Robert Brooks

Revstone Industries LLC has until July 31 to file its Chapter 11 reorganization plan, a federal bankruptcy court ruled.

Process innovations in metalcasting are comparatively rare: techniques that work well have staying power. Once a technique is widely established the improvements come in terms of “productivity” and “flexibility”, which is the line Hunter Foundry Machinery Corp. is pursuing with three noteworthy developments it has introduced this year.

Bremen Castings Inc., an Indiana gray iron and ductile iron foundry, has established a new product line — BCI Defense.

The Manufacturing Engineering Technology program at Pittsburg State University in Kansas is due to receive a 25-ton wax injection machine, thanks to a donation by MPI Inc.

Schmolz + Bickenbach Guss Gruppe, a producer of specialty steel castings at three foundries in Germany, has acquired a large-format, 3D printer to produce sand molds for its products.

Customers rely on Spokane Industries for more than castings: they count on the company to address their design and production problems.

For manufacturers, the next assumption to be overturned will be the precedence of productivity as a strategy for success.