[Ferro-alloys.com]RSM castings of Northampton is one of Europe’s leading Shell Moulding foundries and has produced Shell Mould castings since 1975. RSM produces more than one million castings a year for the automotive, hydraulic and engineering industries for their customers in Germany, France, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, USA, Brazil, China and India.

Since the closure of large foundries in the UK using resin coated sand, volumes decreased to such a level that one major producer found it no longer viable to produce resin coated sand and ceased production in 2011. For RSM and the remaining shell sand users this meant either paying a high premium for UK supply or importing the sand from mainland Europe. So with these additional costs and a limited UK sand supply base in mind, RSM decided to invest in and install its own thermal Sand reclamation and re-coating plant.

RSM turned to Omega with the knowledge that, since the purchase of Richards engineering, Omega had the sand coating technology based on the proven Fordath design.

• [Editor:Mike.zhang]