Adolf's Pattern Shop, Inc.

et it is essential to have effective strategies to produce high quality casting, reduce cost in production, and stay within your budget. We at Adolf’s Pattern Shop are here to provide solutions that will serve your foundry’s needs. Adolf’s Pattern Shop provides German engineering, design, and craftsmanship with over 66 years experience in problem solving within the foundry industry. As a Pattern Maker, Adolf has perfected three solutions to eliminate alignment shifting problems; pouring/filtering/riser basin to provide your customers with the highest quality castings at an affordable price; and metallurgy testing systems to support ASTM metallurgy guidelines, we also provide foundries and manufactures with an optimal tooling material, DuraTech, for high production run offs. In search for an optimal wear resistant plastic to enhance his tooling, Adolf discovered a poly-urethane plastic designed for the defense and space industry "DuraTech.”

DuraTech's characteristics are light weight and extremely more wear resistant than steel, and can be machined, molded, or glued to any clean surface. DuraTech is a tooling material designed for high production runs. Where it all began:

In 1982, Adolf developed his first Cope & Drag alignment insert. He recalls, the simplistic idea of having two inter-connecting conical diameters creating impressions within the Cope & Drag halves. Utilizing this innovated idea he manufactured his own tooling to create Adolf’s Cope & Drag Alignment Inserts. These time efficient cope & drag inserts create a perfect match for multiple tooling processes. Such as, cope and drag match plate, match boards and molding boxes for no bake, green-sand and automated molding processes. Today, Adolf’s Pattern Shop, Inc. is still a family owned and operated small business, with 123 products to support pattern makers and foundries in national and international markets. Our products are built with the highest integrity and designed for “Doing it right the first time.”

Ricardo Volkmann, will be maintaining the family business for the years to come with solutions for all your alignment, pouring/filtering/riser basins, metallurgy testing, and DuraTech tooling material needs. Adolf's products are proudly "Made in the U.S.A" and manufactured locally to support small family owned and operated businesses. Contact:

Ricardo Volkmann
Operations/Sales

ph. 503.253.0602
fx. 503.253.5952