As a valued customer of Rio Tinto Iron & Titanium, you have access to extensive technical literature and publications that provide answers to your questions and ways to optimize your operations for maximum performance and cost effectiveness.

Some of our publications are available on the Ductile Iron Marketing Group's web-site.

	A Design Engineer's Digest of Ductile Iron.   A summary of Ductile Iron properties, applications and design ideas.
	Why Convert to Ductile Iron ?   Information on the physical properties of Ductile Iron, alternate materials and Austempered Ductile Iron.
	Ductile Iron Data for Design Engineers.   A reference book on designing and manufacturing with Ductile Iron. Detailed property information and specifications included.
	Ductile Iron -The Essentials of gating and risering system design Complete document in PDF (7.1 Mb)        Section 1  (2.3 Mb)            Section 2  (4.8 Mb)
	D.I. Techniques - Suggestions for Ductile Iron Production List of all the latest broadsheets available

You can obtain these publications and others (available in many languages) by contacting our distributors or nearest Rio Tinto Iron & Titanium office. 
More publications will be available on-line soon.

Many documents are available to download in PDF format. To view and print these  documents, you will need the ADOBE Acrobat viewer. This is available free of charge, and can be installed directly from the Adobe website.