INDUSTRY NEWS NEWSCAST O’Fallon Casting, O’Fallon,
Mo., has provided a $5,000 gift to the Missouri University of Science and Technology in Support of the Materials Science & Engineering Senior Design Project. O’Fallon Casting enjoys a longstanding rela- tionship with the university.
Esco Corp., Portland, Ore., has an- nounced it will close its metalcasting operation in Nisku, Alberta, Canada, in August 2015. Te plant manufac- tures steel parts for oil sands mining equipment and employs 100 workers. Te facility reportedly will be decom- missioned and its equipment removed for use in other plants.
Core and mold supplier Chem- Cast Ltd., Danville, Ill., recently ceased operations.
Blast Cleaning Technologies,
New Berlin, Wis., a supplier of shot blasting systems and parts, has purchased expandable adjacent land. Plans are being developed for a 40,000-sq.-ft. manufacturing facility and upgrade of the current 10,000-sq.-ft. facility onsite. It will be designed to improve work flow and information sharing between design teams in the company’s In- novation Center of Excellence.
Ajax TOCCO Magnethermic
Corp., Warren, Ohio, reported it has received an order from a large mining company in Mexico for one stationary channel induction furnace for holding and maintaining at tem- perature a bath of molten zinc. The new furnace is designed to improve capacity by holding the molten zinc
poured from existing Ajax TOCCO melting furnaces in operation at the facility.
Synchro ERP, London and
Austin, Texas, is celebrating its 40th anniversary. In 1975, the company’s startup team designed a casting industry-specific production control system at the request of unprec- edented interest from the metalcast- ing industry.
C.I. Hayes, Cranston, R.I., announced it installed a continu- ous oil quench vacuum furnace for hardening tool steels. The company equipped the modular furnace with silicon carbide heating elements and a ceramic fiber heating chamber rated to 2,000F, allowing it to oper- ate in air or under vacuum.
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