Weekly Update — June 29, 2010

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Weekly Update – June 29, 2010

Just Announced!!

Foundry M&T Launches its New & Improved Redesigned Buyers' Guide Website
This comprehensive directory contains information from companies/organizations that you can search by keyword to locate companies by the type of product (category search) or by the company name. Find everything from alloys to plant engineering, from heat treating to safety, from pouring to prototyping and so much more.
Click to start searching the directory.

Click Here to Download the Directory Entry Form (pdf).

If your company is not listed in the Foundry M&T Buyers Guide or you need to make a change, please contact Kathy Savage at kathy.savage@penton.com or (205) 669-7161.

This Week's Metalcasting News Review

Caterpillar Outlines Four-Year, $700-Million Investment Program
CEO-elect Doug Oberhelman called the investment “a great example of the job-creation benefits of global trade, as well over 60 percent of the large mining products made at our Illinois facilities are exported outside of the United States." Read more

U.S. Foundry Buys Georgia Gray Iron Plant
U.S. Foundry & Manufacturing Corp. has acquired the former TRW Warrenton Casting Center in Warrenton, GA. Read more

New Foundry Proposed Near Wind-Turbine Project
URV USA LLC, Rochester, MI, would produce parts for turbines at a foundry to be built near Astraeus Wind Energy Inc., a joint venture that will produce carbon-fiber composite windmill blades in Eaton Rapids, MI. Read more

Featured This Week

More GPU Routines for Metallurgy Research Available
Metallurgists who work with applied thermodynamics and other data-intensive metallurgical studies now have access to updated numeric routines for graphical processing units (GPUs), thanks to the Numerical Algorithms Group. Read more

Forums And Blogs

REB Blog: Microeconomics at work
I think it’s time for someone to argue that macroeconomics has failed: there is too much information spreading too quickly for individuals to be able to make rational, informed decisions. Read more

Announcements

FM&T Hall of Honor
The FOUNDRY Management & Technology Hall of Honor recognizes men and women whose technical and process innovations; organizational leadership; professional and industrial standards; and personal contributions and achievements have improved and enhanced metalcasting as a science, as an industry, and as a community. Read more

Upcoming Events

CISA Summer Meeting
Lake Geneva, WI — July 18, 2010 Read more

CMI's Lean Manufacturing for Metalcasters Course
Williamsport, PA — July 28-29, 2010 Read more

CMI's Chemically Bonded Molding & Coremaking Course
Schaumburg, IL — August 3-5, 2010 Read more

ASME International Heat Transfer Conference
Washington DC — August 8-13, 2010 Read more

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