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    Ryzhov Sergey | Dreamstime
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    Bricking Solutions
    The bricking machine holds the refractory bricks firmly against the furnace shell and aligns the brickwork to avoid catastrophic failure. This also avoids falling debris and other dangers throughout the bricking process, which reduces the chance of injury.
    Fraunhofer IFAM
    The thin, structureless layers of UltraPlas allow both nanoscale surface structures, e.g., for the nanoimprint process, and mirror-gloss surfaces to be perfectly reproduced.
    IBC Advanced Alloys
    Beralcast beryllium-aluminum alloy bars.
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    Sun Metalon
    Sun Metalon’s recycling technology.
    Materials

    Transforming Waste Into Value

    Feb. 10, 2025
    Foundries need a cost-competitive, environmentally viable, and efficient way to reclaim the metal lost to slag, dust, chips, sludges, and swarf. On-site reprocessing converts ...
    Aleksandr Matveev | Dreamstime
    Melt/Pour

    Modeling Aluminum Oxidation

    Feb. 27, 2024
    A 12-month project aims to develop a mathematical model of the two-way coupling between liquid metal flow and the oxide layer above it, with the latter behaving as a non-Newtonian...
    Thiti Tangjitsangiem | Dreamstime
    'Availability of new foundry sand is already becoming a challenge, along with the need of providing new solutions to waste management,” according to the director of a metallurgical research center.
    Issues and Ideas

    New Directions in Recycling Foundry Sand

    Oct. 3, 2023
    Process and handling costs, plus metalcasters’ growing sense of environmental liability, are creating an opening for thermal and mechanical processes for recovering spent sand...
    Branimir Ritonja | Dreamstime
    Automotive cast parts.
    Materials

    Quiz: Know the Metals!

    Aug. 29, 2023
    It's time to define some of the terminology of metalcasting, starting with the metals that are cast. Or, more specifically, to establish a baseline understanding of the metals...
    Seesea | Dreamstime
    Fire photo
    Issues and Ideas

    OSHA Cites Schumann for Blast

    Aug. 22, 2023
    I. Schumann is charged with six LOTO violations following the federal agency’s investigation of the furnace explosion that killed one person and injured 15.

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    Ryzhov Sergey | Dreamstime
    Scanning electron microscope
    Quizzes

    Foundry Quiz: Metallurgy

    March 12, 2025
    In metallurgy, common terms may have nothing in common. They might be phases or microstructures, or something else. How well do you grasp the process?
    Simone Neuhold / RHI Magnesita
    Many refractory products are custom-developed and manufactured for particular applications, and also usually contaminated with material they have absorbed while lining furnaces or ladles, which makes the recycling process a challenge.
    Materials

    Cutting CO2 Emissions from Refractory Recycling

    May 1, 2023
    The goal is a sensor-based system for automated sorting of spent refractories, to increase recycling rates for refractory breakout material from as little as 7% to 80%.
    LIFT
    Michigan Tech undergraduates developed a powder metal atomization chamber, with LIFT support, toward production of new alloys for additive manufacturing.
    Materials

    New Technology for Custom 3DP Alloys

    April 18, 2023
    The LIFT research institute and undergraduate teams at Michigan Tech developed a new metal atomization chamber to support production of powdered metals, in support of hypersonics...
    Business Wire
    TriTech owner Robert Swenson, shown with the Production System P-1, is a titanium manufacturing expert.
    Materials

    Investment Caster Binder-Jetting Ti Parts

    March 21, 2023
    TriTech Titanium Parts LLC is making complex titanium components efficiently and cost-effectively after customer-qualifying its additive manufacturing operations for Ti64.
    Robbiverte | Dreamstime
    A pile of industrial sand.
    Molds/Cores

    New Option for Reclaiming Sand

    March 1, 2023
    A pilot-scale plant is demonstrating a patented process that recovers mold and core sand with 98% effectiveness, and offers energy efficiency too.