The Foundry at ALSTOM Power Sp. z o.o (formerly known as ABB Zamech Ltd) specializes in developing turbine steel castings used for the power generation, shipbuilding, military, and marine industries.

Its product list includes:

• Turbine steel castings
• Marine and industrial steel castings

Fabricated constructions based on castings include:

• Joining of steel castings
• Steel castings
• Forgings
• Rolled and drawn semi products

Capability list of the company include: 

Welding:

• Cast carbon steel and cast alloy steel
• Nodular cast iron with coated electrodes

Non-destructive testing:

• Ultrasonic testing
• Magnetic particle testing
• Liquid penetrant testing
• Radiographic testing

Spectral analysis and creep tests:

• Spectral analysis of iron
• Analysis of carbon, sulfur, oxygen, nitrogen content in metal alloys
• Creep tests

Machining:

• Machining on vertical lathes with the possibility of profile copying
• Max. diameter of workpieces up to 8 000 mm
• Wide scope of machining on horizontal boring machines
• Max. dimensions of machined surface 5 000 mm X 4 000 mm
• Machining on CNC miller-planner with circumferential interpolation (Waldrich)
• Machining on CNC milling machine

Heat treatment:

• Full annealing
• Soft annealing
• Normalization with tempering
• Toughening
• Stress relief annealing
• Homogenizing
• Graphitizing

Inspections: The quality inspections may be carried out by Foundry quality inspectors, customer's representatives, as well as by representatives of Classification Societies and other authorities.

Engineering:

• Verification of complete casting methods engineering based on computer, simulation results in the MAGMAsoft system, of mould filling and solidification of cast steel, iron and non-ferrous metals, solid modeling, etc.
• Determination of inner structure and strength properties of nodular cast iron in MAGMAiron system
• Simulation of stresses and strains in castings
• Solid modelling in CATIAsolution system
• Reprography, scanning and printing /colour - A0 format
• Co-operation design engineering of castings for the improvement of their castability

Foundry possesses updated authorisation of following classification societies:

• Det Norske Veritas
• Germanischer Lloyd
• Lloyd's Register

Company has partnership with companies like Alstom, GE, Hitachi, Toshiba, Skoda, Siemens, Man, Stocznia Gdynia SA, Rolls-Royce, and Aker.

Foundry at ALSTOM Power Sp. z o.o has been certified to ISO 9001:2000 awarded by Lloyd Register Quality Assurance, ISO 14001:2004 awarded by Lloyd Register Quality Assurance, OHSAS 18001:1999 by Lloyd Register Quality Assurance.