The ASK Chemicals-Group has many years of experience in all aspects of the modern foundry manufacturing process. The Ashland-Südchemie Kernfest (Germany) and Ashland-Avébène (France) research centers are involved in developing state-of-the-art foundry chemical systems for the international foundry industry.
High-quality binders for sand cores and molds such as ASKOCURE®, ECOCURE® and AVEPOX are particularly important foundry chemicals. These cold setting binder systems enabled the groundbreaking gas curing technology based on the Cold-Box process and are now used today extensively in modern automobile industry and machine casting. With the introduction of AVENOL MF and NOVANOL® there are now additional gas curing systems available.
Flagship products of our product line are the established binders ASKURAN® (furan resin), BERANOL® (phenol resin), ASKOSET® (polyurethane resin) and AVENOL NB (Resol-Ester) for No-Bake cold curing, KERNFIX® as hot-box and warm-box hot-curing systems, Croning pre-coated sands as well as ASKONING as Croning ready-to-use molding sands.
INOTEC was developed as an inorganic, low emission binder system, specifically for light metal and non-ferrous metal casting.
For manufacturing high-quality castings we can offer the following high-performance KERNTOP® coatings (alcohol- and water-based coatings, permanent mold, sinter, pre-treatment, full mould and lost foam coatings): CALICO, SILICO®, KERATOP®, SOLITEC®, GRAFOFLEX, MIRATEC®, KERAFILL® AZ + WZ and POLYTOP®, to only mention a few.
Complementary products such as additives, release agents and the ASKOBOND RAPID core adhesive complete our foundry product line.
Our products yield outstanding results when used in the following processes:
- Polyurethane-Cold-Box process
- Polyurethane-No-Bake process
- Furan- and Phenol-No-Bake process
- Resol-Ester-No-Bake process
- Warm-Box process
- Hot-Box process
- Resol CO2 process
- Resol-Methyl Formate process
- Epoxy SO2 process
- Waterglass-Ester process
- Croning process
- Inorganic process
