Happy New Year

Happy New Year

Happy New Year

Dear business friends,

Please let us to thank you all for your trust last year and we wish you and your loved ones all the best, many successes in professional and private life and especially good health throughout 2024. We believe that this year will be better than 2023 and we are convinced that we will meet the challenges that await us together this year.

Your SAND TEAM

Thank you for visiting our booth at GIFA

Thank you for visiting our booth at GIFA

“Dear customers, suppliers and business partners,

thank you all very much for visiting our booth during the last GIFA 2023 exhibition. It was a great honor and a great pleasure for us to be able to participate as an exhibitor at such a prestigious trade fair and thank you for your valuable time which you dedicated to us. Thanks to the GIFA 2023 fair, we are happy to face many new tasks and challenges not only with existing customers, but also with new foreign business partners that we managed to find thanks to this exhibition. For us, the interest in our products from foreign foundries is a confirmation of our long-term vision and efforts to produce and supply our products not only to foundries in the Czech Republic, but also to foundries throughout Europe and beyond.

Thank you and we look forward to new projects and meeting you again.

I would also like to thank all the employees of our company SAND TEAM who participated in the organization and service of our stand.“

Tomas Bajer
Sales Director

Project Green Foundry LIFE

Project Green Foundry LIFE

SAND TEAM participated in the European Green Foundry Life project as a supplier of the inorganic binder GEOPOL®.
This project aims to promote the use of inorganic binders in ferrous metal foundries and thus reduce the environmental impact around foundries and improve the working environment in foundries. The project addressed emissions from casting and the issues of regeneration, storage, landfilling and composting of foundry sands.
The project partners were European foundries and research institutions (Poland, Spain, Italy, Finland, Estonia, France, Germany).
Presentations of the project results in the form of webinars are currently taking place.
Project website: https://greenfoundry-life.com/

WE CONDEMNS THE RUSSIAN AGRESSION AGAINST UKRAINE!

WE CONDEMNS THE RUSSIAN AGRESSION AGAINST UKRAINE!

Our company unequivocally disagrees and condemns the unleashing of war in Ukraine and rejects the aggression that is destroying the integrity of the independent state and the democratic values of Ukraine. We believe that all possible means, including economic sanctions, must be expended, even though it is clear that Europe’s economic interests will also be affected.

New arrivals – new release agents and foundry glues

New arrivals – new release agents and foundry glues

Dear customers,
we continue with further development of our own foundry products. We have prepared for you a brand new range of release agents SEPAR SAND. They are widely used to provide easy separation of cores and moulds from core boxes and patterns. It is suitable for no bake curing processes and for all cold curing processes. For much better, easier and safer manipulation it is packed in spray cans.
Separ Sand Al spray – a release agent with fine aluminium pigment
Separ Sand SLC spray – a release agent on silicon basis
For green sand moulding we have developer a powder release agent Separ Sand P
We also offer a foundry glue SAND GLUE CP and CPH (different viscosity) which is used for repairing cores and moulds.

For more details please do not hesitate to contact our technicians:
Kontakt: Ing. Barbora Ostrézí
ostrezi@sandteam.cz
+420 773 772 229

GEOPOL® in FOUNDRY-PLANET.COM

GEOPOL® in FOUNDRY-PLANET.COM

In the foundry industry, the world-famous professional portal www.FOUDRY–PLANET.com recently published an article about our ecological binder GEOPOL®, which brings a better environment and sustainability to foundries today. The article itself can be found here.

In the foundry industry, the world-famous professional portal www.FOUDRY–PLANET.com recently published an article about our ecological binder GEOPOL®, which brings a better environment and sustainability to foundries today. The article itself can be found here.

 

Certification renewal

Certification renewal

At the beginning of May, our company’s joint efforts were successfully completed by obtaining the certification of the quality and environmental management system according to the ISO 9001: 2015 and ISO 14001: 2015 standards.

We have had the system in place for about fifteen years ago, with certification being suspended since 2016. We have successfully built on previous certifications held in 2007, 2010 and 2013. As in the past, the certification company Lloyd’s Register was selected to assess compliance and assess application. The auditor thoroughly examined the processes, activities and areas of the established quality and environmental management system. The result is a positive evaluation and confirmation of compliance with audit criteria and recommendations for issuing a certificate. The scope of certification has been extended to the area of ​​Research.

We believe that certification will streamline the management of all activities, increase the positive evaluation of our company and bring us closer to winning new contracts.

Link to downloadable certificates.

 

Laboratory core shooter for inorganic systems cured by heat.

Laboratory core shooter for inorganic systems cured by heat.

Our laboratory now has a small core shooting machine, which is used to support and develop GEOPOL® W TECHNOLOGY – curing by heat of core box and warm air.
An aluminum corebox is installed on the core shooter for three test specimens for bend test. The core box is heated through steel plates by electricity. The core shooter has an additional device that allows to harden the test specimens by blowing warm air. The fact that it is now possible to produce test specimens directly on the core shooting machine has brought a significant approximation to the real production of cores. In addition, it is possible to produce a large number of test specimens in a relatively short time, which significantly speeds up the entire testing process.

GEOPOL technology in foundry SD slevárny in Lupenice

GEOPOL technology in foundry SD slevárny in Lupenice

The inorganic GEOPOL® technology was tested in the foundry on a mobile continuous mixer Spartan 305P from Omega, which company SAND TEAM lends for tests. The technology was first tested here on 25 February 2020 and replaced the original technology based on alkaline-phenolic resin, which was not suitable for the foundry due to the impact on the environment and the health of employees. As soon as the foundry management was convinced that it was possible to produce the entire range (molds and cores) using GEOPOL® technology, they anchored the technology in their production process. Since 11 March 2020, the foundry has been operating only GEOPOL® technology on its continuous mixer.

Technologie GEOPOL Technologie GEOPOL