What Are The Uses of Copper Alloy Castings?

Thanks to their multifaceted properties and utilities, copper alloys have been applied in various industries, including architecture, automotive, electrical, tubes, pipes, fittings, fuel gas, electronics, marine, machined products, and telecommunications. (Source: www.copper.org)

Stinco’s casting services produce parts mainly in marine, machinery, and conducting materials for electricity. Check Applications for Stinco’s products.

Copper alloys have been extensively used in marine and offshore applications. In marine applications, copper alloys are popular materials for tubes, pumps, and valves, thanks to their corrosion resistance. Copper alloys are protected by a layer of film and therefore can resist corrosion in seawater. The same corrosion resistance can also protect offshore equipment susceptible to damage by the atmospheric zone. Check Stinco’s Applications for marine equipment.

Copper alloys are also ideal for parts subject to a corrosive environment. Brass, phosphor bronze, and aluminum bronze are often used to produce machinery or vehicle parts, requiring wear and corrosion resistance.  Common components based on Copper alloys include bushes, fluid bearings, worm gears, worm wheels, nuts, gears, seals, slide boards, rings, shaft sleeves, bearing housings, and rotor housings. Copper alloy based parts and gears are often used in machinery, such as pressing machines, injection molding machines, grinding machines, and index plates. Typical copper alloy applications in automotive components include gears for concrete trucks, stone crushers, compressors, and reducers. Check Stinco’s Applications for gears.

Copper has superb conductivity and therefore is a popular material in manufacturing electrical applications such as cables, bus bars, transformer windings, motor stators, and motor rotors. However, copper alloys’ conductivity might be slightly compromised because of the addition of other alloying metals. Check here to find the levels of conductivity of various copper alloys.
(Source:https://copperalliance.org.uk/about-copper/conductivity-materials/)