Volume 100, No. 2 • February 2010 Cover: Design by Michael Berrafato, art director.


Features COVER STORY 24 RIA Undergoes Military-Style Makeover


Rock Island Arsenal’s metalcasting facility helps it fulfi ll its role as a jack of all trades for the U.S. Military. S. Gibbs


28 Cutting Binder Emissions Is BMW’s new 100% inorganic metalcasting facility a sign of the times, an anomoly, or a well-publicized example of where the industry has been going for a while?


S. Wetzel 32 SDI Holds Concrete With Castings


Casting end-user Schwager Davis has learned a thing or two about casting from its suppliers over the years. S. Gibbs


36 Decatur Integrates Its Quality Standards


Decatur Foundry has developed a new quality system intended to make its casting processes more transparent. S. Wetzel


40 3 Binders Evaluated


Recent tests on three commercially available binders has taken some of the guesswork out of matching a metalcasting facility with a sand system. J. Thiel, L. Stahl and S. Dutler


Web Site-Only Article— Confl uence Welds in Aluminum Castings


The effects of gating design on the strength of confl uence welds is explored. R. Lett, S. Felicelli, J. Berry, R. Cuesta and D. Losua


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Columns


9 Editorial Pick a Caster, Any Caster—A.T. Spada 22 Washington Alert Waterman & Associates 44 Marketing Matters Make Marketing an Investment, Not an Afterthought—N. Merens


Departments


3 Hotline 10 Industry News 19 Personals 19 Industry Faces


20 Calendar 47 AFS/CMI News 50 Product Innovations


56 Metal Supplies 57 Classifi eds 63 Advertisers’ Index 64 Shakeout


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