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Wherever you find an “at” symbol in this issue, access additional content on the web at www.moderncasting.com:


• Table of Contents: Web- only article based on the 2011 Hoyt Memorial Lecture by Dennis Dotson.


• “2011 Casting Competition”: Audiocast with the Daimler Trucks casting designer credited with helping create one of this year’s award winning castings.


• “Asking the Big Questions”: Full papers on which the five top- rated presentations were based.


Navistar’s metalcasting facility in Waukesha, Wis., recently was transitioned to serve as a job shop after being designed to cast long runs of high-volume truck parts. The facility now is adding lost foam.


Navistar Adds Foam, Recalls Workers


Navistar International Corp., Warrenville, Ill., announced it will recall 150 work- ers to its Indianapolis metalcasting facility by June 2011 and hire 100 additional workers by 2014. Te company also plans to begin using the ductile iron lost foam casting process in its Waukesha, Wis., metalcasting facility this year. According to a company press release, the recall was planned in response to the growth of Pure Power Technologies LLC, Columbia, S.C., the truck maker’s newly created engine components business. Navistar expects the addition of lost foam capabilities at the Waukesha plant to give Pure Power the ability to produce near-net-shape castings without cores and save its customers machining costs, time and money.


ARI to Restart Ohio Castings Joint Venture


American Railcar Industries Inc. (ARI), St. Charles, Mo., announced the board of directors of its Ohio Castings joint venture has approved a plan to restart produc- tion at the Alliance, Ohio, metalcasting facility. Te facility was temporarily idled in June 2009 due to weak demand in the new railcar market. ARI said it has seen an increase in new railcar quotes, orders and backlog over the past several months. Ohio Castings is expected to begin shipping castings during the third quarter of 2011.


“ Worth Repeating Metalcasting Blog


MODERN CASTING staff report on an outsourcing failure for Boeing and why you should consider traveling to Germany for the 2011 GIFA trade show and technical congress.


Question of the Month


Te February web poll asked: Will your company make any capital expen- ditures this year to increase capacity?


No Yes


57.8% 42.2%


Tis month’s question is available at www.moderncasting.com.


With our lead times, we don’t have weeks or months, so if there


is a problem, I need to know now. With casting [operations] in the shop, I can keep my eyes on [them].”—Tony Cremers, Craft Pattern & Mold


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