Recently, I was offered a 1997 Volkswagen Golf for the low, low price of free — assuming I could haul it away, as it suffered from a thoroughly borked automatic transmission. Being incapable of saying ...

Tesla has strengthened its intellectual property portfolio with many patent applications filed in the past months. The latest patent application shows improvement to the aluminum alloy used to cast ...

History: Ryboi Ltd. was founded as a die casting company in Hiroshima, Japan, in 1943. It established its North American headquarters in Shelbyville in 1985 as Ryobi Die Casting (USA). It also has ...

In the high-stakes world of automotive manufacturing, die-casting, a technique involving forcing molten metal into a mold cavity under high pressure, has long been important for producing complex ...

The automotive industry has high hopes for the potential of large-scale casting, or megacasting technology. But the adoption of high-pressure die castings to replace assemblages of stamped parts ...

A piece of manufacturing news from Tesla Motors caught our eye, that Elon Musk’s car company plans to die-cast major underbody structures — in effect the chassis — for its cars. All the ingredients ...

Aluminum die-cast components are widely used in automotive and precision machinery applications due to their combination of low weight and structural strength. However, internal defects known as ...

Conventional construction of modern vehicles involves the assembly of myriad sections of stamped sheet metal that are joined together by welding, rivets, and epoxy to form the chassis structure of the ...