INDUSTRY NEWS
Remote Controlled Machines
The next generation of remote-controlled machines for foundries has arrived!
Clean ladles, runners, furnaces, torpedoes and kilns quickly, safely and accurately with a state-of-the art Brokk remote-controlled machine. Our all-new B800 is a 12-ton powerhouse with over 21 feet of vertical reach in a compact package. We mount a hard-hitting, heat-shielded Atlas Copco breaker on a 360 degree rotating, custom-designed three-piece arm, and include a special bit for heavy-duty prying. A new two-way radio control box offers finely tuned operation from a safe distance. For over 30 years, Brokk machines have proven themselves in foundries and mills all over the world.
Contact us to find out how you can take your processes to the next level.
Brokk. Bring it on.
INDUSTRY NEWS
Waupaca Foundry Recognized as Top Supplier
Waupaca Foundry received the 2014 Supplier Recognition
Award from Linamar Corporation for being the top supplier in the castings commodity category in terms of quality, delivery, service and support. Linamar, a leading global precision machin- ing supplier of automotive, off -highway and industrial products, recognized Waupaca Foundry and other top suppliers at an awards ceremony on May 15 at Linamar headquarters in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. “We want to recognize our key strategic suppliers that help
us move forward in our industry,” said Caryn Bell, director of purchasing for aluminum and iron castings at Linamar. “Wau- paca Foundry is a great partner for us and has helped ensure our parts are manufacturable by being aggressive on value analysis and value engineering which resulted in cost savings.” Waupaca Foundry has been working with Linamar with gray and ductile iron castings for more than 20 years. Castings sup- plied include diff erential cases, housings, bedplate and covers.
NEWSCAST ASIMCO International Casting Co. Ltd., has reached
an agreement with SinterCast AB, Katrineholm, Sweden, for the installation of a process control system at ASIM- CO’s metalcasting facility in Shanxi, China. SinterCast’s System 3000 Plus will control the CGI process including the thermal analysis, automatic feedback control of the base treatment process, and feedforward optimization.
Maus, Campodarsego, Italy; Savelli, Brescia, Italy; and
Fritz Hansberg, Modena, Italy, announced they are enter- ing a strategic partnership agreement under which Maus, maker of automatic grinding and vertical turning machin- ery, will acquire both Savelli, producer of green sand mold- ing lines and sand plants, and Fritz Hansberg, coremaking equipment provider. T e resulting group will be a provider of foundry automation and machining equipment.
Laempe Mossner Sinto, Meitzendorf, Germany, was
launched as an alliance between core technology com- pany Laempe & Mossner and the world’s largest foundry equipment manufacturer Sinto Group. Sinto acquired 40% of the shares of Laempe, with the majority 60% of shares remaining with the owner family Mossner.
B&L Information Systems, Bridgman, Mich., has an-
nounced “Odyssey Boot Camp” training class, which will be a two-day education opportunity for Odyssey customers. Scheduled for Aug. 13-14, the course will off er separate but parallel class tracks for customers who use diff erent versions of the Odyssey systems.
Brokk Inc. | 1144 Village Way, Monroe WA 360-794-1277 | 800-621-7856
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www.brokk.com/us 14 | MODERN CASTING July 2015 Clinkenbeard, Rockford, Ill., completed the necessary
requirements to achieve AS9100(C) recertifi cation to the Quality Management System (QMS) for the aerospace and defense industries. T e company reported that the audit resulted in recertifi cation and yielded zero fi ndings.
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