AFS Announces 2025 Government Affairs Fly-In Featuring Stephen Moore as Luncheon Speaker
SCHAUMBURG, IL, - On June 10–11, leaders from across the $50 billion metalcasting industry will gather in Washington, D.C., for the American Foundry Society’s annual Government Affairs Fly-In, where they will engage with lawmakers on Capitol Hill to advocate for the critical role metalcasters play in the U.S. economy.
Read moreTaurus 80 Opening Illinois Diecasting Operation
Taurus 80, Torino, Italy, is setting up its first U.S.-based facility, Taurus Die Casting LLC, in Rockford, Illinois.
The zinc die caster is hiring 37 full-time workers and will invest $6.4 million into a 44,000-sq.-ft. facility. Taurus 80 manufactures zinc diecast parts and employs 268…
Metal Technologies and Quimmco Agree to Form Joint Venture
Metal Technologies (MTI), an Auburn, Ind.-based metalcaster, and Quimmco, a Mexican industrial conglomerate, have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly own and operate Quimmco’s Blackhawk de México, S.A. de C.V. (Blackhawk), an iron foundry located in Santa Catarina, Nuevo Leon,…
OSHA Activates Injury Reporting Form on Website
On December 24, 2015, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced its long delayed online injury reporting form is now available to employers to satisfy the agency's recordkeeping rule (29 C.F.R. 1904.39) requiring employers to provide notification of fatalities…