Hygrade Casting will be closed from 20th December 2024 and re-opening again 20th January 2025. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
Hygrade Casting will be closed from 20th December 2024 and re-opening again 20th January 2025. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
COMING SOON, We anticipate our brand new wax printer to be fully calibrated and running on the 5th May 2025.
We have invested in the latest and greatest 3D wax printers from United States. We print all of our jobs at a dimensionally accurate 16 micron (16uM resolution) precision throughout the entirety of the item.
Our wax printing is designed to meet and exceed our client’s expectations of reliability, consistency and premium quality results.
We will be providing how-to guides and pictures here very soon to help you and your CAD designer’s better understand and design sprues and additional supports to aid in casting and not rely on the human touch to attach wax sprues directly onto your item (thus eating into your profile/shape), furthermore we will be providing simple yet technical information for CAD designers including:
We no longer print or cast with resin anymore and we no longer accept customer supplied resins. Many countries around the world have already phased out resin casting in precious metals, and we anticipate most (if not all) Australian casting houses will follow suit by the end of 2025.
This decision was made by us due to changes in resin formulations by the resin manufacturers who are providing zero support and information to casting houses. These formulation changes have resulted with extremely poor casting results such as:
We have come to the conclusion that resin casting has taken a step backwards in terms of casting quality and consistency, additionally, ongoing research has highlighted increasing health risks associated with resin exposure, and we prioritise the well-being of our workers.
