Our resin coated shell sands are specially formulated to reduce emissions, smoke and odor, while delivering the same high casting quality and productivity as conventional sands. They also significantly lower hazardous air pollutants (HAPs), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and free phenol. With our resin coated shell sands, you don’t have to sacrifice performance to create a better environment in your plant or in your community.

Custom Resin Coated Sand

HA-International customizes each and every resin coated sand formulation so you can optimize your operation's unique capabilities. No matter which path you take – conventional high quality products or a greener direction with our EcoMission products, HA-International has the solution you need for your foundry's application. Our Custom Coat product line features:

• Faster build-up of sand helping reduce invest times.
• Good cure through and uniformity of cure.
• Excellent sand flowability with high resistance to peel back.

Custom Coat

Our Custom Coat product line is designed for today's demanding foundry applications. This sand has been designed to provide high levels of productivity by using the latest technology available to the foundry industry.

Our Custom Coat products are produced and manufactured to your products exact specifications:

• Resin content: 1-5%
• Hexa content: 10%+ (BOR)

Custom Coat E-Series

Our resin coated sand product line includes Custom Coat E-Series, an environmentally compliant line of formulas that reduces ammonia and formaldehyde emissions by 30% and 60% from conventional formulas. Our Custom Coat E-Series formula incorporates all odor reducing methods:

• Resin content: 1-5%
• Hexa content: 5% maximum (BOR)
• Liquid resin curing agent included
• Low Odor

Features & Benefits

Increased Productivity
Signature Series products provide higher tensile strengths and greater uniformity than other shell sands, which leads to a long list of benefits:
• Reduced wall thickness
• Better heat transfer capabilities
• Reduced sand usage
• Shorter invest cycle times and cure times
• Higher melt points improve flowability and finish
• More uniform curing
• Better shakeout properties

Reduced Scrap
• Reduced lamination and peelback defects
• Greater core strength for reduced breakage
• Lower Loss On Ignition for fewer gas defects

Reduced Hazardous Air Pollutants and Smoke
• The first resin-coated sand product specifically designed to reduce free phenol emissions
• Neozien Technology additive eliminates ammonia odor
• Signature Series Gold product reduces HAPs, free formaldehyde, and free phenols even more