great sand, so we can ship our product further than most. So while there has been contraction in the U.S., there has been expansion of foundries in China and India.
What technological trends have you recognized in the metalcasting sand market?
Te biggest change in technology would be in coremak-
ing. Te binder systems have changed both environmentally and in terms of strength and capabilities. Tere has been a movement from green sand—big molding lines—to smaller nobake lines and permanent molding.
Do you notice a difference in the purchasing habits of your metalcasting customers in different regions of the world?
In foreign countries, be it Mexico, China or Japan,
the market is driven by quality more than anything else. If they could buy quality sand locally, they wouldn’t be buying it from us. That quality is not only due to our manufacturing process, it is the quality of the natural reserve, the sand that we mine. We don’t see different types of environmental require- ments in different countries because, no matter where you are shipping sand, you have to meet U.S. law. Rather than responding to demand, we are pushing the develop- ment of an environmentally friendly product that would be advantageous for foundries to use. It is more opportu- nistic. There is no regulation out there that is driving us to it. It is offering the foundry a more environmentally friendly product.
Your company has a good environmental record. How have you shed the environmental stigma associated with mining companies?
Fairmount Minerals is proud of its environmental history and its social responsibility. We are mining the Earth, so we’re not apologizing for that. But it gives us an opportunity to do more with our lands and be more effective for future generations. One way we do that is to reclaim our lands as fast as we can after mining them. And we reclaim them in such a way that we put them back into a more natural state than when we started. We want to improve the habitat for the wildlife that was there before we were. We plant a lot of trees in all of our locations to reduce
our carbon footprint and our carbon dioxide emissions. We have teams that are always working on energy effi- ciency, reducing our energy use and improving our effect on water quality. We serve the water filtration market throughout the world, and we incorporate that into all our locations. We have solar energy projects at our plants, and we have been working with wind energy. We are working on the transportation side of mining production. We have been working with the railroad to improve the efficiency of our deliveries. We also are working with our customers in the foundry
industry to recycle their spent sand. We have a number of projects with foundry customers to use their sand as a feed- stock for cement and compost material to be able to sell the
然在美国有经济紧缩，但是在中国和印度，铸造厂却在 扩张。
您觉得铸造用型砂市场的技术发展趋势是什么？
技术上最大的变化是制芯。粘结剂体系从环保、强度 和性能上都有所改变，有从潮模砂、大型造型线到相对 较小的自硬砂生产线和金属型铸造。
在全球的不同区域，您是否注意到您的铸造行业顾客在 采购习惯上的不同？
在国外，如墨西哥、中国或者日本，市场更多的是 由质量决定，而不是别的。如果他们能在当地买到优质 的型砂，他们就不会向我们购买。质量不仅由我们的制 造工艺决定，还受我们所拥有的自然储备的型砂质量影 响。
我们没有发现不同国家对环保要求上的不同，因为不 管你往哪里销售型砂，你都得符合美国法律。相比于相 应需求，我们更倾向于推动环境友好型产品的发展，这 对于铸造厂的使用是有益的。这更像机会主义，并没有 外在的法规要求我们去做，仅仅是为了向铸造厂提供更 加环境友好的产品。
贵公司有良好的环保记录。贵公司是怎么解决与采矿公 司相关的环保问题？
费尔芒特矿业集团为自己的环保历史和社会责任感 感到自豪。我们挖掘土地，因此我们不为此做辩驳。但 是，这给予我们机会，让我们能更好地开发我们的土 地，为后代提供更有益的土地。我们的一种做法是在采 矿之后尽快开垦土地。我们将土地开垦得比我们开采前 更加接近自然状态。我们要改善比我们更早来到这里的 野生动物的栖息地。
我们在公司所在地种植了大量的树木，以减少我们的 碳能源的消耗和二氧化碳排放量。我们有致力于提高能 源效率、降低能耗和改善对水质的团队。我们在全球范 围内服务于水过滤市场，并与将其纳入到我们当地的公 司中。我们还有太阳能项目，我们也一直致力于风能。 我们还投资矿业产品运输，并和铁路部门合作提高运输 效率。
我们还和铸造行业的顾客合作，回收他们用过的型 砂。我们和铸造行业的客户有许多项目，将他们用过的 型砂当做水泥或者肥料的原料，使之能够作为泥土产品
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