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Innovation

Located at the very heart of the materials forming process, foundries are as such subject to strong competition.
It is therefore essential to constantly review foundry products with respect to performance and reliability.
 
CTIF plays an active role in this search for progress either through the needs of its customers, or by taking part in the strategic techno-watch of failure or technical innovation along two major paths:

Performance improvement

All major technological progress is dependent on improvement of the performance of existing materials or on the appearance of new materials providing better performance. Foundries are not exempt from such logic, and they in fact increasingly contribute towards it.
 
The search for ever greater specific properties has therefore become a permanent concern of foundries and designers of castings in order to reduce the size and weight of parts wherever possible, and therefore provide ever increasing performance parts. Foundries can then remain more competitive and consequently conquer new markets.


Increased reliability


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All technological processes are based upon materials whose reliability must be controlled with respect to the prevailing techno-economic stakes. Thus, any progress involves increasing this reliability. Cast metallic materials are also obviously involved in this approach and with patent ever increasing success.
 
It is therefore essential nowadays to be able to predict the in-service behaviour of castings and one of the keys to success resides in particular in being able to anticipate and to measure the impact of any defects on such behaviour.
 
Enhanced reliability is a fundamental path for R&D at CTIF, in combination with work on the implementation of controlled defects and functional prediction using modelling confronted with real tests.


Thanks to its experts in metallurgy, processes and modelling, CTIF is in a position to also provide support on its customers’ industrial sites or design offices.
Equipped with a high-performance test unit, CTIF is capable of elaborating or manufacturing special parts or alloys.