Your solution provider and pioneer in lightweight design
We are ready to support you during the early design stages as well as during serial production:
- Development of optimized materials, processes and follow-up treatments
- Expertise in stable casting processes
- Product design development for cast solutions
- Lightweight design optimization based on bionic principles
- Reliable testing of prototypes and serial products
Find more about our comprehensive R&D service offer:
Our development teams
Material development lab in Schaffhausen
Both the material and the process play a key role for the performance of a component. With the alloy and the follow-up treatment, we significantly influence the material properties as well as the weight, costs and the behavior of the casting during its entire lifetime. With the right joining technique, such as riveting or bonding, we develop and build optimized interfaces and create innovative lightweight solutions.
We can offer you the complete solution from the first sketch to the real, tangible and validated prototype.
We not only ensure that our castings fulfill their specified requirements. Our key competence is to design and optimize the components regarding lightweight, function, feasibility and cost. We support your project from the first idea, up to a serial product. Please get in touch with us!
Our offer at a glance:
- Feasibility studies
- Product design development
- Lightweight design optimization based on bionic principles
- Topology optimization
- FEA simulations
- Process-optimized design and simulations
- Filling and solidification simulation
We continuously optimize our processes for all our manufacturing technologies. In all our foundries worldwide, we focus on high quality standards and process stability: with the latest production lines and decades of experience.
Accredited safety without compromises
Our components offer the safety, quality, and function expected by our customers and by ourselves. In our accredited testing laboratory, we validate solutions and guarantee the high quality of our serial products.
Faster development thanks to validation
With state-of-the-art testing methods we test materials, entire components or required functions during the development phase and evaluate the processes. As a result, development loops between prototyping and serial production can be reduced: optimizing the costs as well as the time frame.
Our R&D lab offers a wide range of accredited testing methods:
- Static tests
- Multi-channel dynamic bench tests with up to four channels
- Impact tests
- Verification of numerical simulation and validation
- Measuring (strain gauge, GOM etc.)
- Prototyping
In addition to the testing of our GF Casting Solutions components, we also validate external products. Get in touch with us!
