QMEX specialty: Aluminum. 

With the low and high pressure injection moulding process, only alloys with a relatively low melting point can be cast, such as aluminium, magnesium and zinc (zamak). This process is cheaper than the lost wax casting and MIM and extremely suitable for medium to larger series. The complexity of the cast parts is also slightly lesser than the lost wax casting. 

The great advantage of the injection moulding process is that it consists of only a few steps, resulting in a short lead time and less energy and raw material consumption, so is greener, compared to the other casting processes. Mostly suitable for thin walled and complex cast parts. 

QMEX specialty: Aluminum, titanium and high strength steel, providing better mechanical properties or greater resistance to corrosion. 

This casting process allows components originally composed of several components to be moulded into a whole cast by changing the part structure. Our lost wax casting technology is at the world's leading level. We not only offer high performance lightweight casting parts according to the different needs of our customers, but also provide the following services: metallurgical material development, metallurgical technical support and optimisation of casting process. 

The advantage is to minimize the need for secondary machining and the consumption of materials and to make parts more structured, thus speeding up delivery times and reducing unnecessary production costs and resource consumption. This process is most suitable for complex geometrical parts with high tolerances and for technical challenges that other casting processes cannot succeed. 

QMEX specialty: titanium, high strength steel. 

Metal injection moulding (MIM) is a manufacturing method that integrates plastic injection moulding and powder metallurgy. Small and complex shaped products are ideal for Metal Injection Moulding. This casting technology not only breaks the traditional shape and strength limits of powder metallurgy, but also the strength limit for aluminium injection molding, the high accuracy and makes secondary operations unnecessary. Our MIM products are characterised in form, complexity, dimensional precision, high density and are ideal for large-scale automatic production. 

The great advantage of our MIM technology compared to traditional casting is the reduction of unnecessary process steps and costs.

QMEX specialiteiten: staal, titanium en verschillende polymeren. 

A "casting" is printed directly from the CAD file layer by layer. This can be done with both powders and wire. The possible geometries are virtually unlimited. Because it is a relatively young process, not all materials are available yet for the time being, but it won't take too long to develop more applicable alloys and other materials.  This process is now finding various applications for lightweight alternatives of cast parts and Rapid Prototyping of lost wax casting, but in the near future it also will be applied for MIM. 

Commercial available: Titanium, Ti6A14V, cobalt chromium alloy, steel, stainless steel, nickel alloy's Inconel 625 and Inconel 718. 

The great advantage of 3D printing is that there are no expensive mould costs, shortening research and development cycles, reducing materials, reducing assembly costs, and reducing inventory risk in contrast to the other three casting processes described. But the productivity and the production rate are low, therefore its use is restricted prototypes, small batches and in urgent cases. 

We also offer numerous non-destructive and laboratory test methods to verify the quality of internal structure and material composition.

●     Endurance tests   

●     Dynamic and static tests

●     Non-Destructive tests

●     Failure tests and analysis