INDUSTRY NEWS North America
UAB Officially Launches Materials Development Lab (continued from page 8)
the UAB School of Engineering. “We will be able to develop new materials and new processing technologies and methods for various applications all in one location.” MPAD’s metals lab is still in its equip-
Newscast Lead products producer Vulcan
GMS Inc., Milwaukee, Wis., has cre- ated and launched a new website with double the number of pages and an FTP (file transfer protocol) page to facilitate sending files to the sales and engineering departments.
ment installation phase but by late fall will begin to test new metals. The lab will be capable of pouring 500-lb. test castings, significantly larger than tradi- tional test samples fashioned at most U.S. universities. The MPAD composites lab was established in 2004.
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Visit MODERN CASTING’s Late-Breaking Metalcasting News at
www.moderncasting.com
Quality Certifications The following metalcasting or-
ganizations have passed a recent certification audit:
Balisco Blades and Castings Inc., Shreve- port, La. (ISO 9001:2008);
Avalon Precision Casting Co., Brook Park, Ohio (ISO 9001:2008).
MC Correction Grede Foundry’s New Castle, Ind.,
plant; Prospect Foundry, Minneapolis; Griffin Wheel, Kansas City, Kan.; and Atlas Foundry, Marion, Ind., have added power management soft- ware by Powerit Solutions, Seattle, to their facilities.
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An incomplete version of “Reviewing Aluminum Gating Systems” was printed in September. View the full article in the digital issue at
moderncasting.com. The byline on the article and table of contents should have read: S. Nafisi, B. Mosleh, G.R. Kazazie and M.A. Boutorabi. MC
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