Fidax - Engineered Castings

Since its inception in 1947, FIDAX has grown from a small machine shop supplying valve guides to the automotive industry, to a business offering complete engineered casting solutions to a wide range of industries.

Fidax has a wealth of knowledge and experience in many different industries. These include the railway, automotive, mining, construction, utilities, and general engineering sectors.

BRAKE COMPONENTS, TRACK COMPONENTS AND RAIL ELECTRIFICATION CASTINGS

Fidax has been supplying components and electrification castings to the railway industry in Australia and internationally for over 20 years. Our product range includes:

• Brake components – air brake systems and brake blocks
• Track components – base plates, shoulders and turnouts
• Rail electrification castings

Fidax's specific railway experience helps to understand the industry's complex demands and expectations. We work with our customers to provide the most efficient casting solutions.

Our services have assisted our railway customers to achieve large contracts and break into new markets locally and internationally.

ENGINEERED CASTINGS SERVICES

Engineered castings services we can offer include:

• Casting design and simulations
• Ferrous foundry
• Iron and steel
• Non-ferrous castings
• Machining
• Pressing
• Assembly
• Painting / coating
• Testing
• Packaging
• Tool shop

CAST IRON AND DUCTILE IRON CASTING

Fidax's foundry is located in Silverwater, Sydney, Australia. We offer our partners the advantage of complete casting solutions and work with our customers to provide the most efficient and cost-effective method for every casting project. We cast all grades of cast iron and ductile iron (SG).

Our high-repetition casting foundry offers a range of services:

• Complete design capabilities including 3-D simulation
• DISA (vertical moulding)
• Inductotherm induction melters
• Complete core production
• Complete tool room / pattern making
  

CASTING DESIGN AND SIMULATION

Fidax uses the latest CAD/CAM technology to aid the design of our castings. This software aims to saves money and time, and optimise the yields and efficiencies at the casting design stage.

We encourage our customers to involve us at the early stage of production to gain the most beneficial results. Please consult us if you need us to work with your design team.

METAL MOULDING

Fidax offers its experience in quality and customer service to provide our customers with jobbing capabilities in all metal moulding methods.

ISO 9001:2000 CERTIFICATION

Our foundry is fully committed to quality and is accredited to the requirements of ISO 9001:2000. We are committed to excellence and customer satisfaction. We achieve our goal by exceeding our customers' expectations of quality in design, technical expertise, manufacture and supply.

Flexibility and commitment to meeting our supply parameters have been contributing factors in maintaining our many long-standing business relationships and have also helped to expand our supply arrangements overseas and domestically.

With an ever-increasing customer base, focusing on a variety of markets, Fidax's commitment to its customers is key in achieving the optimum casting solution. When working with Fidax you can be guaranteed competitive prices while maintaining service and production quality.

Our business practices of commitment to quality, continuous improvement and customer service ensures we can meet the deadlines and expectations of our customers, and be partners in their success. Commitment to customer service means that we will always do our best to meet our clients' changing demands.