products & services we offer
Our range of waxes:
Casting waxes
With experience for more than 125 years, Paramelt has a long and proven history of blending specialty waxes for various industrial applications. Building on the pillars of reliability and consistency, we continue to work on the wax formulation technology, to develop the best possible casting waxes for each application area.Casting waxes are at the core of our business where we focus on key market applications like aerospace, industrial gas turbines, medical prosthetics and automotive. With a long history of partnership and a strong vision towards the future we have built a firm position as today’s largest and most diverse casting wax supplier.
Global market leader
Paramelt is the world’s largest manufacturer of investment casting waxes. We have a long-standing proven track record in the investment casting industry, further strengthened by the heritage of Argüeso and Kindt Collins acquisitions. But that is not all. With our acquisition of Valan Wax in the UK, we are able to supply recycling services not only in the US, but also the European casting market.
The investment casting industry is a core business for Paramelt. We continuously invest in capacity expansions, process controls to enhance batch-to-batch consistency, supply chain security and innovative new products.
We are truly global
Paramelt is the world’s largest manufacturer of investment casting waxes. The company has a long-standing proven track record in the investment casting industry further enhanced with the heritage of Argüeso and Kindt Collins acquisitions. The investment casting industry is a core business for Paramelt, and the company continues to invest in capacity expansions, process controls to enhance batch-to-batch consistency, supply chain security and innovative new products.
We offer a complete line of technologically advanced wax products for the industry, along with technical expertise to support the process needs of the entire foundry, not just the wax room. With experienced and knowledgeable people at all levels of our organization, our customers get the highest level of support in the industry with every interaction.
With a strong vision towards the future and a long history of partnership, Paramelt is positioned as the largest and most diverse wax supplier to address future growth in key market sectors like Aerospace, Industrial Gas Turbines, Automotive, Medical, and Commercial.
Supply security
With six casting wax manufacturing sites in the US, Europe and China, customers can expect to receive the same level of supply excellence and product consistency at all manufacturing sites. With these manufacturing sites, each with similar processing, control and quality capabilities, Paramelt is well positioned to provide for a real contingency in case of availability disruptions to secure supply of consistent high quality waxes.
With a commitment to constant improvement, evidenced by our continuous global investments, we are constantly seeking to address tomorrow’s concerns today and move the investment casting industry forward as a partner in our customer’s success. These global investments add new capacity, improved control systems, industry leading product consistency and technological enhancement of our products.
Customized processing equipment along with the industry’s highest process controls means the highest level of repeatability and quality of any casting wax manufacturer in the world. Our global sourcing teams work together and have close relationships with our suppliers to ensure the most secure supply chain in the industry. We seek partnerships with our suppliers to identify and address supply chain issues before they occur. Paramelt participates in many key industry trade groups throughout the world to promote best practices, technology advancement and environmental and regulatory understanding.
How we can assist you
See how our experienced technical staff can help your process with a detailed audit geared to help identify areas of opportunity for improvement throughout the foundry process, not just the wax room. Contact us today to see how we can improve your process yields, throughput and quality.
Global market leader
Paramelt is the world’s largest manufacturer of investment casting waxes. The company has a long-standing proven track record in the investment casting industry further enhanced with the heritage of Argüeso and Kindt Collins acquisitions.
The investment casting industry is a core business for Paramelt, and the company continues to invest in capacity expansions, process controls to enhance batch-to-batch consistency, supply chain security and innovative new products.
We are truly global
Paramelt is the world’s largest manufacturer of investment casting waxes. The company has a long-standing proven track record in the investment casting industry further enhanced with the heritage of Argüeso and Kindt Collins acquisitions. The investment casting industry is a core business for Paramelt, and the company continues to invest in capacity expansions, process controls to enhance batch-to-batch consistency, supply chain security and innovative new products.
We offer a complete line of technologically advanced wax products for the industry, along with technical expertise to support the process needs of the entire foundry, not just the wax room. With experienced and knowledgeable people at all levels of our organization, our customers get the highest level of support in the industry with every interaction.
With a strong vision towards the future and a long history of partnership, Paramelt is positioned as the largest and most diverse wax supplier to address future growth in key market sectors like Aerospace, Industrial Gas Turbines, Automotive, Medical, and Commercial.
Supply security
With six casting wax manufacturing sites in the US, Europe and China, customers can expect to receive the same level of supply excellence and product consistency at all manufacturing sites. With these manufacturing sites, each with similar processing, control and quality capabilities, Paramelt is well positioned to provide for a real contingency in case of availability disruptions to secure supply of consistent high quality waxes.
With a commitment to constant improvement, evidenced by our continuous global investments, we are constantly seeking to address tomorrow’s concerns today and move the investment casting industry forward as a partner in our customer’s success. These global investments add new capacity, improved control systems, industry leading product consistency and technological enhancement of our products.
Customized processing equipment along with the industry’s highest process controls means the highest level of repeatability and quality of any casting wax manufacturer in the world. Our global sourcing teams work together and have close relationships with our suppliers to ensure the most secure supply chain in the industry. We seek partnerships with our suppliers to identify and address supply chain issues before they occur. Paramelt participates in many key industry trade groups throughout the world to promote best practices, technology advancement and environmental and regulatory understanding.
How we can assist you
See how our experienced technical staff can help your process with a detailed audit geared to help identify areas of opportunity for improvement throughout the foundry process, not just the wax room. Contact us today to see how we can improve your process yields, throughput and quality.
Global market leader
Paramelt is the world’s largest manufacturer of investment casting waxes. The company has a long-standing proven track record in the investment casting industry further enhanced with the heritage of Argüeso and Kindt Collins acquisitions.
The investment casting industry is a core business for Paramelt, and the company continues to invest in capacity expansions, process controls to enhance batch-to-batch consistency, supply chain security and innovative new products.
We are truly global
Paramelt is the world’s largest manufacturer of investment casting waxes. The company has a long-standing proven track record in the investment casting industry further enhanced with the heritage of Argüeso and Kindt Collins acquisitions. The investment casting industry is a core business for Paramelt, and the company continues to invest in capacity expansions, process controls to enhance batch-to-batch consistency, supply chain security and innovative new products.
We offer a complete line of technologically advanced wax products for the industry, along with technical expertise to support the process needs of the entire foundry, not just the wax room. With experienced and knowledgeable people at all levels of our organization, our customers get the highest level of support in the industry with every interaction.
With a strong vision towards the future and a long history of partnership, Paramelt is positioned as the largest and most diverse wax supplier to address future growth in key market sectors like Aerospace, Industrial Gas Turbines, Automotive, Medical, and Commercial.
Supply security
With six casting wax manufacturing sites in the US, Europe and China, customers can expect to receive the same level of supply excellence and product consistency at all manufacturing sites. With these manufacturing sites, each with similar processing, control and quality capabilities, Paramelt is well positioned to provide for a real contingency in case of availability disruptions to secure supply of consistent high quality waxes.
With a commitment to constant improvement, evidenced by our continuous global investments, we are constantly seeking to address tomorrow’s concerns today and move the investment casting industry forward as a partner in our customer’s success. These global investments add new capacity, improved control systems, industry leading product consistency and technological enhancement of our products.
Customized processing equipment along with the industry’s highest process controls means the highest level of repeatability and quality of any casting wax manufacturer in the world. Our global sourcing teams work together and have close relationships with our suppliers to ensure the most secure supply chain in the industry. We seek partnerships with our suppliers to identify and address supply chain issues before they occur. Paramelt participates in many key industry trade groups throughout the world to promote best practices, technology advancement and environmental and regulatory understanding.
How we can assist you
See how our experienced technical staff can help your process with a detailed audit geared to help identify areas of opportunity for improvement throughout the foundry process, not just the wax room. Contact us today to see how we can improve your process yields, throughput and quality.
Contact us today to see how we can improve your process yields, throughput and quality.
See how our experienced technical staff can help your process with a detailed audit geared to help identify areas of opportunity for improvement throughout the foundry process, not just the wax room.
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John Machielse
Business Development Manager Casting EMEA
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William Fricker
Sales Director Americas
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Raúl Jaramillo
Technical Sales Mexico, Central & South America
markets we serve
A quick glance at the markets we excel in:
Aerospace
We have many products designed specifically for both cored and non-cored components while maintaining the utmost important factor of dimensional consistency. All of our Aerospace products are formulated with the most stable and long-term available ingredients to ensure that we can produce the same high-quality product for decades to come.
We offer a wide range of casting waxes that suit your individual foundry needs, from excellent surface finish to superior mechanical and flow properties and extremely low ash contents suitable for structural components, directionally solidified (DS) or single crystal (SC or SX) blades and vanes.
Industrial gas turbines
The IGT industry demands certain strength characteristics, minimal deflection and superior surface finish which you will find in each of our waxes that have been designed specifically for this industry.
As the demand for industrial gas turbines continually increases and the blades become larger and larger, you can count on us to continually develop the right waxes that maintain dimensional stability while improving the dewax and mechanical properties.
Medical prosthetics
We also have several products to choose from with extremely low ash contents, excellent surface finish and unprecedented dimensional consistency from batch-to-batch. The orthopedic and prosthetic casting markets demand a high level of quality assurance and fixed processing, which fits perfect within Paramelt.
As the world’s population ages rapidly, we have continually developed new and improved products suited precisely for the knee and hip replacement segment of the medical industry.
Automotive
We offer numerous different virgin and reclaim wax products designed specifically for the high volume demands of this market. We understand the technical and commercial requirements for the automotive investment casting segment and can recommend a product that works in your existing tooling, with high productivity and minimal batch-to-batch variance, while being cost-effective.
With the move to ever-increasing fuel standards, demands for turbo charger wheels continues to increase. Other automotive components continue to see high demand as well.
Commercial
These products are designed for the wide range of components, oil and gas drilling, pumps and valves, housings, marine components, etc. We understand the demands each foundry has of reducing the number of variables in their specific process, so we design our waxes to be the most consistent product that you work with over time.
We offer many different virgin and reclaim wax formulations designed specifically to have the versatility of working well with various sizes and shapes of castings.
investment casting is in our dna
Paramelt is the leading global supplier of waxes for investment casting. Together with our strategic acquisitions, we offer the broadest industry formulating and application knowledge and have more than 125 years of experience.
we are Paramelt
casting share
30% of our business
heritage
Argüeso, Kindt-Collins,
Koster, Taylor, Valan
As well as a complete range of standard products, at Paramelt we thrive on developing custom-made products to solve unique needs. Through our extensive casting knowledge, we can offer solutions and support both within and beyond the wax room.
wax specialists (niche player)
# casting waxes
1050 formulas
customized products
1 Ton – 1000 Tons
Paramelt has actively invested in the industry, combining the strength of some of the best casting wax producers and continues to seek opportunities to expand its role. Our independence allows us to be flexible in investment and respond quickly.
with an entrepreneurial attitude
# acquisitions
5 since 2009
capacity expansion
> 10000 Tons
In a constantly evolving industry, we invest strongly in new developments such as novel fillers, quick set wax, low temperature injection and enhanced strength runners and we seek to anticipate and drive change instead of simply reacting.
driven by technology & innovation
# laboratory projects
~300 last year
# new products
~25 last year
revenue growth casting
15% over last 5 years
Continuous investment in process technology & control brings the highest consistency of any wax producer. Global sourcing and close links to our suppliers ensures supply chain security and allows us to anticipate problems before they occur.
delivering security & consistency
on-time delivery
> 98%
top 3 recommendations
casting customers
Consistent quality
Reliable supplier
Value for money
ISO 9001:2015
USA, EU and CN
Our 6 casting wax production sites can provide equivalent products globally with local sourcing and application support to respond to specific market needs. Our knowledgeable technical teams and distributors ensure effective local service.
with a global reach & local service
# casting wax
manufacturing sites
NL (1), UK (1)
CN (1), USA (3)
customers in
> 35 countries
applicationg labs
USA, CN, NL
Our performance stems from a knowledgeable team with 200+ years of experience, we’ve seen the past, shape the present and anticipate tomorrow’s needs. We invest long-term, partnering with over 85% of our top 50 casting customers for >20 years.
building on people & partnership
Average employee retention
>12 years
Paramelt = ‘knowledge & experience’
recognized by > 85% customers
(customer survey Europe & USA)
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With 8 production facilities delivering in more than 80 countries, we have truly global perspective and local service.