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Staff from the American Foundry Society took Foundry in a Box on the road to James B. Conant High School, Schaumburg, Illinois, on Feb. 7 to share the metalcasting industry with fifth and sixth grade girls as part of the District 211 Girls in Engineering, Math and Science (GEMS) Conference.
This video highlights the technological aspects of the metalcasting industry.
Check out the cast gearbox inside Big Ass Fans' biggest commercial fan. Besides the sand cast gearbox, BAF utilizes many U.S.-sourced diecastings in its products.
This webinar covers the EPA risk assessment and advancing beneficial use of spent metalcasting sand in your state.
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Watch this webinar to see how using this medium can help communicate with potential customers.
Traditional cleaning methods can involve a lot of time-consuming disassembly, be ineffective, costly, involve environmentally harmful cleaning methods, and cause damage to expensive tooling and equipment. This presentation provides details for attacking and reducing the costs associated with cleaning applications in the foundry industry. More importantly, it will help participants position their companies for increased profitability.
In this recorded webinar, learn about in situ cleaning with environmentally friendly non-destructive dry ice. Cold Jet’s Environmental Cleaning and Surface Preparation Systems utilize high speed MicroParticles of dry ice to clean and prepare patterns, core boxes, shell molds, permanent molds, and other tooling resulting in less down-time, a better clean, higher quality parts, improved tool utilization, and longer asset life.
Considering the rigid materials used in metalcasting, one of the serious challenges many facilities face is the damaging effects of repetitive and extended use of pneumatic hand-held tools. Robotic machines serve as a means to a safer, more worker-friendly operation with far-reaching improvements in productivity.
This sponsored webinar, led by Peter Bigwood, vice president of sales, Brokk Inc., provides educational information and quantifiable results, explaining how remote-controlled equipment boosts productivity and increases safety for foundry personnel. The machines allow operators to stay out of harm's way while easily tackling challenging process applications - from the cleaning and de-bricking of furnaces, ladles and cupolas to removing baked-on sand from large castings.
With sales doubling in the last six years, Lodge Manufacturing Co. is rising to the challenge of fulfilling customer cravings for cast iron cookware. Read more in the December 2015 issue of MODERN CASTING.
AFS hosted more than 400 students, neighbors and local dignitaries in an open house Oct. 2 at its headquarters in Schaumburg, Ill. National Manufacturing Day is an annual event with the aim of encouraging students to pursue careers in metalcasting.
A small green sand nonferrous job shop answered the pull of customer demand with its first automatic molding line and sand system.