50 YEARS OF INVESTMENT CASTING MANUFACTURING EXPERTISE
Lestercast have been providing OEM’s and suppliers with high quality investment cast components for over 50 years. In this time we have supported companies all over the world and across a wide range of industries such as;
WE CAN CAST IN OVER 50 GRADES OF FERROUS & NON FERROUS METALS & SUPER ALLOYS.
We are able to manufacture investment castings in a vast range of metals and alloys including;
We also offer a wide range of treatments, and finishes to enable you to achieve the mechanical & aesthetic properties required for your particular component.
SUPERIOR QUALITY & CUSTOMER SERVICE
We are proud to be the chosen investment casting manufacturer for the most prestigious manufacturers and suppliers in the world. We pride ourselves on quality and customer service. Our recent customer satisfaction survey returned results of 95%. Customers regularly used words such as; accommodating, attentive, conscientious and flexible, in feedback to describe our services. Lestercast pride ourselves on our 5* rated customer service.
Lestercast provide a vast range of inspection services, from visual and gauge checks to x-ray and CMM.
COMMUNICATION – COMPONENT DEVELOPMENT PLAN
All new products come with a Component Development Plan (CDP) as standard. This is an ongoing report where customers are kept up to date with the progress of their new investment castings, whether it be manufactured at our foundry in the UK or manufactured overseas.
RAPID PROTOTYPING SERVICES
3D printed wax patterns are used regularly for prototype parts, eliminating hard tooling & reducing lead times by weeks. Lestercast were one of the first foundries to offer 3d printing as part of their investment casting services, and have now been using 3d printing for over 30 years. Many customers with lower volume parts use the 3d printed wax method as a cheaper alternative when manufacturing their castings. By using the rapid prototyping method and 3d printing the wax patterns for investment casting, the customer is able to produce complex designs which may not be possible with tooling.
LATEST TECHNOLOGY
Lestercast continuously invest in new technology and machinery to retain the highest quality standards and the most advanced techniques. We use Magmasoft simulation software to aid and speed up the design process. This software can detect possible defects by analysing the design and flow with a live simulation. Our in-house techniques, are continuously evolving, allowing us to produce the highest quality components for our customers.
COMPETITIVE PRICES
Alongside our foundry here in Leicestershire UK, Lestercast offer a fully managed overseas foundry manufacturing option. This is ideally suited to the high volume parts and with the addition of stockholding services, many customers take advantage of the lower manufacturing costs. All parts manufactured by our overseas partner are fully quality inspected by Lestercast here in the UK.
EXTENSIVE STOCKHOLDING FACILITY
We offer our customers secure stockholding on site at our Leicester foundry. We are pleased to say that we have just built another new stockholding warehouse to keep up with demand.
