CASTING INNOVATIONS
CASTING INNOVATIONS Improved Blast Performance “
Saves $64K Per Year U.S. Foundry, Medley, Fla., supplies towns and cities
I’m very satisfi ed with
my long-term print advertis- ing program in MCDP—it’s the only advertising I do. It gives me great visibility and name recognition, both with existing customers and with new ones. And the steady fl ow of new business it brings in easily justifi es the investment.
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Kevin Evers President St. Louis Precision Casting
across America with manhole covers, catch basins, curb and gutter inlets and grating products. T e gray iron castings are not usually painted and are surface fi nished in a pass-through monorail shot blast line. In 2013, the fi nish ing team at U.S. Foundry discov-
ered increased levels of abrasive waste in their media blast system and sensed they might be buying too much abrasive for their machine. Wheelabrator Plus, La- Grange, Ga., analyzed the line for them by focusing on
fi ve areas of concern: • Examining blast pattern eff ectiveness, or blast pat- tern targeting relative to the total work envelope. • Observing wheel amp effi ciency relative to throughput
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U.S. Foundry surface fi nishes its gray iron castings in a pass-through monorail shot blast line.
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