Introducing our company
Puhakka Metalcasting Company in Cambridge, Ontario Canada is the world's premier producer of high-integrity aluminum castings. Our proprietary Functional Counter-Gravity™ Technology serves as a disruptive change in the aluminum casting industry. Conventional aluminum casting practices simply cannot compare. Puhakka Metalcasting Company is a model of operational excellence and will change the competitive balance of this industry forever.
AWARD-WINNING TECHNOLOGY
In 2017 the Founder, President and Chief Technology Officer of Puhakka Metalcasting Company – Robert (Bob) Puhakka – was awarded the prestigious ‘John Campbell Medal’ by the Institute of Cast Metals Engineers. The ‘John Campbell Medal’ is awarded to celebrate a sustained contribution to the science and understanding of metal casting by virtue of research and development.
Bob Puhakka is the world’s leading exponent of Bifilm Theory and the developer of the Functional Counter-Gravity casting process. In addition to hundreds of technical citations of his work, The COMPLETE CASTING HANDBOOK was dedicated to Bob.
Our Cambridge, Ontario aluminum foundry was custom-built upon the concepts of Bifilm Theory to produce aluminum castings for the cryogenic pump and Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) market.
QUALITY CERTIFICATIONS
Puhakka Metalcasting Company is the only foundry in the world to be Mode 1 qualified by all four major Classification Societies for the manufacture of aluminum castings to be used in Cryogenic LNG applications: Lloyd's Register, DNV, BV and ABS. The increased mechanical property requirements imposed by Lloyd's Register prohibits all other foundries from qualifying.
TECHNOLOGY
Functional Counter Gravity™ Shapecasting Technology pioneered and perfected by Puhakka Metalcasting Company. Application of this technology is yielding results previously believed unattainable. The application of this technology to the world of gravity cast components will change the competitive balance in this sector forever. Aluminum castings made in any other way simply cannot compete. Puhakka Metalcasting Company’s Technology produces the world’s best high-integrity aluminum castings.
Nothing else even comes close.
MARKET SECTORS
Due to our Functional Counter Gravity™ Technology, Puhakka Metalcasting Company is able to produce aluminum castings for a wide variety of market sectors
Exclusive Trident Gate™ and Vortex Gate™ Technology
The world's only foundry custom-built upon the concepts of Bifilm Theory and Campbell's 10 Rules
FOR CRYOGENIC LIQUIFIED NATURAL GAS (LNG) APPLICATIONS