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Quality Is About Going Beyond What the Customer Expects (continued from page 19)


blocks would not be capable of being welded onto the existing propeller.


The project office and welders


argued for almost 9 months. Nothing they did succeeded in welding these


blocks onto the existing propeller. At the time, we had made a prototype casting for a project that got canceled. This casting was large enough that a block for one propeller blade tip could be cut from it. In despera- tion, the welders tried the block cut from that casting. The weld was 100% perfect. People have to get beyond the think-


ing of good enough. In my opinion, good enough is not good enough. All of our products need to be the very best they can be. The customers might not even know how good a product needs to be.


BRUCE BUCARI PHILADELPHIA, PA.


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Newscast Rio Tinto Alcan, Montreal, Canada,


plans to invest $7.6 million in its Beau- harnois, Quebec, Canada, facility to maintain alloy production to serve its primary metalcasting market customers. Additional capacity could be online as early as this spring.


B&L Information Systems, Bridg-


man, Mich., was named a finalist for the Progress Corp. 2009 Software as a Service Excellence Award.


Flow Science Inc., Santa Fe, N.M., announced it has entered into a co- operative agreement with AlchemCast LLC, Pelham, Ala., to provide compu- tational fluid dynamics consultancy services to the iron and aluminum sand casting industry.


KB Alloys LLC, Reading, Pa., has


signed a joint venture with Nanjing Yunhai Special Metals Co. Ltd., Ji- angsu, China. The newly formed com- pany will be called Nanjing Yunhai KB Alloys Co. Ltd.


MC 20 MODERN CASTING / March 2010


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