Farrar Corporation
Farrar Corporation
Norwich, Kansas
Farrar Foundry Equipment:
Farrar Corporation, located in Norwich, Kansas, offers comprehensive facilities combining all the services of a machine shop and ductile iron foundry to meet the needs of our customers. This unique combination works well for the customers to maximize efficiency and minimize cost of manufacturing. Versatility and full service are our keys to efficiency and customer satisfaction. We can help you design a part, build patterns and machine tooling, pour castings and machine them to a finished product all at one location.
Let us help you solve your design, material, casting, machining, assembly, quality and delivery problems.
Capacity Available:
- Plant is currently designed to handle up to 60 tons melt per day on a two shift basis. Anticipated expansion to 120 tons melt per day on a two shift basis. Foundry new in February, 1976-49,000 square feet. Specialize in castings weighing from ounces to 65 pound.
Cleaning Room:
- 1 Setco single end snag grinder; 4 Fox single end snag grinders; 1 Wheelabrator with skip loader.
Core Department:
- 2 Redford coreblowers for Iso-cure; 1 Beardsley & Piper CB 15 semiautomatic coreblower for ISO-cure; 2 Dependable shell core machines (manual); 1 SF6CA Beardsley & Piper shell core machine (automatic); 1 Shalco U-180 Shell core machine (automatic).
Material Poured:
- 100% ductile iron of the following grades; 60-40-18, 65-45-12, 80-55-06, 100-70-03. NOTE: All grades available as cast depending on specific casting size. In certain cases additional alloying or heat treating may be required. All grades of Austempered Ductile Iron (ADI).
Melting Department:
- 2 Brown Boveri IT5 2200 KW coreless induction furnaces with one power supply, melt capacity 4.8 tons/hour; 1 Gaylord charge dryer; 3 ton overhead bridge crane for charge makeup and raw material handling. All raw materials are stored indoors.
Molding Department:
- Two (2) Roberts Sinto FBN-2S, 20 X 24 flask, automatic molding machines, with variable cope and drag heights: One (1) Roberts Sinto FBM-1, 14 X 19 flask, automatic molding machine with variable cope and drag heights: 75B Beardsley and Piper Speedmullor with Hartley Controls.
Pouring Floor:
- All molds from Roberts Sinto on Vulcan Tru-Flo II automatic mold handling systems. All dumped molds conveyed through shake-out by General Kinematics oscillating conveyors; 1 General Kinematics Vibra Drum; 1 General Kinematics Screener Seperator.
Quality Control Equipment:
- 1 Leco GDS-400A atomic emission spectrometer with 15 standard analytical channels, 1 Melt Lab carbon & silicon analyzer, Metallographic polishing equipment, 1 Nikon microscope, 1 King tester Brinell hardness machine, 1 Pin-Brinell hardness tester, sand characteristics tested automatically on every load of sand with Hartley Controls, complete chemical analysis ran every hour on the iron in the furnace, carbon and silicon checked at furnace prior to tapping, and each ladle is checked for nodularity.
Management Quality Policy:
It is the policy of Farrar Corporation to maintain a comprehensive quality program which will continually improve product quality, reduce quality costs, and increase customer satisfaction and confidence in our products.
It is our objective to develop the reputation of being one of the most reliable suppliers to our customers. To achieve this goal, we will strive to be the highest quality supplier in the industry.
Farrar Corporation endorses the concepts of continuous quality improvement and total quality assurance which stress an integrated business management approach to quality. This approach emphasizes that quality is the responsibility of every employee.
Mission/Vision Statement:
Farrar Corporation is a family and employee owned manufacturing Company dedicated to providing the highest quality iron products to our manufacturing customers throughout the United States.
As a customer focused organization, we are dedicated to our internal and ultimate customers and will strive to meet or exceed their expectations through continuous improvement in product, services and processes. Our operating philosophy is to obsessively serve existing customers and markets while searching for new opportunities. Internally we will embrace progressive operational methods, moderate fiscal policy and employee involvement culture.
We will actively support safety, the protection of the environment, and the improvement of our stakeholders' quality of life and the local community.
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