Growing portfolio of VDG P690-aligned valve investment castings
Super Quali Cast- one of the world's leading investment casting foundries—produces a diverse range of investment castings for valves. Our portfolio includes industry essentials such as ball and gate valves, and tailored options such as cryogenic and float valves. At our ISO-certified foundries, we cast the majority of the components that make up a valve system: from valve bodies to flanges, bonnets, actuators, and more. We specialize in precision investment castings for industrial valves using standard alloys and superalloys engineered to withstand dynamic flow, high pressure, extreme temperatures, and corrosive environments.
Our USP lies in taking a design from concept to creation, carrying out the entirety of production in-house. We supply finished castings to businesses in India and export to OEMs and tier-1 valve manufacturers in 15-plus countries.
Learn how our casting methodology and delivery discipline can fulfill your project requirements.
Why Valve Manufacturers Globally Trust Us
Valve manufacturers and component suppliers in multiple countries trust us to meet their needs for superior industrial valve castings. This is why:
Production Capacity
Scalable infrastructure with an annual production capacity of 3600 metric tons spread over a range of isolation, control, check, pressure protection, and special-purpose valve components.
Experience
40-plus years of investment casting experience with more than a million pieces designed, cast, machined, and delivered to date.
Logistics Support
Freight-worthy packaging with bubble bags and rubber articles for component protection. Exporting to major destinations worldwide, including the USA, UK, South Korea, Turkey, Romania, New Zealand, Australia, Germany, Canada, Luxembourg, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, and UAE.
Casting Infrastructure
Producing investment castings from 7 grams to 200 kilograms, including components up to 600 × 600 × 600 mm.
Precision Output
Manufacturing investment valve castings with less than 3 Ra surface finish as is and ≤ 0.8 Ra with machining.
Superior Tolerance
Our investment castings for industrial valves meet and exceed tolerances determined by VDG P690 D1, ISO 8062 CT7, and IS 11166 Class-2 standards.
Rigorous Inspection
Intermediate and final inspection that covers Coordinate measurement, Contour, Surface roughness, Spectro, Tensile, UT, LPT, IMPACT, MPI, Microscopic, Hardness, and Pressure testing.
Lower Rejection Rates
Up to 1% rejection rate for mature jobs and up to 7% rejection rate for new projects. We have made significant improvements in our manufacturing process, bringing our rejection rates down to 5000 pieces per million parts.
ESG Support
Our manufacturing meets CBAM objectives, helps businesses lower their Scope 3 emissions, and stay environmentally compliant.
Our Investment Casting Portfolio for Valves
Here's a quick look at our current portfolio of investment castings for industrial valves, categorized by function. Our castings for valve industry are engineered to perform reliably under demanding pressure, temperature, and corrosive conditions across critical industrial applications.
Isolation (On/Off) Valves
Ball Valve
Quarter-turn valves with a spherical ball to provide fast and reliable shut-off for excellent sealing in high-pressure systems.
Gate Valve
Linear motion valves using a gate mechanism to open flow paths and offer seamless media flow with negligible drop in pressure
Knife Gate Valve
Sharp gate mechanism designed to cut through slurries, pulp, and other viscous media and provide optimum sealing.
Butterfly Valve
Quarter-turn disc valve suited to compact installation and provides economical flow isolation across large piping systems.
Plug Valve
Quarter-turn valve using a cylindrical or tapered plug to achieve a tight seal.
Piston Valve
Uses a piston and ring mechanism to provide a superior seal in steam-based and other industrial operations.
Diaphragm Valve
Uses an elastic membrane to toggle media flow and offer a superior seal. Ideal for systems with abrasive media.
Pinch Valve
Elastomeric sleeve-based mechanism that handles corrosive and abrasive media. Simple to operate and easy to maintain.
Control & Regulation Valves
Globe Valve
Linear motion valve designed for accurate throttling and frequent toggling, where precision control is more important than pressure loss.
Y-type Globe Valve
Angled-body design that reduces pressure loss while maintaining control accuracy and capacity of globe valves.
Needle Valve
Features a slender needle tapered for excellent throttling in instrumentation and high-pressure systems.
Flow Control Valve
Maintains optimal flow levels in the piping system, ensuring downstream operational efficiency and safeguarding instruments.
Pressure Reducing Valve
Maintains desired pressure levels throughout the system by automatically lowering inlet pressure to predetermined levels.
Hydraulic Control Valve
Controls fluid direction and pressure within hydraulic circuits to ensure that machinery operates safely.
Thermostatic Mixing Valve
Blends hot and cold fluids to ensure operational temperatures safe for the system, machines, and operators.
Solenoid Valve
Electronically operated valves crucial in systems that demand rapid flow throttling and secure shut-off operations.
Angle Valve
A type of globe valve where the inlet and outlet are perpendicular to each other. Effective for systems that require compact directional changes.
Non-return Valves
Check Valve
Allows fluid movement in only one direction, automatically blocking reverse flow to protect equipment and systems.
Non-return Valve
Leverages valve design to prevent backflow of fluids, permitting only unidirectional flow without the use of actuators in the process.
Swing Check Valve
Uses a hinged-disc mechanism that swings open with forward fluid flow but shuts off with reverse flow.
Lift Check Valve
Better suited to pressurized systems, this valve type leverages a vertical lift that goes up during forward flow and comes down otherwise.
Wafer Check Valve
A compact and lightweight check valve variant, installed between flanges in a piping system to stop reverse fluid flows.
Foot Valve
A special kind of check valve, it is attached to the bottom of a pump's suction and uses a strainer to prevent debris entry into the system.
Flapper NRV Valve
Similar to a swing check valve, uses a flapper system that opens during forward flows but closes down during reverse flows.
Pressure Protection Valves
Safety Valve
Automatically releases pressure from steam and gas-sensitive systems, thereby maintaining safe pressure levels.
Safety Relief Valve
Combines safety and relief mechanisms to provide optimal pressure conditions in gas and liquid systems.
Pressure Relief Valve
Releases excess pressure from gas and fluid-centric systems whenever pressure exceeds safety pre-determined thresholds.
Thermal Relief Valve
Protects closed liquid systems from the effects of increased pressure due to thermal expansion, preventing piping damage and failure.
Vacuum Relief Valve
Takes in air automatically whenever internal pressure drops, thereby preventing internal collapse and system damage.
Blowdown Valve
For fast discharge of waste water, sludge, and other media from boiler systems, ensuring safe working pressure.
Special Purpose Valves
Cryogenic Valve
Cast with specialized alloys to provide a leak-proof seal at extremely low temperature conditions.
Double Block & Bleed Valve
Dual valve system with a bleed vent that supports piping system maintenance and troubleshooting.
Three-way Ball Valve
Multi-port ball valve that can distribute, divert, and mix fluids across multiple flow channels using quarter-turn operations.
Float Valve
Uses a buoyant mechanism to regulate the level of liquid in tanks, reservoirs, and vessels without using electricity.
Manufacturing Capability - Investment Castings for Valves
As a custom valve casting foundry, Super Quali Cast combines skilled people, advanced systems, and proven processes to deliver precision investment casting for valves and support valve manufacturing across diverse industrial applications.
Designing For Manufacturability (DFM)
Our experts simplify product design, standardize tooling, improve material usage, run liquid metal simulations, and optimize gating to lower ramp-up times and stay cost-effective. More so for prototype development for new designs. At the end of this process, we provide a technical feasibility sheet, assembly design, FAIR, and PPAP.
Rapid Prototyping
We simulate components based on CAD drawings, using Siemens Unigraphics. The team uses them to create prototypes using 3D printing and silicon tooling. This allows us to iterate in rapid cycles, with the entire prototyping for investment casting taking only two to three weeks.
Engineered Alloys
While we work with a range of standard alloys such as stainless steel, iron-based derivatives, bronze, copper, nickel, brass, and superalloys, we also support custom mixes. We can cast valve components with your proprietary alloy or help create an engineered solution that meets application-specific requirements.
Melting Capacity
We have three furnaces in our foundry, two crucibles that ingest up to 300 kgs and another that can handle up to 500 kgs. Our foundries are modern and work seamlessly with common and superalloys to meet every lost-wax casting need.
Production lines
We operate three production lines across our two foundries. Key processes include pattern production and inspection, wax injection (semi-automatic), wax assembly, shell building, and casting.
Daily Production
We have the capacity to produce up to 20,000 pieces in 24 hours. This applies to simple, legacy, and easy-to-cast designs and is subject to change with complex designs and/or materials.
Machine Shop
“As is” castings are introduced to the machine shop where they undergo machining, drilling, and reaming operations, as required. This improves surface roughness, ensures tight fit on mating surfaces, and delivers an all-around better surface finish. We use the best-in-class CNC machines (three- and four-axis), paired with ZEISS Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMMs).
Traceability
We use industry-standard ERP solutions engineered for investment casting to implement traceability. This allows us to trace a faulty component to its raw material lot and the technician responsible for casting it.
In-house Inspection
Our in-house inspection helps us deliver defect-free components. We pair our testing equipment with trained NDT level 2 personnel to perform spectrometric checks, liquid penetrant inspection, magnetic particle inspection, microscopic checks, X-rays, and dye-penetrant tests. We also check for hardness, toughness, strength, and dimensional accuracy.
Packaging & logistics
Our packaging incorporates fumigated wooden pallets, VCI covers, and corrugated boxes with proper separators. Furthermore, we use bubble bags to protect individual castings and cover machined areas with customized rubber articles for added protection. Our sea-worthy packaging and support for third-party audit preparedness help us provide logistics support to 15+ countries.
Curious about production line allocations, engineered alloys, and DFM for your project?
Materials Used for Investment Casting Valves
Our material expertise spans more than 50 varieties of alloys for manufacturing precision valve components and investment castings for valves. Here's a look into some of the common materials we use, along with their ASTM values.
Carbon Steel (Standard & low-temperature)
Used for general casting where corrosion resistance is not the primary concern.
| ASTM Grade | DIN Standard |
|---|---|
| WCB | 1.0619 (GP240GH) |
| WCC | |
| LCB | 1.6220 (G20Mn5) |
| LCC | 1.625 (240GR) |
Austenitic Stainless Steels (Corrosion resistant)
Alloyed with chromium and nickel to resist oxidation and chemical attacks.
| ASTM Grade | DIN Standard |
|---|---|
| CF8 | 1.4308 (GX5CrNi19-10), 1.4309 (GX2CrNi19-11) |
| CF8M | 1.4408 (GX5CrNiMo19-11-2) |
| CF3M | 1.4409 (GX2CrNiMo19-11-2) |
| CK3MCUN |
Duplex & Super Duplex Stainless Steels (Pitting resistance)
Balanced 50/50 austenitic-ferritic microstructure for increased strength.
| ASTM Grade | DIN Standard |
|---|---|
| CD3MN/4A | 1.4470 (GX2CrNiMoN22-5-3) |
| CD4MCuN/1B | |
| CD3MWCuN/5A | 1.4417 (GX2CrNiMoN25-7-3) |
| LCC |
Low Alloy & High-temperature Steels (Creep resistance)
Chromium and Molybdenum (Cr-Mo) alloyed for oxidation/scaling resistance at high temperature.
| ASTM Grade | DIN Standard |
|---|---|
| WC9 | 1.7379/80 (G12CrMo9-10) |
| C5 | 1.7363 (GX12CrMo5) |
| C12 | 1.7389 (12CrMo10-1) |
Martensitic Stainless Steel & Nickel Alloys (Extreme wear and corrosion resistance)
Heavy-duty materials for extremely demanding applications.
| ASTM Grade | DIN Standard |
|---|---|
| CA-15 | 1.4011 (GX12Cr12) |
| CA-40 | 1.4028 (GX30Cr13 / GX20Cr14) |
| CU5MCuC | 2.4858 (G-NiCr21Mo) |
Apart from the above, we also support casting with custom alloys and materials that meet JIS, EN, and other standards. For a complete list of materials we cast with, please visit our materials options page.
How we Manufacture Investment Castings for Valves
As one of the leading industrial valve castings manufacturers, we leverage data, automation, and trained personnel to produce precision investment castings for valves.
Preliminary Stage
Our team designs for manufacturability, engages in rapid prototyping, and runs fast iteration cycles to deliver an optimized prototype that simplifies design, reduces weight, and is cost-effective.
Tertiary Stage
Mechanical, chemical, and geometric final inspection for near-defect-free output, followed by sorting and packaging for domestic supply and international export.
Secondary Stage
This is the stage where the bulk of the manufacturing happens.
- Molds & Casts: Our technicians create wax molds, attach them to a sprue to form a wax runner tree, and invest the tree up to eight times to create robust ceramic casts.
- Dewaxing & Pouring: Ceramic casts are placed in an autoclave to melt the wax quickly and prevent burn-in. It's then fired in an oven for curing, after which molten metal is gradually gravity-poured into the cavity and allowed to take shape.
- Knockout & Fettling: Removing ceramic casts manually via knocking or using high-pressure water jets. The extracted valve components then undergo gate removal, basic grinding, and initial cleaning.
- Heat treatment & Machining: Components are heat-treated to improve metallurgical properties, and they undergo machining operations that significantly lower their surface roughness and deliver tight tolerances.
IP, ESG, and Compliance for Industrial Valve Castings
We deliver assurance for every industrial valve casting project we work on. Here's how we do it.
Intellectual Property
Every project begins with an NDA that serves to assure partners that their data is never shared, especially without their written approval. We store proprietary knowledge such as designs and material specifications in secure servers for optimal security and compliance with domestic data residency requirements. While the design remains the property of the customer, Super Quali Cast retains the die and molds, unless otherwise agreed upon.
ESG
The European Union is one of our key export markets. Businesses in the union work with us because of our CBAM support, and we can furnish the same if required. Our 2.5 MW solar power plant helps in lowering our carbon footprint and supports broader environmental goals in tune with SDG 7, SDG 9, and SDG 13. We are ISO 14001-certified and actively working towards an EcoVadis certification.
Compliance
We deal with compliance at the gross level as well as the individual casting level. Our investment castings for the valve industry meet VDG P690 D1, ISO 8062 CT7, and IS 11166 Class-2 standards, ensuring precision, reliability, and global compliance. Additionally, we are ISO 9001 and 45001 certified, and are a PED, AD Merkblatt W0, and Norsok-certified investment valve casting foundry.
Industries We Serve
Super Quali Cast is one of the leading industrial valve castings manufacturers, supplying precision investment castings for valves to OEMs across multiple industries worldwide.
Oil & Gas
OEMs depend on us to deliver valve castings for a range of isolation, check, and safety valves that help move crude and refined oil and gas upstream and downstream.
Utility (Wastewater)
Our assembled knife gate valves and pinch valves seamlessly handle sludge, sewage, and abrasive media and protect sewerage.
Power Generation
A range of pressure relief valves that work to release excess pressure, maintain optimal pressure in the system, and ensure operational safety.
Petro & Chemical Processing
We deliver corrosion-resistant valve components that work with a range of challenging chemicals and prevent reverse flow.
HVAC
We deliver valve solutions for HVAC companies that deliver seamless control and help maintain piping systems.
General Manufacturing
A wide range of valve components for end use in general manufacturing.
Trust Us with Your Investment Casting Requirements
Choosing the right investment casting manufacturer for your valve components shouldn't be difficult. Our experts help OEMs optimize designs, select materials, and manufacture precision investment castings for valves with reliable global delivery.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I choose Investment Casting or Sand Casting?
You should choose investment casting if you are looking to manufacture small and intricate designs at scale that weigh up to 200 kgs. For larger weights that don't need tight tolerances, sand casting is the suitable choice.
Does Super Quali Cast provide samples before placing bulk orders?
We can provide existing prototypes that are not covered by an NDA. These work to give you a fair idea of the degree of complexity, materials, and tolerances we work with. For samples for your custom valve design, please speak with our experts.
Do you have a minimum order quantity for investment valve castings?
Our MOQ for a project that deals with standard designs and materials is ________. MOQ for a custom order will be different, subject to design complexity, material choice, and delivery destination.
Do you provide freight insurance?
We do not provide freight insurance ourselves since we are an investment casting foundry. When handling delivery, we include it in our costs. Where the customer arranges logistics, we expect them to handle freight insurance.
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