INDUSTRY news
Honda Says 10 U.S. Plants Are Waste Free, Including Three Casters Carmaker Honda announced it is sending zero waste to
landfi lls from 10 of its 14 manufacturing facilities in North America, including three metalcasting plants. T e company said its engine component casting facilities
in Anna, Ohio, Lincoln, Ala., and Alliston, Ontario, Canada, are reusing virtually all leftover sand from aluminum and ferrous metalcasting operations. In FY2010, the three plants recycled a total of 9,400 tons of sand, which is used as mulch and landscaping material and in concrete products. According to the company, Honda Manufacturing of Alabama in Lincoln became the fi rst zero-waste-to-landfi ll auto plant in North America at the outset of production in 2001, setting off a trend within the company. Waste sent to landfi lls has been reduced at Honda plants
throughout North America from 62.8 pounds for every automobile produced in the fi scal year ended March 31, 2001, to an estimated 1.8 pounds per automobile in the current fi scal year. “T is is an important achievement and a refl ection on
the commitment and continuous eff ort of Honda associates throughout our company over the past 10 years to reduce waste,” said Karen Heyob, manager at Honda of America Manufacturing Inc., who is responsible for Honda’s green factory initiatives in North America. “T is is an even more signifi cant achievement when you consider that we also produce in North America the engines and transmissions that power our products.”
John Deere Foundry Contracts for New Dust Collection Systems
Deere & Co. has taken another step in the modernization
of its Waterloo, Iowa, metalcasting facility, contracting for the installation of three new dust collection systems. Included in the project is a 540,000-actual cu. ft. per
minute multi-module air pollution control system designed to control emissions from the metalcasting facility’s new high performance mold line, return sand and shakeout area. T e second system will control the emissions from the blast fi nishing area and will require a 150,000-actual cu. ft. per minute multi-module system. Both of the systems will be enclosed in pre-engineered buildings. T e third system consists of a 30,000-actual cu. ft. per minute pulse jet collector designed to control emissions from magnesium treatment. The improvement is part of a $100-million
modernization plan announced by Deere & Co. in June 2010. The company said the modernization would take place over the next four to five years and allow it to leverage more advanced casting designs and manufacturing technologies when completed. T e new dust collections systems will be designed,
fabricated and installed by ETA Fabrication Inc., Avilla, Ind. ETA Engineering has been supplying dust collection systems to John Deere facilities since 1995.
10 | METAL CASTING DESIGN & PURCHASING | Sept/Oct 2011
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