General Kinematics (Booth No. 1915) will be highlighting its vast offerings for the foundry shakeout department. As the leading vibratory equipment supplier to the world's most successful corporations, their innovative equipment and systems design help our customers reduce downtime, increase throughput and increase profitability. GK specializes in vibrating and rotary equipment and solutions for bulk processing of material in the foundry, recycling, scrap, and mining industries. Each piece of GK equipment is custom engineered to your specifications to meet your process objectives. Trust GK vibratory, and rotary equipment to optimize your systems process.
> Foundry Solutions & Design
Foundry Solutions&Design (FS&D), headquartered in Atlanta, provides complete engineering and consulting services to the foundry industry. FS&D (Booth No. 1951) develops recommendations for customized, high performance manufacturing systems, for all foundry applications including melting, core making, molding, material handling, and finishing. With a wealth of casting processing and facility knowledge, both in-house and through our international partners, Blastman and Inspectomation, FS&D's customers are well served with the experience gained from many years in the foundry industry. As low cost global competitors emerge, it becomes necessary to reduce cost in order to survive. For this reason, FS&D has been particularly active in helping foundries reduce labor costs, by focusing on automation of core making/handling, casting finishing and inspection. Partnering with several excellent European suppliers of automated robotic core handling, casting cleaning, finishing, inspection, and material handling equipment has resulted in mechanized systems that are second to none. This allows foundries to fully realize their potential in cost reduction and improved quality.
> Air Products
Air Products is a worldwide leading industrial gas supplier. The company's comprehensive ranges of industrial gas and technology offers ferrous and non-ferrous foundry operations the opportunity to improve their production efficiencies, while reducing operating costs. To learn more about reducing fuel or coke costs, increasing yield and production, and reducing emissions, stop by booth no. 2062 at CastExpo.
> Ajax TOCCO Magnethermic
Ajax TOCCO Magnethermic (ATM) will portray a wide range of capability to provide induction melting/holding furnaces and power supplies, as well as aftermarket support products/services and used/refurbished induction equipment for the molten metal industry. Energy efficient ATM equipment includes solid state power units with both SCRand IGBT controls, "Jet Flow" channel inductors, and HPD coreless furnaces. The customer care/preventative maintenance programs are designed to increase the uptime of all induction equipment. Installation of new and used equipment is also available. ATM induction equipment is designed for use with aluminum, iron, steel, copper, brass, and zinc applications. Melting, holding, duplexing, continuous casting, and many other customized casting processes have taken advantage of the innovative ATM designs and high efficiency systems. Ajax TOCCO Magnethermic (Booth No. 1959) is the headquarters for all your molten metal applications.
> Ashland Casting Solutions
Ashland Casting Solutions will introduce three new products at CastExpo, Low Odor PEPSET binders, Speed ISOCURE binders, and ENVIROFLOW green sand additive. Ashland introduced these new products after consulting with customers who wanted to maintain productivity and quality while improving the environmental profile of their operations. Experts will be available to answer questions regarding the full line of Ashland Casting Solutions products and services that help foundries improve performance and deliver bottom-line results, including Arena-flow 7.0 software for fluid- and granular-flow behavior controlling sand core blowing, and Ashland's online training programs for casting professionals. Ashland will also feature its knowledge base in lost-foam technology.
