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Low Ash, High Performance

'Lustrol' is a range of tailor-made carbonaceous additive for use in green sand molding in ferrous foundries, for imparting better surface finish on castings.

'Lustrol' is a proprietary blend of carefully selected & evaluated coal dusts and other complementary ingredients, designed to improve sand properties for improving surface finish of castings.

Element Lustrol Standard Lustrol (HFC) Lustrol (LFC)
Volatile Matter 60% ± 5 30% ± 3.5% 37.5 ± 3.5%
Ash Content 5% max 10.0 max 8% max
Fixed Carbon By Difference By Difference By Difference
Advantages
  • Improved sand peel off from the casting
  • Improved surface finish
  • Reduced consumption of shots
  • Reduced fettling
  • Reduced sand related casting defects
  • Reduced man-hours on pre-dispatch casting preparation - faster turn-around
  • Reduced variables in sand control = standardization of the sand molding process = (consistent reproducible results)

Our specialization is to tailor-make the required Lustrol version to adapt to your individual foundry green sand system.