| | | | | | Waupaca Foundry leverages the advantages of heat-exchange technology to reduce scrap/salvage rates and offset sand-additive costs. |
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| | Earlier this year Bradken’s ferrous foundry in Mont-Joli, Quebec, started operating a new, custom-designed electric heat-treating oven, a project that resulted from more than two years of testing and research. The foundry specializes in casting wear parts for mining equipment, one of the core markets for the Bradken organization. Heat treating... |
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| | The investment casting group is installing a Seco/Warwick annealing furnace to relieve the residual stresses and prevent recrystallization in single-crystal turbine blades. |
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| | Mistakes are expensive, but metallurgists and QC technicians aim to profit from them by investigating how casting defects develop. That has resulted in a terminology for classifying casting defects. How many defects can you identify? |
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| | The Model BBF loader features an inflatable fill head that offers a dust-free seal when loading, dust port with dust cartridge, and manually adjustable bag supports. |
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