• Dovre, Cast Iron Foundry.
    The "all-in-one" solution for your cast-iron design, engineering and production needs.

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Knowing what you want is one thing.
But how does your idea break down into parts and panels?
Dovre experts will assist you to draft the design you have in mind. Their insight and experience will be put at your service to enhance your original concept from A to Z. Using the latest precision technology, your idea will be sculpted into pattern plates to pin-point perfection. The base to cast a product that exceeds your expectations. A product you’ll be proud to put your name on.
Enamelling, assembly and packaging may also be organized to your wishes. Because at Dovre, if you know what you want, we do our utmost to make sure you get it.

Tom Gehem, CEO

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Cast Iron

Cast Iron

Our expertise in cast iron

Grey cast iron you can rely on. We know because we test it for strength, durability and bendability. It’s one of the steps we take to make sure you receive nothing but the best.

Foundry
Pattern Shop
Engineering
Processing & Assembly
Enameling
Packaging & Shipping
Quality Standards

Foundry

Foundry

The cast iron production process begins with our furnaces. Powered with electricity, oxygen and natural gas, they fire at up to 1,500°C and melt our raw materials down into a mix perfectly balanced for grey cast iron. Our moulding line produces green sand blocks using our fine sand grains, ensuring absolute precision in your cast iron product.

Furnaces

Furnaces:

  • 1 induction furnace with a melting rate of 6 tonnes/hour. Power rating 3.7 MW.
  • 4 oxygen/natural gas rotary furnaces, each with a melting capacity of 20 tonnes/2.5 hours.
  • 1 induction holding furnace with a capacity of 4 tonnes.
  • 1 gas-fired holding furnace with a capacity of 6 tonnes.
  • 1 induction holding furnace with a capacity of 7 tonnes.
  • 1 induction holding furnace with a capacity of 32 tonnes.
Moulding Lines

Moulding Lines:

  • 1 Disamatic 270A - With a maximum of 400 moulds/hour, suitable for moulds with dimensions of up to 950 X 700 X 650 mm.
  • We use 0.16 mm-diameter green sand for our moulds.
Pouring Devices

Pouring Devices:

  • Each of the Disamatic moulding lines has its own pouring machine and individual laser-controlled stopper rod system.
Laboratory

Laboratory:

  • Spectral-analysis machine.
  • Tensile strength-testing machine.
  • 2 HB hardness testing machines.
Iron Specifications

Iron Specifications:

  • Grey cast iron: EN-GJL 150-300.
  • Special cast-iron alloys, available with extra resistance to wear and tear, heat or impact.
  • Casting weight range: 0.1 – 30 kg.

Best of all? This is the just the beginning. We have more highly-specialised equipment to make sure we can meet your needs. But supposing you need a piece we can’t provide? You can rely on us to outsource it to a reliable partner who upholds our standards. It’s all part of our commitment to getting you everything you’re looking for. Do you have any questions? Don’t hesitate to contact us.

Pattern Shop

Pattern Shop

The main ingredients in pattern plates? Accuracy and expertise. All the pattern plates, model plates and moulding plates designed and created at Dovre are made by our highly experienced specialists and your input. With digital technology and 3D design programs, you’ll be able to see your ideas translate onto the computer screen at the hands of our experts. Afterwards, our milling cutter machine will cut your aluminium pattern plates with ultimate precision. Alternatively, you can make the most of our extensive experience crafting polyurethane pattern plates and model plates for a more traditional approach.

For the high quality standards and pinpoint accuracy in your pattern plates, Dovre are just a call away. Turn your idea into a reality today. Contact us now to find out what we can do for you.

The benefit of our many years of experience is at your service. It’s supported by:

  • 2 CNC milling machine
  • 2 conventional milling machines
  • 2 lathes
  • 1 Hedelius C80 milling cutter

Engineering

Engineering

" Who’s the best person to transform your idea into reality? You. And there’s no reason you can’t do it. With guidance and support from our expert team, you’ll not just put your idea on paper, you’ll transform it into the perfect design. Thanks to digital patterning and computer modelling your product will come to life in three dimensions before your very eyes. And look better than you would ever have believed.

If design doesn’t sound like your cup of tea? Or you would prefer to leave it to our experts? It’s no problem at all. You decide the extent to which you want to be involved. We happily guide you and support you as required and offer our insight to help you strengthen and enhance your original concept.

Your high-durability aluminium pattern plates are then cut on our ultra-modern Hedelius C80 milling cutter under the watchful eye of our experienced engineers. Would you like to know more? Or is it time to get your project started? Don’t hesitate to contact us! "

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Processing
& Assembly

Processing
& Assembly

After your newly cast iron cools, the green sand moulds are shaken loose to leave your cast-iron product ready for shot blasting . Fully cleaned and polished, the examination and testing phase begins. Our committed team carefully assembles everything by hand ensuring the legal requirements for your country or product are followed to the letter. We also follow the supervision and quality guidelines set by the Dovre group, your assurance for knowledgeable, careful construction. If your product requires parts from third parties, you can ask us to make any necessary arrangements. From glass to locking systems and everything in between.

The mechanical production line

Our production team works in conjunction with a high-tech production system:

  • Mitutoyo 3D measuring machine with a range of 850 x 700 x 600 mm.
  • Tensile strength-testing machine.
  • Hardness testers.

Enameling

Enameling

Would you like to add an extra touch of beauty with an enamel finish? Or do you want to add colour and shine to your cast iron? Look no further than our enamelling facilities. Like a good wine, our enamellists have improved their craftsmanship over time. With two application lines and two tunnel furnaces at your service, you can rely on high-quality enamelling and glaze coating. Thanks to our follow-up tests for tint and hue, uniform layer thickness, hardness and surface roughness, you can rest assured your enamel coating will be nothing but the best. Let’s agree on which colour best suits your design.

Technical tests

Your enamel is thoroughly tested for:

  • Surface roughness.
  • Layer thickness.
  • Enamel hardness.
  • Colour, with computer-based spectrometer testing.

Packaging
& Shipping

Packaging
& Shipping

Fully assembled and virtually glowing with a top-quality enamel finish, your product looks as good as you dreamt it would. Make sure it stays this way. With proper packaging you can protect your cast iron from scratches, impact and other forms of damage. And not just when it’s being shipped and handled. We know how important it is to have an item packaged correctly when you need to store it in your warehouse or stock room.

Of course you need to get your order there first. We will gladly arrange the shipping or delivery of your order. Just let us know the address and we will make sure it’s there on time. And when we say on time, we mean on time. If you’re a little short on space? No problem. Just ask us to store your order until you’re ready for it. It would be our pleasure.

Quality Standards

Quality Standards

Our highly-trained, experienced and reliable team know the ins and outs not just of the equipment in our foundry. They don’t just know what we are capable of as a foundry: they know exactly what can be accomplished with cast iron, and more importantly, they know how to accomplish it.

We always aim for the absolute highest quality. You are welcome and encouraged to take part in the engineering process with our guidance and supervision. Every decision you make is analysed and enhanced to produce a stronger, higher quality product before your pattern plates are made. And after casting? Your product is tested and examined for accuracy, metal quality, strength, durability, hardness and even smoothness. Because a product is not of high enough quality if it doesn’t meet the standards we demand.

Laboratory
  • Spectral-analysis machine.
  • Tensile strength-testing machine.
  • 2 HB hardness testing machines.

All-in-one

All-in-one

Our workflow from A to Z

Dovre is here to meet your cast-iron needs. Your project is brought to life when you work in partnership with our dedicated specialists, proficient in the latest state-of-the-art production techniques. We use our experience and expertise to every step of the project runs as smoothly as possible. From foundry to casting, design to development, assembly to enamelling. We even take care of your packaging and transport needs. The only thing we don’t do? Delays.

Make the most of our experience at every stage of your project:

BRAINSTORMING
14.3|23.6|1000
DESIGN
14.3|43.09|1200
COST CALCULATION
14.3|63.19|1400
LABORATORY / RESEARCH
14.3|82.47|1600
TESTING & CERTIFICATION
72.50|15.05|1800
PRODUCTION
72.50|34.84|2000
PROCESSING ASSEMBLY
72.50|54.53|2200
PACKAGING
72.50|74.33|2400
TRANSPORT
72.50|94.33|2600

At Tulikivi, we only offer our demanding clients the very best. So our commitment to high quality products stood first and foremost in our search for a reliable, skilled partner. Dovre turns out to meet all our high standard quality and engineering requirements in order to become a long-lasting, preferred business partner. Supply chain management is movement of information, material and money. Our target is to use Lean philosophy in logistic chains and even though there is long, geographical distances between us, we have managed and developed well together


Tulikivi Oyj - Finland

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Are you looking for the finest quality cast iron production? Or a production facility where your every need is met? From Design to development and enamelling to transport? Don't hesitate to contact us.