One of the most important applications for Ductile Iron lies in the farming and agricultural sector. It should be noted that when farm equipment parts fail, production takes a dent. And consequently, the ever-volatile food supply chains suffer considerably, either locally, national or even sometimes globally. Traditional farmers must continuously innovate farming methods, and subsequently improve their own farming machinery stack with the use of the right materials in foundries.

Ductile Iron for today’s large-scale agricultural operations
Today’s large-scale agricultural operations are in need of a reliable partner who can multiply operational efficiency and production output. VR Foundries, based out of Coimbatore in South India, is capable of producing high-quality ductile iron farm equipment parts that can readily withstand the continuous wear-and-tear of modern-day agricultural operations, enhancing the useful lifespan of agricultural operations, increasing the useful lifespan of all farming equipment. This provides complete peace of mind to farmers as they continue to feed the world.

Characteristics of Ductile iron
Ductile iron bends before it could break, thereby withstanding the huge pressures exerted by heavy equipment in the areas of planting, ploughing, and harvesting. Ductile iron castings, particularly austempered ductile iron castings, provide equivalent or similar strength and hardness level of steel, thereby considerably bringing down the final machining costs. Foundries must make use of highly specialized casting processes to manufacture specific farm equipment parts—including, bearings, hubs parallel arms, housings and more, for highly specialized machines.

Ductile Iron castings for farm equipment are relatively less expensive to produce compared to equivalent part produced of steel. The reason is that ductile iron consumes less energy to heat to a molten, easily and readily pourable and fills complex and composite shapes with minimal shrinkage (thereby involving less material). Needless to say, the aforementioned cost savings can easily and quickly add up to in the case of wide-scale production.