查看更多>>摘要：We have arrived at midyear and in certain sense that means 2022 is over. As I write, in my inbox are two separate 'invitations' to submit strategic plans for 2023 - as if to suggest that the issues swirling around us right now are of a lesser priority than committing something, anything to the schedule to be picked up six months later. Of course, 2022 is still with us and it would seem more logical to give priority to evaluating current circumstances. That evaluation might allow us to make adjustments that will improve 2022's results, and obviously could be instructive to whatever plans we make for 2023. How did planning for the future overtake managing the present, or at least assessing the current conditions?
查看更多>>摘要：Ultraseal International acquired Baron Industries, an impregnation service business, as part of a strategic plan to expand its North American presence. Baron Industries provides vacuum impregnation service for castings, powder metal parts, and electrical components to OEM customers from locations in Madison Heights, MI, and Lewisburg, TN. The value of the purchase was not announced. In its announcement, Ultraseal said the purchase would allow it to build its brand awareness in the region and would help Baron Industries enhance its market share through its affiliation with "the global market leader in porosity sealing."
查看更多>>摘要：Swiss machine builder Buhler AG is under contract to supply two large-scale high-pressure diecasting machine cells to Swedish automaker Volvo Cars for its assembly plant in Torslanda, Sweden. Last year Buhler introduced two new high-pressure diecasting machines to address automotive demand for larger and more complex parts. The Carat 840 and the Carat 920 machines achieve locking forces of up to 92,000 kilonewtons (kN), allowing automakers to manufacture structural castings for body-in-white assemblies with complex forms and thin walls, called "megacastings."
查看更多>>摘要：MAT Foundry Group is adopting DISA's Artificial-Intelligence-powered Monitizer | Prescribe Artificial Intelligence platform to reduce casting scrap at its seven foundries. The iron foundry at MAT Eurac, in Poole, England, will be the test site for the wider deployment across the organization. MAT has seven foundries pouring more than 500,000 metric tons/year of iron for automotive parts. The Poole foundry casts more than 40,000 metric tons/year, and adopted the Monitizer | Discover program for data collection, data visualization, and real-time monitoring/alerting in 2016.
查看更多>>摘要：GF Casting Solutions agreed to cooperate with Mexico-based Bocar Group to combine their capabilities in the global high-pressure diecastings market. Specific actions were not detailed, but in an announcement, GF stated the new partnership "reflects the commitment ... to develop and invest in new technologies and services to support customers in North America, Europe, and Asia on their way to sustainable mobility.
查看更多>>摘要：Cadillac Casting Inc., Cadillac, MI, is celebrating its centennial year. The company founded as Cadillac Malleable Iron made its first pour on November 4, 1922. L&L Special Furnace Co. has an order from an unnamed customer for a large floor-standing, fiber-lined furnace that will be used to stress-relieve and temper large steel castings. The L&L FB336 has an effective work zone of 36×36×72 in., and will include a pneumatic vertical door, 24-in.-high convection alloy fan, a complete control system, castable piers, and a cast-alloy load platform for forklift loading.
查看更多>>摘要：The National Science Foundation is providing its third round of funding to Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Center for Resource, Recovery and Recycling (CR3) - which develops and tests technologies for material recovery, recycling, and reuse in manufacturing processes. While NSF has supported CR3 for more than a decade, the new funding is in support of the new U.S. EPA "national recycling strategy," which has material recycling, increase in product sustainability, and supply-chain optimization among its objectives.
查看更多>>摘要：Shinhwa Auto USA Corp. has confirmed the plan to expand its automotive high-pressure aluminum diecasting and post-processing operation in Auburn, AL. The $78-million project involves a second plant adjacent to the one installed an operating there since 2020, covering 400,000 sq.ft. and projected to employ 42 workers by 2025. The South Korean transplant business supplies driveshafts to Hyundai vehicles assembled in Montgomery, AL, and Kia vehicles assembled in West Point, GA. Shinhwa Auto USA was a $42-million investment by South Korea's Shinhwa Co. Ltd., which uses high-pressure and low-pressure diecasting, as well as squeeze casting, to produce brake components, drivetrain and steering system parts, and gear-shift parts for automotive manufacturers.
查看更多>>摘要：Flow Science Inc. founder Dr. C.W. "Tony" Hirt was awarded the John Campbell Medal at the Institute of Cast Metals Engineers award ceremony, March 25, in London, in recognition of long-lasting contributions to the science and practice of metal-casting through his development of the FLOW-3D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software and its casting-specific version, FLOW-3D CAST.
查看更多>>摘要：Indianapolis-based Keramida Inc. - a sustainability, environmental, health and safety, and remediation consulting firm - announced the hiring of Deanna Kreutz as People Operations Manager. Ms. Kreutz will manage all of Keramida's Human Resources operations, focusing on of hiring and retaining the best people, fostering continuous professional and personal growth, and enriching the overall Keramida experience. She also will oversee the training and certification requirements of all employees.
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