CASTING MODERN A PUBLICATION OF THE AMERICAN FOUNDRY SOCIETY
MARCH 2011 VOLUME 101 | NUMBER 3
COLUMNS
8 Editor’s Letter What’s Up With the New Look? A.T. SPADA
22 Washington Alert S. SALMON, J. HANNAPEL AND C. RICHTER
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60 Novel Solutions Fun With Economics S. GIBBS
62 Cast TIP Eliminating Flux Attack in Aluminum Melting AFS TECHNICAL DEPT.
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24 Pier Foundry Markets Its Modernization By focusing on marketing and engineering, sand caster Pier Foundry & Pattern Shop has attempted to bring a large plant mentality to its small facility. S. WETZEL
29 Solidifying Under Pressure for Improved Properties Applying pressure to an aluminum casting during solidification can save costly post-processing steps. S. GHANTI, E. DRUSCHITZ, A. DRUSCHITZ AND J. GRIFFIN
34 What Is the True Cost of Gate Removal and Cleaning? Eagle Alloy was using several different methods to remove gates and clean the contact points, so the facility decided to find out what the processes cost once and for all. J. WORKMAN
39 115th
Metalcasting Congress Returns to the Midwest Award Winners (p. 40) • List of Exhibitors (p. 42) • Show Floor Map (p. 42) • Congress Schedule (p. 44) • Special Events (p. 44) • Management Day Schedule (p. 45) • Technical Program (p. 47) A MODERN CASTING STAFF REPORT
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Quality Management for Safety
While much work has been done to determine what it takes to be safe and what it takes to make quality parts, no one has asked where the two disciplines overlap. T. SCHORN
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DEPARTMENTS 3 Hotline
10 Industry News 19 Personals 19 Industry Faces 20 Calendar
65 AFS/CMI News
71 Classifieds
79 Advertisers’ Index
80 Shakeout
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