About Us

About The Company

Your Partner in Investment Casting

Comprehensive Casting Solutions LLC was founded specifically to address the need of foundries that are losing technical talent due to retirement and the inability to replace them with trained and experienced personnel. We can step in with short or long-term help as a trusted partner. Our experts have decades of experience at your disposal.

When you hire our consulting services, you gain a partnership with premier industry experts who will help find solutions to your casting needs. We step in with innovation and a passion that won’t be found elsewhere.

Meet The Team

Our Technical Experts

Chris Whitehouse

Founder and President

Douglas A. Marion

Metallurgical & Casting Consultant

Ford Bishop

Casting Process Expert

Rod Haaland

Core & Ceramic Materials Expert

Patrick J. Morrison

Metallurgist/Foundry Person/Heat Treater

SERVICES

What We Offer

We offer a wide range of services to solve your casting problems.

System Optimization & Education
System Improvements/Upgrades
System Conversions
Process Control Implementation
System Problem Solving
Wax/Ceramic/Metal System Problem Solving
Wax/Ceramic/Metal Scrap Reduction
Optimization of Robotic Dip Routines for Intelligent Shell Building
Optimization of Automatic Drying System Environment for Intelligent Shell
Maximizing Shell Properties through Intelligent Process Control & Understanding

Educating Operators & Supervisors for Best Slurry Parameters & Resulting Properties.
Mentoring to Improve Casting Knowledge & Help Retain Employees through Excitement & Appreciation of the Process
Complete Shell Room, Equipment, & Process Reviews
On-Hand Technical Assistance as a Trusted Advisor
Mold, tree, gating and runner design input
Metal alloy suggestions
Chemical and NDT analysis
Scrap reduction
Knockout issue resolution

How You Benefit

The dichotomy between high casting demand and a rapidly retiring talent pool has never been greater. CCS is here to address that discrepancy with two centuries of combined experience to address your challenges. It is our goal to provide an unparalleled combination of top-quality materials, products and services along with best in the world technical expertise.

Partnerships provide an unparalleled ability to address your intellectual and material needs while assuring your foundry’s success in making the best possible highest quality castings. Our partners support best-in-class products and services for the investment casting community.

Our partnership will enrich your foundry’s future.
You’ll see the following as a result of our efforts:

Higher Productivity

Improved Employee Performance

More Satified Customers

More Innovation

Long Term Problem Solving

Greater Market Share & Profits

"It was a true pleasure working with Chris. He commanded respect from the plant floor to the front office by the way he drove to solutions that improved both efficiencies and first pass yields. Chris proved himself to be a man of high integrity, and I would offer him my highest recommendation
If you’re looking to work with someone who can help you reach your company's full potential, Chris Whitehouse is that person. His positive influence and investment casting skillsets can take you to the next step in our challenging industry.”

- David G. Palivec
President / CEO of Bescast

Westech is a distributor of pattern waxes, pattern cleaners, and shell materials with warehouses strategically located across the country. Westech’s in house laboratory offers testing services for wax, slurry and shell. Supernate and slurry viscosities, pH, bacteria, colloidal and latex concentration testing. These can now be all be provided quickly from one lab. This capability can maximize the performance of your foundry’s raw material products successful use. CCS and Westech together provide unparalleled knowledge, experience and material support in a truly unique format for the investment caster.

SurfacePrep supports investment casting by supplying rare earth elements and precision powders such as mullite, yttria, erbia, and zirconia for the investment process. View our refractory materials for investment casting here. To divest, or remove the ceramic coating, we provide water-jet cutting, wheel blasting, and air blasting. The finishing process can then be accomplished via wheel or air blasting, coated or bonded abrasives, vibratory finishing or super polishing, or parts washing.

Testimonials

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“It’s without hesitation that I recommend Chris if you are looking for one of the most knowledgeable engineers in the investment casting industry." I had the pleasure of working with Chris for nearly 20 years. His involvement as an instructor for the investment casting certification helped to make it the success that it is. If you’re looking to work with someone who can help you reach your company's full potential, Chris Whitehouse is that person. His positive influence and investment casting skillsets can take you to the next step in our challenging industry.”

“I have worked with Chris for over 20 years as a co-author, supplier, and as a customer. Two attributes come to mind when I think of Chris: integrity and a true interest in shell building (which is becoming a lost art). In all my time in the industry, I can think of no one that has done more for his customers with is encyclopedic knowledge of shell building and his genuine desire to see his customers succeed. What more could you want? Knowledge and the comfort of knowing that you can trust the job will be done.” I had the pleasure of working with Chris for nearly 20 years. His involvement as an instructor for the investment casting certification helped to make it the success that it is. If you’re looking to work with someone who can help you reach your company's full potential, Chris Whitehouse is that person. His positive influence and investment casting skillsets can take you to the next step in our challenging industry.”

“I have known of Mr. Whitehouse’s expertise for years, so I was pleased when he agreed to give a guest lecture at one of my engineering lab classes. Mr. Whitehouse is a great communicator with an enthusiastic delivery, so the students had a good time and learned quite a lot. They asked many insightful questions, which to me is always a great sign that an Expert Lecture has been successful. If you are looking for depth of expertise and a solid professional, you would do well to reach out to Mr. Whitehouse.” I had the pleasure of working with Chris for nearly 20 years. His involvement as an instructor for the investment casting certification helped to make it the success that it is. If you’re looking to work with someone who can help you reach your company's full potential, Chris Whitehouse is that person. His positive influence and investment casting skillsets can take you to the next step in our challenging industry.”

“I have known and worked with Chris for the past 20+ years in the Investment Casting Industry. In the early days, it was difficult to find technology on shells and shell systems. We worked with Chris and his team specifically due to their technology and strong system support, the latter of which was unprecedented. Chris developed an investment casting system for us that optimized material application and shell strength with minimal coats. As I move toward the twilight of my career, I will never forget Chris and his team of support for all they did for me, our company and the industry. His knowledge and willingness to share with the industry is a tremendous asset. I will always be most grateful for the opportunity to know and work with Chris over my career.” I had the pleasure of working with Chris for nearly 20 years. His involvement as an instructor for the investment casting certification helped to make it the success that it is. If you’re looking to work with someone who can help you reach your company's full potential, Chris Whitehouse is that person. His positive influence and investment casting skillsets can take you to the next step in our challenging industry.”

It was a true pleasure working with Chris. He commanded respect from the plant floor to the front office by the way he drove to solutions that improved both efficiencies and first pass yields. Chris proved himself to be a man of high integrity, and I would offer him my highest recommendation If you’re looking to work with someone who can help you reach your company's full potential, Chris Whitehouse is that person. His positive influence and investment casting skillsets can take you to the next step in our challenging industry.”

“CCS’s assistance proved very valuable”