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Alfred Spada, of the Schaumburg, Ill.-based American Foundry Society Marketing Division, sees steady-to-strong growth throughout the different segments of the foundry business.
Seeing the light: after struggling along with other manufacturers during the first part of this decade, foundries are seeing an improved environment. However, challenges still loom
Royer Foundry Systems, PO Box 1859, Kingston, PA, 18704 tel: 570/331-3479 fax:
Mold, core & sand preparation
Tim Strelitz, with California Metal-X, a Los Angeles-based brass and copper foundry, is more succinct when he says that the biggest problems confronting the nonferrous foundry business are the "excessive costs [and] outrageous lawsuits that manufacturers have to deal with."
Hot topic: North American nonferrous foundries that will survive into the future will need efficiency and a little bit of luck
Huff, FACT, Three Rivers, Michigan John McCutcheon, Neenah Foundry Company, Neenah, Wisconsin Jeff Bianco, Grede Foundries Iron Mountain Foundry, Kingsford, Michigan Godfrey Sergeant, Grede Foundries New Castle Foundry, New Castle, Indiana Mary Wolfe, Deeter Foundry, Lincoln, Nebraska
Fighting defects with improved gating: four metalcasting firms overcame casting defects by augmenting the gating systems
Dependable Foundry Equip Co, 12505 S W Herman Rd, PO Box 3210, Tualatin, OR, 97082-3210 tel: 503/692-5552 fax: 503/692-4477
Mold, core & sand preparation
Christopher Misterek Foundry Metallurgical Engineer John Deere Foundry
Officers/directors
This in turn can send the foundry into the cash trap spiral where money goes into the business in the form of capital investment and cannot be recovered in the form of increased profits.
Manufacturing strategy
This reality suggests that a foundry sales effort focused on volume growth is wrongheaded.
Selling and industry maturity
While Benton Foundry didn't officially come into existence until 1958, a foundry has been on its property since the 19th century.
Building a better Benton Foundry: while many foundries today thrive on the "big deal," Benton Foundry prospers by offering complex castings with quick leadtimes for short and medium production runs
The company's in-house automation staff utilizes the latest engineering and software technology to lead you through a design, simulation and implementation process Of determining what level of core automation is right for your foundry. --Laempe + Reich Ph: 205/655-2121 * Fax: 205/655-2123 www.laempe.com
Product showcase
Gaylord Foundry Equipment Inc, PC Box 1863, Independence, MO, 64055-0863
Mold, core & sand preparation
As North American foundry officials who have attended the show can attest to, it is nearly impossible to encompass the entire seven-building GIFA event.
GIFA '03: unveiling new technology casting advancements: with more than 40,000 attendees searching for the latest and greatest technological advancements in metalcasting, this year's GIFA delivered the future of metalcasting for all to behold
* the Casting Emission Reduction Program (CERP) has been testing HAP emissions from foundry products and processes for the past five years (see sidebar above);
Grasping the impact of emission factors: this article provides a list of sources for foundry emission factors and shows if new factors could affect whether a foundry is considered a "major" source
Exhibit categories include foundry machinery and plant construction, casting machinery and equipment, melting processes, and molding and coremaking.
Guide to GIFA: GIFA 2003 showcases metalcasting June 16-21 in Dusseldorf, Germany
As the president of EBAA Iron Sales, Inc., an iron foundry based in Eastland, Texas, Jim Keffer is concerned about foreign competition and how his foundry will adapt to domestic quality standards such as the MACT standards regulating I-TAP emissions from iron and steel foundries.
Jim Keffer: metalcasting's Washington insider. (Industry Faces)