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| Weekly Update – August 26, 2008 | |
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| This Week's Metalcasting News Review |
| United Foundries to be Bought by Whemco Whemco Inc. has agreed to acquire United Foundries Inc., a Canton, OH, producer of steel mill rolls. Whemco’s product lines includes commercial castings and various forged and cast items. Read more |
| Superior to Close Kansas Wheel Plant Superior Industries International Inc. plans to close its plant in Pittsburg, KS, in December. he company also is halting new hiring, meaning 90 open positions will not be filled, and will lay off another 65 employees. Read more |
| Wisconsin Centrifugal Orders Melting Optimization Progam Management Science Associates is supplying its Melt Shop Optimization System to the MetalTek Intl. division. The program includes heat-charge models for bronze and stainless steel melting, as well as an alloy addition model and material consumption recording, heat disposition, and reporting functions. Read more |
| General Manager Buys Omaha Steel Castings The Nebraska foundry supplies components for construction, mining, oil and gas, transportation businesses, and indicates it has been a supplier to Caterpillar Inc. for more than 50 years. Read more |
| Featured This Week |
| Best Practices Make Better Hearing Conservation Programs OSHA mandates a variety of suitable hearing protectors — which ought to include more than just one earplug offered in corded and uncorded styles. Read more |
| Forums And Blogs |
| REB blog: The job ahead Metalcasters need to have viable and actionable organizational strategies in order to attract the best candidates, and to keep the good people they recruit. Even more important, they need to have that plan so that they know what they want to do, and to judge who they want to help them to do that. Read more |
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| Upcoming Events |
| Steel Founders' Society of America Annual Meeting Charleston, SC; September 6-9, 2008 Read more |
| Furnaces & Atmospheres Meadville, PA; September 8-10, 2008 Read more |
| Workplace Emergency Planning / Electrical Safety-Arc Flash Rosemount, IL; September 9-10 Read more |
| IMA-NA Annual Meeting Montreal; September 9-12, 2008 Read more |
| Global Foundry Sourcing Conference Qingdao, China; September 16-17, 2008 Read more |
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