INDUSTRY NEWS
SwRI’s Ceramic-Sand Core Casting Wins Research Award Hybrid Ceramic-Sand Core Cast-
ing Technology, developed by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), San Antonio, Texas, and Grainger and Worrall Ltd., Bridgnorth, U.K., has won a 2012 R&D 100 Award from R&D Magazine. Te technology combines aero-
space ceramic and automotive sand core casting processes for precision casting of automotive cast iron/steel components. According to a state- ment from R&D Magazine, which gives the R&D 100 Award to the 100 most significant technological achievements of the year, the process
can produce extremely small passages in metal castings. Te process was developed during
a three-year, multi-phase research and development program and designed to enable the production of heavy-duty diesel engines with a higher peak cylin- der pressure capability than current en- gines. Te new architecture is reported to enable future exhaust emissions-re- ducing and high-efficiency combustion technologies without sacrificing engine performance, size or weight. “Ceramic cores, such as those used
in the aerospace industry to cast cool- ing passages in turbine blades, do not break down in the presence of molten metal, even at very small sizes,” said Marc Megel, assistant director of the Design Development Department in SwRI’s Engine, Emissions and Vehicle Research Division.
Hunter Completes Buyout Agreement Hunter Automated Machinery,
Schaumburg, Ill., has announced the completion of an asset buyout of the company and all its foreign subsidiar- ies by current President Bill Hunter. “We have successfully crossed the
bridge of generational transition with this arrangement.” Hunter said. Te new sole owner bought the as- sets of the molding machine company held by his three sisters, Dianne, Linda and Heather. Hunter Auto- mated was founded by Al Hunter in 1964 and today operates plants in the USA, Brazil and China. Te company has European headquarters in Italy and regional offices in India. “I am very thankful to my sisters,
who worked closely with me on this agreement, allowing us to keep the company in the family,” Bill Hunter said in a letter to the company’s em- ployees. “We fully intend to continue and build on the company’s long- standing traditions of technology, quality and service to the industry.” Te agreement was finalized
on June 27. 12 | MODERN CASTING August 2012
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