EIGHT STATES ACCOUNT FOR 56%
in at a close second with 595 facili- ties, or 35.3%. Many facilities report using
multiple processes. One hundred and twenty four facilities use both the green sand and permanent mold processes (7.3%), and 417 facilities use the green sand and nobake processes (24.7%). Seven facilities reported using the V- process, a casting method with a vacuum holding unbonded sand in a mold during pouring.
Plants Per State Leader: Ohio
Number of Plants in Each State
Ohio continues to be the industry leader in number of metalcasting facilities with 160. The top eight states in number of plants represent 55.8% of the nation’s total.
GREEN SAND, NOBAKE TOP PROCESSES
Last Place: Hawaii and North Dakota (Note: some states have no participating facilities.)
Ohio leads the industry in number of metalcasting facili- ties reported, with 160 (or 9.5% of the total responses from facili- ties). Pennsylvania upped its total by t
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2 in total facilities. three of its total,
in 2014. Wisconsin ranked fourth with 124 facilities, and Illinois r repor
ee of its total, dropping to 130 isco
cilities, while Michigan linois rounded out the states
eporting more than 100 facilities, each with 115.
h with 115.
Two states—Hawaii and North Dakota—each have one metalcaster participating in our research, as does the District of Columbia.
h hav ticipating in our r ict of Columbia.
T e other states with fewer than 10 facilities reported are Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, Ne- braska, Nevada, New Mexico, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming. Alaska and Dela- ware did not have any participating metalcasting facilities.
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e did not hav asting fa
Value-Added Services alue-
Leader: Finish Machining Last Place: Coating Of the 1,688 facilities that participated in the U.S. census, 1,186 (70.3%) reported offering at least one value-added service
Total Number of U.S. Plants
The number of facilities using a horizontally parted green sand process dropped by 18 from 2014’s total, while diecasting saw its total jump by fi ve in 2015.
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y two to 136, enough to land the stone State as the nation’s no. cilities. California lost
participated in the U.S census, 1,186 (70.3%) reported offering at least one value-added service. Machining was the most popular service, with 893 facilities (52.9% of all responses; 75.3% of facilities with value-added operations) of-
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