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    Automated mold pouring.
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    Efficient Automation for Data-Driven Foundries

    Nov. 1, 2024
    Digitalizing and automating a green sand line reduces scrap, increases output and uptime, and requires fewer experienced staff. Then, you can analyze the data it generates to ...
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    Sands through and hourglass.
    Issues and Ideas

    Jack Palmer, 1953-2024

    Sept. 17, 2024
    Jack Palmer brought new ideas and new approaches to foundries worldwide, and his legacy to the metalcasting industry is much more than a nameplate.
    Fraunhofer IFAM
    The thin, structureless layers of UltraPlas allow both nanoscale surface structures, e.g., for the nanoimprint process, and mirror-gloss surfaces to be perfectly reproduced.
    Molds/Cores

    Could Cold Plasma Change HPDC?

    Sept. 5, 2024
    An “ultrathin, hard, and sustainable non-stick coating” promises higher quality finished parts, with savings in production cost and time.
    3D Systems
    3D Systems’ QuickCast Air (at left) is an advanced tool for designing 3D-printed polymer patterns (right) for investment casting, to maximize material removal from the interior of casting patterns. This enables reduced material consumption, lower pattern costs, faster build times, cleaner burnout processes, and improved draining efficiency.
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    Design Software Optimizes Investment Casting Patterns

    Sept. 4, 2024
    The QuickCast Air function offers more geometric options for 3D-printed polymer patterns, lowers investment casting tooling costs, maximizes material removal, and contributes ...
    3D Systems
    Astech engineering manager Bob Helwer holds a pattern printed on the company’s EXT Titan Pellet 3D printer.
    Molds/Cores

    Additive is Transformative for Astech

    Sept. 3, 2024
    An iron and steel foundry adopted 3D printing to bring pattern production in-house, handing it a competitive advantage with tooling, accuracy, speed of production, and turnaround...

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    Foundry Quiz: Are You Foundry-Literate?

    Dec. 3, 2024
    Metalcasting has its own lingo. Can you find the “foundry” meaning of these standard words?
    3D Systems
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    Pellet-Extrusion Printer for Prototypes

    June 20, 2024
    High-speed pellet extrusion technology speedily and cost-effectively addresses manufacturers’ need for functional prototypes, tooling, fixtures, sand casting patterns, thermoforming...
    Franklin Precision Castings
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    Investment Caster Rebrands

    June 18, 2024
    Aiming to emphasize the wide range of its capabilities, Franklin Precision Castings is rebranding to highlight the wide range of its capabilities.
    Wisconsin Aluminum Foundry
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    Wisconsin Aluminum Foundry Buys ATEK

    May 14, 2024
    The Iowa operation is the fourth acquisition in three years for WAF, as it builds a regional network for “high-quality aluminum castings.”
    Ryobi Die Casting
    Molds/Cores

    Ryobi Starts HPDC Expansion

    May 9, 2024
    The group’s Mexican aluminum diecasting plant will add five new, large high-pressure diecasting machines in expectation of future demand from EV programs.