TOP CASTING STATES 160 Number of Plants in Each State
Number of metalcasting facilites in Ohio, the state with the most plants. That amounts to one plant per 256 square miles (land.)
GREEN SAND, NOBAKE TOP PROCESSES Process
Most Common: Green Sand, Horizontally-Parted
Least Common: V-Process While 609 metalcasting facilities
reported using the green sand horizon- tally parted process and 203 reported using the green sand, vertically-parted process, a 666 facilities use one or both of the green sand processes.
V-process is the least common,
but the seven facilities using it remain from previous years to fi ll the niche demand.
Plants Per State
Most Prolifi c: Ohio Least Prolifi c: Hawaii and North
Dakota
Ohio again reigns as the state with the most metalcasting facilities, boast- ing 160 while also 35th in state size by square land miles, meaning there is one plant per 256 square miles (land). Pennsylvania, California, Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois also have more than 100 plants.
Two states, Hawaii and North
Dakota, each have one metalcasting facility, although Alaska and Delaware have no metalcasting facilities.
Total Number of U.S. Plants Massachusettes, the 45th smallest
state, has 37 casting facilities, which is about one plant per 212 square miles (land).
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