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Five Casting Companies Join Minnesota Environmental Effort The Dotson Co., Mankato, Minn.,
Le Sueur Inc., Le Sueur, Minn., Smith Foundry Co., Minneapolis, St. Paul Brass and Aluminum, St. Paul, Minn., and Pier Foundry, St. Paul, have signed onto a green manufacturing program through Enterprise Minnesota. The program, financed by a $230,000
grant from the Minnesota Job Skills Partnership, is designed to create and deploy manufacturing for sustainability. “The basis of manufacturing in Min-
nesota starts with metalcasting,” said Enterprise Minnesota President and Chief Executive Officer Bob Kill. “This grant is phenomenal because it brings
together a great group of companies that want to take green and sustain- ability into their industry.” In partnership with the Univ. of Min-
nesota’s Technical Assistance Program and Change Management Associates, Mt. Laurel, N.J., Enterprise Minnesota will combine lean process improve- ment and sustainability practices to develop a program that targets prac- tical energy conservation and waste reduction opportunities. The sustain- ability practices will be designed with metalcasters’ bottom lines in mind, allowing the manufacturers to save on production by reducing energy and material wastes. In addition to the collaborating com-
panies and partners, the Metalcasters of Minnesota, American Foundry Society Twin Cities Chapter, EPA/Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership- Green Supplier Network, and the Teamsters and Glass, Molders and Pottery International unions all have expressed support for the program. Chartered by the Minnesota State
Legislature in 1987, Enterprise Minne- sota is a non-profit and affiliate of the Department of Commerce, Manufactur- ing Extension Partnership, a program within the National Institute of Stan- dards and Technology.
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“Myth” Mincing It is not a “myth” that magnesium
is prone to igniting (“Magnesium Structural Part Parts With Myth,” July/ August, p. 29). Several reports have recently appeared on gas grills recalled due to magnesium fireboxes igniting. Tens of millions of gas grills were made in this country with aluminum diecast fireboxes, and they could melt but never caught fire. Not so with the magnesium. You can make your own judgment as to the decision making that led to the specification of magne- sium for that application.
ALEX GAFFORD
V.P., DIRECTOR OF R&D CHARBROIL, LLC COLUMBUS, GA.
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