product as a soil. We have been a leading company involved with getting the U.S Environmental Protection Agency’s ap- proval for the use of spent foundry sand as a build material and as a non-hazardous material. We accomplished that goal two years ago. Virtually every type of foundry sand can be reused for another purpose.
What is the future of the metalcasting market? The quality of the supplies available to the foundry
will be increasingly important. Sand is still a fairly small cost component of the end casting, but it is incred- ibly important to the end product and the ability of the foundry to make money. We have the right product for the foundry to be able to keep the net cost of its sand supply as low as possible. We also are differentiated in not just the product quality, but also the technical exper- tise to make a difference in the metalcasting facility. We are a rapidly growing company, and we are going
to continue to be a supplier to the foundry industry. We will continue to work on new technologies, and our sands will meet all of the metalcasting industry’s require- ments going forward. We see a lot of expansion coming in Mexico. We are shipping sand to China on a weekly basis, and we expect that to grow, as well as in India, as the need for quality castings grows. We anticipate that metalcasting is going to change
here in the U.S., and it will become more specialized. We see a lot of effort and work to improve near-shape castings. We think that is the future. If the metalcast- ers in the U.S. want to hold their position, they have to make their castings as near-shape as possible to elimi- nate machining costs for their customers. To assist the industry, we are doing sponsored research on the expan- sion characteristics of sand. We found the old numbers that were used were created in error, so we are working with a U.S.-based university so we can truly measure the expansion characteristics.
What is the future of Fairmount Minerals?
We have a lot of people with a lot of experience in the metalcasting industry. I was in the foundry indus- try before sand, and we have a lot of people that have those same credentials. We have a lot of people in our Fairmount family that received a metalcasting-focused education, so we have an enormous amount of boots in the industry. Until recently, I have been the chief executive officer
and president, but we named a new president in Janu- ary. I am still the CEO of the company, but Jenniffer Deckard is now the president. She has an accounting background but has been with us for 19 years and under- stands the markets we are in and the value of the markets to us. We are expecting an excellent transition and com- mitment to the foundry industry. ■
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进行销售。作为领先的公司，我们得到美国环境保护署 的支持，参与将铸造用过的型砂转变为建筑材料或者无 害材料的研发工作。我们在两年前完成了该目标。实际 上，所有种类的铸造用砂都能再利用于其它用途。
铸造市场的未来是什么？
向铸造厂供应产品的质量将日益重要。虽然型砂依旧 是最终铸件的相当小的成本组成，但是它对于最终产品 和铸造厂盈利能力是极其重要的。我们向铸造厂提供合 适的产品，使其型砂供应净成本能够保持尽可能得低。 我们不仅区分产品质量，还区分技术专长，以便于对铸 造厂进行区分。
我们是一家迅速发展的公司，而且我们将继续作为铸 造行业原材料的供应商。我们将继续开发新技术，使我 们的型砂能够满足所有铸造行业未来设备的发展需求。 我们在墨西哥完成了许多扩张。我们每周向中国提供型 砂，并且希望和在印度一样，随着高质量铸件需求的增 加，在中国的型砂销量也能增加。
我们期待美国的铸造行业进行变革，并将变得更加专 业化。我们做了许多努力和工作来改善近成形铸造。我 们认为这是未来发展趋势。如果美国铸造厂要保住自己 的地位，他们必须使铸件尽可能地精确，为他们的顾客 消除机加工成本。为了帮助制造业发展，我们启动了关 于型砂膨胀特性的研究。我们发现许多过去被发现使用 的旧数据是错误的，因此，我们和美国当地大学合作， 以便能够正确测量型砂的膨胀特性。
费尔芒特矿业集团的未来展望如何？
我们有许多拥有铸造经验的员工。在做型砂销售之 前，我就曾在铸造厂工作，而且我们有许多人有着相同 的背景。在费尔芒特的大家庭里，有许多人接受了铸造 的培训，所以我们的公司拥有众多的人才。 到目前为止，我一直是首席执行官和总裁。不过， 我们在一月份任命了新总裁。我依旧是公司的首席执行 官，而Jenniffer Deckerd现在是总裁。她是学会计出 身，但是已经和我们一起工作了19年，知道我们所在的 市场和该市场对我们的价值。我们期待对铸造业有一个 良好的转变和为铸造做贡献。■
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