CASTING INNOVATIONS Bay Cast’s Scientific Contribution


Brothers Scott, Max and Jason Holman are familiar with big. The three brothers own Bay Cast, Bay City, Mich., a supplier of heavy- sectioned steel castings up to 70,000 lbs., and tool and stain- less steel castings ranging from 500–30,000 lbs. But a recent Bay Cast project


that called for the creation of a gigantic 13-ft. steel ring for the National Superconducting Cyclo- tron Laboratory at Michigan State Univ. (MSU), East Lansing, Mich., was something exceptionally large in scope. The “cyclotron stopper”— a device that looks like a shimmer- ing oversized hockey puck—weighs 200 tons and is used to slow down beams of charged particles travel- ing at half the speed of light. Finished in Bay Cast’s newly opened 17,600-sq.-ft. expansion, the cyclotron stopper was the main feature in the company’s $1.3 million contract with MSU. “Tis was unique because there


were so many large components, which had to be cast, machined and mechanically fit together like a jigsaw puzzle,” Max Holman said. “While many of our other projects have a large scope of work, none has ever required so many large cast parts to


be assembled into a single unit.” Curiously enough, the partnership


between MSU and Bay Cast traces back to the 1970s, when Scott, Max and Jason’s father, Scott Holman Sr.,


manufactured equipment for the university’s original cyclotron facility in cooperation with a local


metalcasting facility. For more information, visit www.baycast.com.


The cyclotron stopper is a collection of huge steel castings that weighs 200 tons in total.


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