HOME PAGE  ABOUT US - company - history - quality  PRODUCTION - investment casting - M.I.M. process - steel alloys - tolerances - tooling design - measurement instruments SERVICES WHERE WE ARE CONTACT The process of Investment casting dates back to remote ages and it is used by populations and cultures widespread on the all earth - from Chinese to the Egyptians, form Aztecs to Greeks - in order to produce operative tools and artistic sculptures. The territory in the area of Brescia shows as well an important tradition of foundries, as the numerous and valuable roman bronzes of the Capitolium significantly attest, that shows generations of capable founders and realizes absolutely remarkable works. On the pictures are reproduced superb sculptures belonging to the artistic heritage of the Roman Museum of Brescia and kept in the rooms of the Capitolium of Vespasiano. These are artistic bronze works realized in amarvellous way trough the technique of the lost wax process, probably originally located inside the Temple as ornamentation. Extremely famous and admired is the important Vittoria Alata statue, two meters high and referable to the first century after Christ; of the same period is the Matrona Flavia Portrait, a honorary sculpture of remarkable technique level and detail accuracy. This ancient vocation it's today confirmed and renewed by MICROFOND, a highly qualified structure active in the sector of investment casting based on the lost wax technology. The industrialisation of the technology and the continuous up date process make of investment casting and M.I.M. the best solution to produce shapes of remarkable complexity , further more there is a great flexibility in the choice of all special materials, able to improve the quality of the products, and which are hardly when not impossible to be machined: especially Investment Casting deals with several metal alloys as stainless steel and ally steel, nickel and more. Metal Injection Moulding process (M.I.M.) has been developed in the USA on the early nineties, mostly for applications on military sector. In the following years, after overcoming initial difficulties, the method was used more and more, on one hand because of the interest of a growing number of Companies that have developed the process, but also thanks to the growth of markets where M.I.M. could be implicated. At present sectors as Aerospace, Military, Precision Mechanics, Medical, Watchmaking, Automotive are interested or already using M.I.M. technology. MICROFOND BRESCIANA Viale Europa, 8 25040 MONTICELLI BRUSATI (BS) Italia P.IVA 03268220179