SBU Foundry of company BRANO a.s. is a casting manufacturer with more than 100 year´s tradition. We are mainly a commercial foundry particularly with orientation on cast sale within EU countries.

Assortment composition of castings production:

• Castings for automotive industry
• Components for construction scaffolding and frameworks
• Castings for electrical industry
• Castings for using in agriculture
• Castings of general use

Melting – middle frequency induction melting oven ABB Twin Power®, computer controlled, installed in 1996. Equipment of melting plant – thermal and spectral analysis, ultrasonic nodularity tester.

We offer a production of following kinds of cast iron:

Malleable and weldable white hearth cast iron

• all kinds as per to EN 1562 (accuracy according to DIN 1684, GTA 16, ISO 8062)
• Weight of castings - till 1,5 kg/pc
• Maximum castings size - 300x250x120 mm

Nodular cast iron as per EN 1563 (grade EN-GJS-400-15, EN-GSJ-450-10 and EN-GSJ-500-7, accuracy according to ISO 8062, CT 8–10, DIN 1680 GTB 13-15)

• Thickness of the wall - 5 – 20 mm
• Weight of castings – till 3 kg / pc
• Maximum castings size – 300x250x120 mm

Moulding – automatic moulding line HWS EFA-SD 2, installed in 2002. Dimensions of frames: 580x460x120 / 120 mm. Cores – method Hot-Box (coated mixture) 96%, Cold-Box 4%.

Heat treatment – cyclic and continuous furnaces with controlled decarbonating atmosphere manufactured by company LUDWIG ESSEN for malleable cast iron production.

Since 2002 the foundry is equipped with new inner defects inspection X-ray equipment Pantak Seifert 225 kV.

We have passed a re-certification audit in 2005 and we have extended audit of quality system management according EN ISO 9001:2000 and ISO/TS 16949:2002. We are carrying certification as per VDA 6.1 for automotive industry, our position to environmental policy is expressed with succesfull certification as per EN ISO 14001.

Photogallery of SBU Foundry

SBU Foundry

Automatic moulding line HWS EFA-SD 2

Core setting

Casting bed of moulding line HWS

Elevator furnace

Workplace of quality management - X-ray and ultrasonic testing