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CERP Agenda Suspended as Funding Ends
Technikon will maintain R&D records

Out of View
Atlantic States Cast Iron Pipe achieves emissions-control compliance three years ahead of schedule, and reduces mercury emissions to unprecedented levels with a novel capture technology.

Best Practices Make Better Hearing Conservation Programs
OSHA mandates a variety of suitable hearing protectors which ought to mean more than one earplug in corded and uncorded styles.

Cincinnati Foundry Faces $128K in OSHA Penalties
Cast-Fab charged with 44 safety, health violations

OSHA Unveils Flood and Tornado Cleanup/Recovery Web Page
For employers, employees

EPA, Leed Foundry Settle Hazardous Waste Charge
Baghouse dust ruled “hazardous”; $25,000 penalty for RCRA violations

Making Money While Cutting Emissions
Under pressure to clean up their operations, three foundries discovered sandbinder products and technologies that will make them better neighbors, and help them to achieve performance and production-cost benefits, too.

Mercury Marine in Settlement with EPA
$25,000 penalty resolves allegations of “non-clean” aluminum melting

NFFS Launching Two-Day Training Series
Emergency planning, electrical safety seminars scheduled through September

Addressing Your Lifting Problems … 1, 2, 3
Cranes and hoists solve various process and logistics problems, but they present “problems” of their own, too. From control to maintenance, to equipment design, here’s a checklist of ideas.

OSHA Proposes Fines at Ohio BeCu Foundry
Semco faces penalty for workplace safety and health violations

Atlas Will Appeal Citations Following Deadly Explosion
Tacoma foundry contends driver, delivery service, equipment manufacturer were responsible

3D Monitoring Assures Safe Operation for Automated Foundry Equipment
The SafetyEye package — a 3D camera/sensor and a PC-configurable controller — monitors operations in one or more three-dimensional zones around a manufacturing system.

Electricity Costs May Leave Foundries in the Dark
With electricity rates having increased 20-50% in many areas, and still rising, energy costs are an increasing problem for foundries across the U.S.

Lean Initiatives Reduce Time-To-Market, Cut Costs
Minneapolis-based Kurt Manufacturing Co.’s Die Cast plant reports that its Lean initiatives have resulted in significant operating...

OSHA Cites Citation for Safety/Health Violations
$60,000 in penalties proposed for Brewton, AL, foundry

Green Sand Cleaning Problem Solved
The VAC-U-MAX Model 1020 has a positive-displacement pump designed for high-volume recovery, up to 6 tons/hour.

Condition Monitoring Averts Shutdowns for Ductile Iron Operation
Timken technology detects and monitors excessive vibration and temperature — and in the process saves ACP Manufacturing more than $1 million in 10 months.

Pacific Steel Casting Submits Health Risk Assessment
Environmental regulators reviewing facts of foundry's operating dangers

EPA Proposes Ozone Air-Quality Redesignations
The U.S. EPA is proposing final actions on requests to redesignate 18 areas in Michigan, Ohio, and West Virginia as meeting the national outdoor...
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