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In line with its mandate to research into engineering materials processes and systems for the production of spares and components and transferring the same to various industries for mass production, the institute has over the years developed some products which are listed below.
The products developed by the Institute from inception are:

ROTARY FURNACE
The rotary furnace designed developed and manufactured at EMDI is capable of producing any grade of cast iron from gray cast iron to ductile iron.
Metallographic structure of casting from this furnace is comparable to that of castings from other furnaces and conforms to all international standards. The furnace capacities range from 10Kg to 1ton.

CRUCIBLE FURNACE

The crucible furnace (bale-out) is capable of producing varieties of non ferrous metals and alloys. Metals such as Aluminium and its alloys, brass and bronze that can be melted from the furnace to produce castings such as bushings, pump parts, gears, shafts and solid metal for making metallic patterns.

AUSTEMPERD DUCTILE IRON

Further to the development of Foundry Technology, EMDI has developed Autempered Ductile Iron (ADI) for various engineering applications that hitherto require the service of forged and high strength low alloy steel. From this development work, a good aggregate of modular graphite structure against flakes was observed.
This structure and subsequent heat treatment improve the strength of iron for use in application where steel had once dominated.

SALT BATH FURNACE

The development process for austempered ductile iron has led to the development of the salt bath furnace from the intensive research in EMDI.
The Furnace was designed, developed and manufactured in EMDI to carry out austempering and martempering of ductile iron specimens and parts. A salt bath is a heated container that holds a melt or fusion of one or more relatively stable salts as a fluid medium that serves as a protective medium as well as a very efficient heat transfer medium.