Where do the supplies of raw materials and equipment come from?
Ferroalloys, alkali metal salts, boric acid, bentonite, etc. are used as the main chemical components. The main suppliers and delivery conditions are presented in the table:
| Provider | name of raw materials | Approximate price |
| MPI (Chelyabinsk) | Ferroalloys | 45…80 rub/kg |
| DOMINIK GEORG LUH TECHNOGRAFIT GMBH (Germany), Ekaterinburg | Graphite electrodes | 400…600 rub/t |
| BW KUNSTSTOFFE EK (Germany), Biysk, Belgorod | Electric foundry furnaces | On request |
| SMO Crl (Italy) | Press forms | 20000…30000 |
| SBM InfiSPA (Italy) | Mechanical and loading equipment | 80000…120000 |
Domestic raw materials are used, as well as those supplied from China, Sweden, and Ukraine.
Types of casting equipment:
- Foundry automatic machines and complexes;
- Horizontal continuous casting lines;
- Foundry furnaces (vacuum, induction, melting, calcining);
- Furnaces for sintering and burning (vacuum, high-vacuum, super-temperature, vacuum-hydrogen, vacuum-compression, spark plasma sintering;
- Laboratory furnaces for vacuum soldering;
- Vacuum furnaces for heat treatment (annealing, nitriding, hardening in a gas or oil environment, crystallization);
- Crucible resistance furnaces (continuous or cyclic type);
- Core machines of various types and sizes;
- Vibrating tables;
- Molding mixers;
- Auxiliary mechanisms and devices (tilters, transport units, equipment for cleaning castings, chemical analysis of castings, etc.)
