METERCORFoundry · Sto. Tomas, Batangas · since 1948
The Metercor plant on Millennium Drive, Light Industry and Science Park III, Sto. Tomas, Batangas

Metals Engineering Resources Corporation · Sto. Tomas, Batangas · since 1948

Foundry is our passion. Reliability is our mission.

Castings for equipment that still has work to do. Gray and ductile iron, heat-resistant stainless steel and bronze, to 100 kg in sand, and small precision parts by investment casting. Pattern shop, melt shop, heat treatment, machining and inspection under one roof, 40 km from Batangas Port.

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1948founded in Manila, family-owned since
ISO 9001:2015certificate 09-4419-2-QMS, valid to 2029
Powered by ACENrenewable electricity, induction melting, no cupola
55 peopleone team, pattern to inspection, on one site
100 kgsand castings; small precision parts by lost wax
2 business daysto answer a complete inquiry

Four doors

What can we cast for you?

Pouring line of sand molds in the Metercor melt shop with the induction furnaces behind

Industry

Replacement and production castings. Your OEM stopped supplying the part, or the import takes six months. We cast it from your sample or drawing, to a published standard, with the mill certificate.

Replacement castings →Industries we serve →
Operator in an aluminized suit draws a glowing ceramic shell mold from the investment casting furnace

Artists and sculptors

You make the original. We make the casting. Stainless steel, bronze or iron, by lost wax for detail or in sand for size. Finishing stays with you.

For artists →
Rows of freshly machined ventilated brake discs on the finishing line in the Metercor machine shop

L300 brakes

We cast and machined the brake discs and drums for Mitsubishi Motors Philippines for 49 years. The same disc and drum, from the same tooling, are now made to order under our own name.

L300 disc and drum →

Our position

Old machines are not a problem here. They are the work.

A kiln, a glass plant, a mill stand, a geothermal pump or a heat-treatment furnace that still earns its keep deserves a supplier who can read a worn part, choose the alloy and prove the casting. That has been our trade for 48 years of foundry work: brakes for Mitsubishi Motors Philippines from 1974 to 2023, mold castings for San Miguel Yamamura since 1986, heat-treatment fixtures for the Toyota Aisin, Isuzu and Mitsubishi transmission plants, grate plates for CEMEX, machine-tool castings for Mazak and Citizen.

Our value to a plant is simple to state: more service and quality, less burden on you.

Service

  • Design and casting drawings from a sample
  • Defect and failure analysis
  • Repair-or-replace advice
  • Complete tooling, kept for your reorders

Quality

  • Chemistry of every heat by spectrometer
  • Hardness, microstructure, dimensions
  • Heat number on the casting
  • Mill certificate and annealing curve with the delivery

Less burden

  • One owner to talk to
  • Answer within two business days
  • Pesos or dollars, local delivery or export
  • Partners named for what we do not do
Tapping an induction furnace in the Metercor melt shop

Before you write

Ask for a quote with the facts in hand

We answer complete inquiries within two business days. The fastest quotes arrive with these six things, in any format you have:

  1. The part A drawing (PDF, DXF, STEP) or a sample. Photos with a ruler in frame will do to start.
  2. The service it sees Material spec if you have one; otherwise temperature, load, wear and atmosphere.
  3. Weight or size Even approximate.
  4. Quantity This order, and per year if it repeats.
  5. When and where Delivery date, delivery place, pickup or shipping.
  6. Paper Tests and documents your buyer or inspector requires.

Go to the quote page Ordering a plaque, sign or pan? Start here

Spectrometer in the Metercor metal laboratory with a sample clamped for analysis

Every heat is analyzed on our optical emission spectrometer before it is poured. The certificate that travels with your casting carries that heat number.

Partners

What we do not do in-house, we do with named partners

MIRDC-DOST

The Metals Industry Research and Development Center of the Department of Science and Technology: 3D scanning, 3D-printed patterns, coordinate measurement, mechanical testing, machining and a large CNC router. We bring the sample; they bring the instruments.

Accredited laboratories

Tensile tests and non-destructive testing by accredited third-party laboratories, reported with your mill certificate.

Heat treatment and finishing

Solution anneals above the 960 °C our own ovens reach, specialist coatings and large machining go to partners we have worked with before, under our quality plan.

Zane and Robert Fansler in hard hats beside an induction furnace holding molten metal in the Metercor melt shop
Zane and Robert Fansler at the induction furnaces

People

The people behind every casting

Most of our leaders started on the floor or in the machine shop. Val Araos, our General Manager, has been here 40 years and began while still in high school. Dennis Jaranilla runs quality assurance, Remar Gernale runs production planning, and Robert Fansler, our president, is the second generation of the family that has owned the foundry since the Wilson years. Our consultants John Dakan and Tom Cobett, American foundrymen both, keep us honest on metallurgy and sand.

John Dakan, metallurgist and foundry consultant, at a Metercor furnace
"Our goal is to make a sound casting every time."John Dakan, metallurgist and foundry consultant

Buying from the United States? Start here. Building a low-carbon supply chain? Read about our green iron.

Our foundry and people Work with us Sell to us

Contact

Castings and quotations

Robert Fansler, President
fansler@metercor.com.ph
WhatsApp +639175299795 (Viber too)

Val Araos, General Manager
araos@metercor.com.ph

Plaques, markers, signage

Send the text and your unveiling date. We answer with a layout and a quotation.

How to order a plaque

Visit

Block 2 Lot 5 Millennium Drive, Light Industry and Science Park III, San Rafael, Sto. Tomas, Batangas 4234. Off the STAR Tollway, Sto. Tomas exit. Visitors are welcome by appointment; the park gate needs your name a day ahead.

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