INDUSTRY NEWS
NEWSCAST A consortium of five European
metalcasting equipment manu- facturers has established a North American sales organization for their products and announced the consortium’s first U.S. order. Te new company, Finishing Technology International LLC, Atlanta, will specialize in supplies for casting cleaning, finishing and inspection. Founding members of the group include Blastman, a provider of robotic air blast casting cleaning equipment, Inspectoma- tion, which supplies automated vision systems for mold, core and casting inspection, L. Janke, a pro- vider of hydraulic press and robotic casting trimming and finishing products, Reichmann & Sohn, which sells mechanized casting grinding and cut-off machinery, and casting de-coring, de-gating and finishing technology company R. Scheuchl. At the time of the formation of the new location, the consortium announced it had won a contract to deliver an inspection system for an automatic vertical molding line. Te system, which will have the ability to check for mold defects and alert the operator for corrective action, is believed to be the first in North America.
Continuous cast metals manu-
facturer Concast Metal Products Co., Mars. Pa., announced that its products have been re-certified for recycled content. Thirty alloys are certified as recycled content, and using them in a product or project qualifies for Leadership in Energy and Environmental De- sign (LEED) credits though the U.S. Green Building Council.
Allied Mineral Products Inc., Columbus, Ohio, recently an- nounced it has started a new Chinese operation, Allied Mineral Products (Foshan) Co. Ltd., Foshan, Guangdong province, China.
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Godfrey & Wing Inc., Aurora,
Ohio, continued its expansion into Europe with the formation of God- frey & Wing GmbH, created to bring
Godfrey & Wing’s sealant and equipment technology to the European vacuum impregnation market.
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