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St. Marys Foundry Inc., St. Marys,
Ohio, is in the process of installing in- house heat treat capacity that it hopes to have online by mid-December. Accord- ing to Vice President Operations Terry Lenhart, the ferrous metalcasting com- pany heat treats about 80% of its castings and began to consider performing some of the work in-house in February. Chicago Aluminum Castings Co.,
Chicago, has reopened under new ownership, less than one month after confirming its closing. Richard Wagner, owner of Wagner Foundry, Chicago, purchased the facility and its assets, including its equipment and customer list, in late July and is now operating the business as usual. Chicago Aluminum’s previous owner and president, Harold Horton, said in early July he was closing the business after 100 years of operation and that he would be seeking a buyer in the coming weeks. Laforo Iron Foundry, Sainte-Claire,
Québec, has placed an order with LaempeReich Corp., Trussville, Ala., for a new core machine. In a study of the effects of earth-
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In the article “Navistar Launches
First V8 CGI Block” (May/June 2010, p. 56), it was written that Navistar, Warrenville, Ill., was forecasting an order of 250,000 blocks annually, ac- cording to casting supplier Cifunsa, Coahuila, Mexico. However, according to a representative from Navistar, the order forecast should have been stated as 25,000 blocks annually. In the article “Sessions Extend to
Buyers, Designers” (May/June 2010), an incorrect table appears on page 47. The proper table is as follows:
Properties of Typical ADI Grades Grade TS
750 900
1050 1,050 750 1200 1,200 850 1400 1,400 1,100 1600 1,600 1,300
September/OctOber 2010
11 9 7 4 2 1
YS Elong.
(MPa) (MPa) (%) 750 500 900 550
quakes on water and sewer pipe, cast ductile iron pipe with restrained joints proved superior to compo- nents produced in other materials, according to a paper appearing in the May 2010 issue of the Journal of the American Water Works Associa- tion. The paper, by Michael Tucker, senior sales engineer with American Cast Iron Pipe, Birmingham, Ala. (a company that itself produces the
products in question), reviewed data about pipe failures during modern- day earthquakes, including Prince William Sound, Alaska, 1964; Loma Prieta, Calif., 1989; and Northridge, Calif., 1994. Aesir Metals LLC, Struthers, Ohio,
announced it has completed a job casting a submersible component for the chemical industry in 316 stainless steel via the lost foam process. METAL
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