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| Weekly Update – November 25, 2008 | |
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| Featured Advertiser |
GoIndustry DoveBid Online Auction Belcher-Robinson, LLC Foundry Equipment, Featuring: Automatic Molding Machine, Vertical Channel Holding Furnace, Sand Mixer, CMM, Compactability Tester, Blast Cleaning Machines, Media Drum, Dust Collectors Sale Opening: Monday, 1st December 2008 at 3:00 AM CST Sale Closing: Thursday, 4th December 2008 at 1:00 PM CST Location of Assets: Alexander City, AL USA Inspection by appointment only. For further information or inspection appointment, please contact: GoIndustry DoveBid Customer Service Americas Telephone:+1 800.665.1042 (PST - West Coast) or +1 800.722.3334 (EST - East Coast) E-mail: [email protected]
| This Week's Metalcasting News Review |
| Ashland Completes Hercules Takeover Ashland Inc. finalized its $3.3-billion acquisition of Hercules Inc., creating a wider global specialty chemicals group organized as five business units, focusing on three global market segments: paper and water technologies; specialty resins; and specialty additives and functional ingredients. Read more |
| Pyrotek, IGC to Market Powered Fluxes The strategic alliance was formed to market powdered fluxes to North American aluminum producers. Read more |
| Precision Castparts to Buy Forging Operation "The acquisition of Hackney Ladish significantly broadens our role as a supplier of critical components to energy markets worldwide," stated PCC chairman and CEO Mark Donegan. Read more |
| Featured This Week |
Automotive Foundry Uses RFID to Manage Plant Logistics “We had to introduce new technology to improve on our manual processes, and to keep up with the growth,” explains Bernd Williams-Boock, CEO. “I had to know how many finished parts of each type vermicular iron had, and where to find them, so we could meet the customer shipment deadlines.” Read more
| Forums And Blogs |
| REB Blog: Let's see the money The core of every global economic problem today is the absence of investment capital, and the scarcity of credit created by that absence. Unless the federal government is preparing to adopt a direct-ownership policy for the domestic automotive industry, sovereign wealth funds will be the only bailout available. Read more |
| Announcements |
Foundry Management & Technology announces launch of Foundry Theater. Watch videos about foundry and diecasting industries. You'll see technical developments; new equipment; finishing technologies; automation systems; quality instruments and new products. You'll see how to reduce cycle times and increase productivity Watch Videos Now
| Upcoming Events |
| CMI Permanent Molding: Aluminum Tilt-Pour Muskegon Heights, MI — Dec. 2-4, 2008 Read more |
| CMI Induction Melted Cast Iron Processing Pittsburg, KS — Dec. 9-11, 2008 Read more |
| SFSA National T&O Conference Chicago — Dec. 10-13, 2008 Read more |
| OCMA Winter 2009 Meeting Columbus — Jan. 21, 2009 Read more |
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