Lighter Castings

30%+ Mass Reduction. Everytime

Lightweighting castings is a never ending challenge, but it's a problem to which Sarginsons unique range of skills, technology, and experience is well adapted. And this is why Sarginsons has manged to reduce the mass of every casting it has reviewed, by more than 30%, with no loss of mechanical performance.

Perfect lightweighting requires the whole casting package. And it's a big complex, evolving package; involving hundreds, if not thousands, of variables where perfection can ironically rely on exploiting the nature of imperfection. Sarginsons rely on their world leading digital twin simulations and topological optimisation to lead a whole host of other technologies, that together achieve remarkable performance improvements. 

You don't just lightweight a casting. You have to live and breathe it. It's research, art, experience and intuition tightly woven into one, controlled package.  

Lightening Technology

Lightweighting is at the heart of what Sarginsons do. And is the area in which it has had it's greatest successes. Almost all Sarginsons technical breakthroughs play a part in its mission to drive weight out of components which, with reductions exceeding 30%, is genuinely exceptional and world leading.

A Huge Range of Skillsets

Every aspect of the casting process, from design and alloy development to simulations and topology has been overhauled for lightweighting. And with the potential of 3D printing and Smart Cooling, it is a process that is accelerating as the true potential of genuinely organic forms becomes clearer.

And Lighter Is Stronger

The same digital twin and topology processes that lighten components can be used to enhance mechanical strength which, with better alloy grain refinement, 3D printed cores and new heat treatment protocols, enables Sarginsons to improve TYE performance, at any point across a cast components form.

Stronger, Greener, Larger, Lighter castings.

Key Points

  • World Leading Lightweighting
  • Homogenised TYE Data Not Used
  • True Topological Optimisation 
  • Perfect for One Piece Castings
  • EV Battery Cages & Subframes
  • Structural Aerospace & UAV Frames

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