This Week's Metalcasting News Review
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GM Gets 19,000 Workers to Accept
Buyouts
In the four-year labor agreement reached last year with the United
Autoworkers union, GM offered buyout packages to all 74,000 U.S.
workers, in an effort to reduce overall employment numbers and financial
obligations.
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NFFS Launching Two-Day Training
Series
The Non-Ferrous Founders’ Society is offering a series of two
seminars to train employers and workers in workplace safety principles
and procedures relating to hazardous energy, in order to prevent
work-related accidents.
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Precision Castparts Selects New CFO
William D. Larsson is retiring from Precision Castparts Corp, where
he has been senior vice president and chief financial officer. He will
be replaced by the company’s current v.p.-finance, Shawn Hagel.
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Cleaning Molds and Coreboxes with “Micro
Explosions”
Dry-ice blasting is similar to sand blasting or grit blasting, but
instead of using hard abrasive media to grind on (and possibly damage) a
surface, dry-ice blasting uses soft dry-ice pellets, accelerated to
supersonic speeds, to create “microexplosions” on the surface being
cleaned.
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Inconvenient truths
It’s ludicrous to assume that a law imposing emission limits on
electric utility, transportation, and manufacturing industries, and
paying people with federal funds for the damage these limitations will
cause to individuals in terms of jobs, income, and opportunities, will
have any “benefits” to the nation, or the Earth.
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