About us

EKK, Inc. is dedicated to the innovation, introduction, and advancement of products and services to improve the quality of castings for our customers

EKK Inc., a metal casting process simulation software and consulting services company, provides software that offers the most accurate solutions to a wide variety of metal casting concerns. EKK’s Finite Element Method (FEM) based Capcast software suite includes Solidification/Thermal, Fluid flow, Stress and Porosity analysis tools which can accurately identify your casting defects and help you to optimize your casting processes. Since 1991, EKK has established strong ties with the casting industry and continues to advance casting simulation technologies through partnership with our customers and collaboration with EKK Japan. We are known for our robust software and efficient technical support which meets the needs of our customers. Additionally, EKK provides design services such as high pressure die casting gating design and overflow design.

EKK’s accurate, efficient and user friendly tools, combined with over twenty years of engineering consulting experience, make EKK a leading solution source for your casting needs.

  1. 1991

    EKK, Inc. was established in 1991 with the release of EKKcapcast mesh generation tools and thermal/solidification analysis software.

  2. 1993

    Fluid flow analysis software was added to our suite of metal casting process simulation software.

  3. 1997

    Thermal stress/distortion software was added to our suite of metal casting process simulation software.

  4. 1998

    A busy year for EKK, as we released our automesh generator and established EKK Japan.

  5. 1999

    Aluminum casting microporosity simulation capabilities were added to the EKKcapcast software suite, and shortly thereafter the same capabilities were extended to nodular iron castings as well.

  6. 2005

    Shot sleeve, back pressure, and vacuum vent modeling capabilities were added to the flow module.

    HPDC Essentials was released for Microsoft Windows© .

  7. 2012

    HPDC gating design service is started.

  8. 2014

    EKK expands into the Chinese market with it's first customers there. EKK China is established soon after.

  9. 2016

    The EKKcapcast Integrated Environment is created combining all EKK casting applications into a single interface.