Released on November 5, 2007

Esco Turbine Technologies, Portland, Ore., has built a new 3,500-sq.-ft. shell coreroom at its Cleveland metalcasting facility.

The company announced it hopes the new coreroom, which was outfitted with robotic equipment from U.K.-based VA Technologies, “will provide enhanced process control, safety and capacity for further growth.” The coreroom will be used in the production of Esco’s line of equiaxed parts, where the company has seen growth in the aerospace and power generation sectors, according to a press release.

The new shell room equipment allows shell molds to move from pattern wash and through the shell build process (without human intervention), when they become ready for de-wax.

“[The new coreroom] enhances product flow from wax injection through shell build and incorporates a temperature-controlled mold inspection and insulation room,” said Brian Hoover, president, Esco Cleveland. “Wasted motion is significantly reduced, and unnecessary transport of molds is being eliminated.”

With more than 300 employees, Esco Cleveland provides aerospace and power generation hot gas path components, such as directionally solidified, single crystal and equiaxed blades, nozzles, vanes and structural castings.