Our Products
Engineered Castings
Blackwood produces a range of engineered castings using a range of materials including Ductile Iron and Steel. All castings we provide are machined to our customers specifications.
We manage the whole project for you, from the initial design concept and drawings through to delivery of the final product to meet your production requirements.
Our team assist you in many aspects of the process, such as cost reduction, product design, packaging and logistics. Our track record and established history of executing projects from conception to production quantities allows you to focus on other issues, giving you the peace of mind that your casting project is progressing smoothly in good hands.
We manufacture the following types of engineered castings:
- Ductile Iron
- Steel
- Grey Iron
- Austempered Ductile Iron
- Aluminium
Ductile Iron Castings
- From 0.75kg up to 1,000kg
- Resin sand
- Full material range
- High tensile strength
- As cast or painted finish
- Metallurgical Testing
- High or low volume
- Engineered castings with structural functions
- Castings for products including housings, chassis and support weights, levers and mounting plates
Steel Castings
- From 0.1kg up to 10,000kg
- Precision castings
- Low alloy steel castings
- Stainless steel castings
- Lost wax process
- Heat Treatment
- Material Testing
- High or low volume
- Full range of materials
- Lost wax allows tight dimensional tolerances to be met
- Removes the need for machining in many cases
Machined Castings
- Fully machined castings
- CNC Lathes
- CNC Machining Centres
- Vertical boring
- Horizontal boring
- Structural castings
- Dimensional accuracy
- High or low volume
- Conventional or full CNC machining
- Types of products include clamps, nose, hinge and pivot castings
Example Engineered Castings Include
- Housings
- Brackets
- Plate Adapters
- Links
- Levers
- Hinges
- Axles
- Cylinders
- Supports
- Engine Mounts
Discuss Your Requirements
Get in touch with our expert team to discover how we can help with your organisations engineered castings and counterweight requirements.
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Low-cost manufacturing
We work alongside partner foundries to pick the most capable and cost -effective manufacturer for your project.
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Engineering project management
Our experienced project engineers assist every step of the way from sampling through to delivery.
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Logistics and distribution
We can offer a flexible approach and provide logistical and supply chain solutions to suit your business model
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Customised finishing
Our in-house facilities allow customised paint or surface finishes to exactly your specification
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Inventory control
We can provide you complete peace of mind and manage your inventory in one of our storage and warehouse facilities.
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Quality assurance
We have achieved ISO9001:2015 for the supply of cast products in the grey state or painted as required by the customer
Engineered castings to your specification
Our team work closely with customers to develop a range of engineered castings suitable for machinery in a variety of materials. All the metal castings we produce include: