INDUSTRY NEWS
NEWSCAST General Kinematics, Crystal
Lake, Ill., has launched a new website that features a number of galleries of historical castings from around the world. “The Final Shakeout,” at
www.thefinalshake-
out.com, includes images of first pours, last pours and commemo- rative castings, with additional information, dates and historical descriptions.
The Teksid Group, Turin, Italy,
has ordered a third process control system from SinterCast Inc., Na- perville, Ill. The SinterCast System 3000 Plus system will be installed at the Teksid do Brasil metalcast- ing facility in Belo Horizonte, Bra- zil. The installation is expected to begin operations in the first quarter of 2016 and will initially support product development of passenger vehicle, commercial vehicle and industrial power castings.
HPM North America Corp.,
Marion, Ohio, has received an order for a new 4,500-ton Series II diecasting machine from Walker Die Casting, Lewisburg, Tenn., a supplier of aluminum die castings to the automotive, truck and out- door equipment industries. The Se- ries II machine will be the largest cold-chamber diecasting machine produced by HPM North America, a member of the YIZUMI Group, Foshan, China. Walker plans to receive the new casting equipment in early 2017.
25th
ESI, Paris, recently celebrated the anniversary of launching Pro-
CAST, a package of casting simula- tion software that performs analyses and defect evaluations for all casting process and alloys.
Beta Die Casting Equipment
Ltd., Cambridge, Ontario, Canada, one of the world’s largest wholesaler of used diecasting machines and diecasting-related equipment, recently celebrated its 20th
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Flowserve announced plans to
close its Dayton, Ohio, metalcasting facility in 2016. Casting opera- tions will continue until the second quarter of 2016, when the facility will continue to operate as a pat- tern storage warehouse. Te closure
will eliminate 80 jobs. Flowserve, which produces pumps, seals and valves for the power, oil, gas and chemical industries, attributed the closing to a rapidly changing market, declining sales and a loss in operating income.
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