Project goal:

A significantly improved product – a die-cast aluminium alloy of higher quality due to reduced porosity, increased shape and dimensional stability and/or better mechanical properties.

Planned effects to be achieved:

The project will result in a significantly improved product – a die-cast of higher quality. Creating this innovative casting also requires work on the development and implementation of a casting technology under reduced pressure in the cavity (special die-casting technology).

The following specific results were planned to be achieved:

• reducing the porosity of castings to no more than 1.5% and meeting the requirements of class II according to ASTM E505,
• increasing the heat treatment temperature – target value: 300 ⷪC,
• increasing the tensile strength to at least 240MPa,
• elongation of the A5 die casting to at least 1.2%,
• reducing the number of rejects to 1.5 kg/100 kg of castings,
• increasing the amount of circulating scrap in the charge to 40 kg/100 kg of liquid metal.

The project is carried out in a consortium with the Lodz University of Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and the Łukasiewicz Research Network – Institute of Technology in Krakow.

Project duration: from 01/07/2020 to 30/06/2023

Project value: PLN 4,961,880.05

Funding value: PLN 3,082,254.77