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EDITORIAL


It Takes a Community T


his month’s cover story on thermal sand reclamation is a direct result of the information you, our readers, have been


feeding our editorial staff the last six months. As we tour casting facilities and equipment and raw material suppliers throughout the industry, the conversations we have with you and your colleagues becomes the foundation of the editorial discussions we have to determine the content of future issues of MODERN CASTING. We first began hearing whispers of a reduced


metalcasting sand supply at the end of 2010 from several different suppliers. Te oil and gas industry was running full-out and eating up the material at a higher price than metalcasters were willing to pay. “As good as a relationship as you can have


with your sand suppliers, they still have to be responsible to their shareholders, who are ask- ing why they are selling to the foundry when so much can be sold to [the oil and gas indus- try] at a higher price,” said Gregory Miskinis, Thys- senKrupp Waupaca, in the article “Who is Choosing Thermal Sand Reclama- tion?” on p. 18. “We looked at [the market] and knew we needed to protect our future raw material.” While we focused on the sand shortage issue as part of our three-part series on raw material availabil- ity in the July, August and September issues of the magazine, our readers were still clamoring for more insight on what they could do to help their future situations. “When you are spending $4,500 to $5,500


sion by classifying thermal reclamation units as waste incinerators and then changing their mind several months later (after some heavy lobbying by the industry). To provide you the infor- mation you are seeking, we devel- oped this month’s cover story, which discusses how three metalcasters are approaching sand reclama- tion and provides a round-up of several technologies avail- able on the market. This article symbolizes


This article symbolizes the community


the community involve- ment that is required for a trade publication to be successful. You provide us additional eyes and ears in the industry so we know who the best plants are, where you need technical solutions and which technologies are changing the way our industry operates. Please keep those


involvement that is required for a


trade publication to be successful.


for a load of sand, and that’s only a week’s supply, it adds up,” said Chris Casey, Space Castings. The questions about thermal sand reclama-


tion kept coming to our offices. The chatter at the GIFA trade show this summer in Dussel- dorf, Germany, confirmed this was an industry- wide concern. And, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had even entered the discus-


Alfred T. Spada, Publisher/Editor-in-Chief


If you have any comments about this editorial or any other item that appears in MODERN CASTING, email me at aspada@afsinc.org.


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suggestions coming. If you have a problem at your plant but can’t come up with the solution, I bet others are having the same problem. Let us know what it is, and we will try to provide a solution. If we come to your facility for a tour, talk our ear off about what you want to see in the next issue. Tis is your magazine.


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