Pressure, chill, investment and shell mould castings are produced.

The shell mold casting process consists of the following steps:

Shell mold casting requires the use of a metal pattern, oven, sand-resin mixture, dump box, and molten metal.

However, in shell mold casting, the mold is a thin-walled shell created from applying a sand-resin mixture around a pattern.

Shell mold casting is a metal casting process similar to sand casting, in that molten metal is poured into an expendable mold.

Shell mold casting allows the use of both ferrous and non-ferrous metals, most commonly using cast iron, carbon steel, alloy steel, stainless steel, aluminum alloys, and copper alloys.