INDUSTRY NEWS Splitvane Engineers Building
Cokeless Foundry in U.S. Splitvane Engineers Inc. is building a facility rated
for 9,000 tons per year of iron and steel castings in Sumas, Wash. The plan includes the firm’s own design for a gas-
fired reverberatory furnace that features a method of recuperating heat from waste gases. Following a permitting process that involved tough environmental regulations and a lack of similar facilities in the U.S., the group obtained its order to construct. The group intends to offer engineering consulting
to firms willing to convert from coke-fired cupolas to natural gas fired cokeless melting, as an alternative to electric arc or electric induction melting.
Rolls-Royce to Close Miss. Facility Te Sun Herald reports Rolls-Royce North America is
closing the foundry at its Pascagoula, Miss., ship propeller manufacturing plant and expects to lose 24 skilled workers of the 47 employees there. Te downsizing in the cast- ing side will take place over the next 18 months, company officials said, with plans to reduce as many of the jobs as possible by attrition. “Tere is simply not the quantity of Naval contracts
coming through the facility any more,” according to George Freeland, Jackson County Economic Development Founda- tion director. “Te business is down. Te upside is that they still have the machine aspect of the business, the Machin- ing Center of Excellence. Tey won’t pour the castings for propellers there anymore, but they will bring them in and machine them there.” Joel P. Reuter with Rolls-Royce North America called
the move a restructuring in response to market condi- tions. He noted the Rolls-Royce Pascagoula plant is the only privately owned foundry in the U.S. capable of casting and finishing large fixed-pitch propellers to Navy quality standards. The propellers for today’s aircraft carriers are 26 feet in diameter and made of a nickel- aluminum-manganese-bronze alloy.
NEWSCAST Hunter Foundry Machinery Corp., Schaumburg, Ill., is
celebrating its 50th anniversary. Mechanical engineer Wil- liam “Al” Hunter invented a gravity-filled automated match- plate molding machine in 1963, the first HMP-10. Te new machine streamlined laborious metal casting processes. With it, an operator reportedly could produce as many molds in one hour as most molders could produce in an entire day on a jolt-squeeze machine. Today Hunter has sales offices in the U.S., India, China, Brazil and Europe.
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