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    'Availability of new foundry sand is already becoming a challenge, along with the need of providing new solutions to waste management,” according to the director of a metallurgical research center.
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    Automotive cast parts.
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    Jacek Sopotnicki | Dreamstime
    With deoxidized base iron, carbon levels can be increased to 3.30% C and alloying can be completely or nearly eliminated at the same time.

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    SinterCast
    Materials

    SinterCast CGI Still Rising

    Jan. 30, 2024
    A +6% annual increase in compacted graphite iron production guided the technology developer to four quarters of record production levels in 2023, and 11 consecutive quarter of...
    SinterCast
    SinterCast licenses its CGI process control technology to 57 installations worldwide.
    Materials

    SinterCast CGI Volume Hits a New High

    July 11, 2023
    Compacted graphite iron production has grown now for nine consecutive quarters, hitting an annualized rate of 205,000 metric tons for the month of June.
    LIFT
    LIFT is developing industrial technologies in support of the U.S. Department of Defense hypersonic weapons programs.
    Issues and Ideas

    New Materials Research for Hypersonics

    July 2, 2023
    The DoD-backed manufacturing research center seeks to advance the development of ceramic-matrix composites and metallics produced via large deformation processing.
    LIFT
    LIFT’s Detroit research center opened in 2015, and includes an industrial workspace and “Learning Lab,” and a satellite location in Sterling Heights, Mich.
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    LIFT, DoD Renew Co-Op

    May 17, 2023
    The U.S.-backed public-private R&D partnership will continue its materials, process, and talent development efforts for five years under a $49-million agreement.
    Simone Neuhold / RHI Magnesita
    Many refractory products are custom-developed and manufactured for particular applications, and also usually contaminated with material they have absorbed while lining furnaces or ladles, which makes the recycling process a challenge.
    Materials

    Cutting CO2 Emissions from Refractory Recycling

    May 1, 2023
    The goal is a sensor-based system for automated sorting of spent refractories, to increase recycling rates for refractory breakout material from as little as 7% to 80%.

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    Sept. 4, 2023
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    ALD Vacuum Technologies
    EBuild® 850 system components include an electron beam gun, a retractable build chamber, a process chamber, an advanced powder application system, mobile withdrawal and extraction units.
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    A Layered Approach to Large, High-Value Parts

    Feb. 1, 2023
    The “world’s largest” electron-beam powder-bed fusion unit builds titanium and other critical parts under vacuum, for components weighing up to 15 mt, up to 1,000 mm high.
    Lawton Standard
    American Iron Versa‐Bar continuous cast-iron bar products.
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    Lawton Adding Bar Distribution Center

    Jan. 17, 2023
    Lawton Standard’s QESC foundry will stock stocking Versa‐Bar continuous cast iron and other alloy bars products for the group’s American Iron subsidiary.
    Winsert
    Pouring specialty-alloy castings at Winsert, Marinette, WI.
    Materials

    Winsert Acquires Alloy Cast Products

    Nov. 8, 2022
    Manufacturer of high-temp alloy castings is adding investment casting capabilities in a purchase it said will allow it to introduce more products and services for its buyers.
    GE Additive
    Metal 3D-printed cross shaft arms, parts originally designed more than 50 years ago, were printed in cobalt-chrome and nickel alloy 718 on a GE Additive M2 system, as part of the USAF/GE Pacer Edge program.
    Melt/Pour

    3DP Displacing Originals for Long-Lead Parts

    Sept. 6, 2022
    A USAF and GE Additive collaboration is continuing to make gains as a reliable source of in-demand but unavailable or obsolete components.