Weekly Update – November 29, 2011
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The redesigned Foundry M&T Online Buyers' Guide is intuitive, feature-rich and interactive.
This exceptional reference tool provides a vital link between foundries and vendor partners designed for the way your business leverages the Internet. With this fundamental directory you can easily search alloys & metals, safety equipment, refractories, shakeouts, heat treating, and so much more.
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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.
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This Week's Metalcasting News Review
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Milwaukee Foundry Expanding CGI Output
Mid-City Foundry Co. ordered a Mini-System 3000 process control system for compacted graphite iron production, to upgrade its use of the SinterCast process and begin independent series production of CGI parts. The foundry has been operating with on-site engineering support from SinterCast AB for three years as part of its niche production of cylinder heads, compressor housings, and other custom parts the industrial power market.
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Accuride Supplying Aluminum Wheels from Monterrey
Accuride Corp. is producing aluminum wheels at its Monterrey, Mexico, plant, following a transfer of a machining line to that operation from its Erie, PA, plant, earlier this year. The $13-million project was announced last November, and according to the company it makes Accuride de Mexico the only single-source supplier of steel and aluminum wheels for medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles in that country.
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Respirator Use is Common… Maintenance Should Be So, Too
Pouring, drossing, moldmaking, abrasive blasting, chipping, grinding, and welding are all common processes in metalcasting operations that may result in exposure to airborne contaminants and agents, like metal fumes, silica dust, formaldehyde, and isocyanates. These basic operations account for the fact that metalcasting plants use respirators at a rate six times greater than other industries.
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REB Blog: Time warp
Rather than mediate management and labor's positions, the NLRB is trying to regulate employers into a new reality – one in which resources, information, finances, competition, and consumers, are not globally relevant.
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High-Capacity Batch Mixer
Blastcrete Equipment Co.’s 2,200-lb. capacity hydrostatic mixer is designed for refractory installations and precast refractory shapes manufacturing. Featuring the capability of 0.50-in. aggregate and mix time of 2 to 3 minutes, this pan mixer reportedly mixes up to 1-metric ton of castable refractory.
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