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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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    Cast iron engine block.
    Materials

    SinterCast CGI Volume Drops

    Nov. 12, 2024
    Several circumstances combined for a -17% drop in series production of compacted graphite iron, after more than three years of expansion, but the process technology supplier pointed...
    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...
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    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.
    Jacek Sopotnicki | Dreamstime
    With deoxidized base iron, carbon levels can be increased to 3.30% C and alloying can be completely or nearly eliminated at the same time.
    Melt/Pour

    Reducing Alloying, Improving Castability

    July 17, 2023
    In both gray iron and ductile iron, a cleaner iron matrix substantially increases the material’s tensile strength – and improves foundries’ processes and casting quality.

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    Issues and Ideas

    Foundry Quiz: Are You Foundry-Literate?

    Dec. 3, 2024
    Metalcasting has its own lingo. Can you find the “foundry” meaning of these standard words?
    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.
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    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.
    SinterCast
    SinterCast licenses its CGI process control technology to 57 installation worldwide.
    Materials

    SinterCast CGI Output Setting Records

    Feb. 21, 2023
    The metallurgical process developer reported record totals for series production of compacted graphite iron during 2022.