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Metal Casting Design & Purchasing magazine columnist Jiten Shah points out the unique casting features of the
winner of the 2014 Casting of the Year competition. Watch it at www.
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Lodge Manufacturing produces its popular cast iron skillets in Tennessee.
Giving the Industry a Face to Remember
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several examples of metal castings used in marine applications, such as
the U.S. Navy littoral combat ships highlighted in this issue’s feature, “Building Better Ships.”
U.S. metalcasting earned a starring
role in a segment on NBC Nightly News June 30. The segment spotlighted Lodge Manufacturing Co., its cast iron pans and its metalcasting facility in South Pittsburg, Tenn. Usually, cast metal components are hidden under sheet metal and plastic or camoufl aged in an assembly of parts, fasteners, wiring and rubber. Casting companies like Lodge,
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whose products are seen and touched by people in their daily lives, fi ll a unique role as visual representation of the industry. These companies include East Jordan Iron Works and Neenah, whose names are etched in castings along countless sidewalks and streets. Or Kohler, whose cast plumbing and bath fi xtures are touched by millions of people every day, and Ping, who casts its golf club heads in Arizona. These ambassadors for the industry
are doing it well. Lodge’s cast iron skillets are often given as speaker awards at industry conferences, and at a recent conference I attended, the presenters could not contain their smiles upon receiving their U.S.-made cookware. It’s not their most important job, and it doesn’t make them the best metalcasters in the industry, but these businesses provide faces to the industry. —Shannon Wetzel, Senior Editor
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