Companies Remet Corporation Recalls Four Decades


as Investment Casting Industry Supplier Remet and its predecessor compa-


With four decades years of supplying


products and technology to the Investment Casting Industry, Remet Corporation re- cently marked its 40th anniversary. Founded by Jim Pyne in December


1970, the company got its start in Los Angeles, CA providing technical support to investment casters in the 11 Western states. Since then, Remet has become a "household" word among shellbuilding and wax departments in investment cast- ing facilities worldwide. In 1972, with support from its ma-


jor supplier relationships, the company became national in scope, relocated its headquarters to the Utica, NY area, and continued to extend its sales and techni- cal support business model. Within four years, Remet had start-


ed a manufacturing facility in Utica. The first product produced was a hybrid ethyl silicate binder for the investment casting industry. Later products included prehy- drolyzed ethyl silicate binders, polymer additives and proprietary custom blended compounds. In 1986, Remet capitalized on an op-


portunity to distribute pure and denatured ethyl alcohol to the cosmetic, food and medical markets in Southern California and started a denatured alcohol business at its La Mirada, CA facility. To complement its manufactured


products, Remet formed a division to handle the sale of products for non-metal- lurgical applications. This is now called the Enhanced Products business. Remet was acquired in 1999 by


Burmah Castrol and merged the Dussek Campbell Yates (DCY) wax business into the combined business, making Remet one of the world’s largest consumables supplier to the global investment casting market. In 2003, Remet was bought out by


a management group led by its president and CEO-John Paraszczak, who champi- oned the 1999 merger; he had served as president of the Dussek Campbell Yates


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investment casting wax business for nearly two decades. Remet started SouthWest Wax in


2004 to launch its Enhanced Products business and provide local investment casting wax manufacturing to the West- ern U.S. The acquisition of Calwax Cor- poration in 2007 further expanded the Enhanced Products business. Throughout its 40-year history,


Remet has developed many industry leading products that have contributed to the growth of the investment casting industry:


Remasil® brand refractories, were


the first to be developed specifically for investment casting, followed by AD- BOND® brand enhanced binder sys- tems; and complete pattern wax/binder/ refractory systems developed to meet the special needs of foundries. Other devel- opments include pattern wax and shell systems to address the needs of foundries casting reactive alloys; environmentally safe fillers for pattern waxes; soluble waxes with rapid dissolution rates; and pattern waxes with rapid set times.


nies have been issued 46 patents covering wax, binder and shell technology devel- oped to advance the investment casting process. Its technologists continue to explore new opportunities to improve the centuries old investment casting process. Remet is ISO-9001:2008 certified


and has approximately 100 employees (U.S. and U.K.) and operates on a global basis with over 2,000 customers world- wide.


In addition to the Utica, NY corpo-


rate office, Remet sales offices are located in Palatine, IL, La Mirada and Irwindale, CA and Rochester Kent, UK; with an ex- tensive network of technical representa- tives and agents located in Continental Europe, Asia, Africa, Brazil and Austra- lia/New Zealand. Remet-owned plant site locations are Utica, NY, La Mirada and Irwindale, CA and Mesa, AZ. Re- search and development and technical support facilities are located in Utica, NY, Rochester Kent, UK and Irwindale, CA sites.


Core-Tech Among First to Install State-of-the-Art Digital Radiography for Inspection in Core Making


Core-Tech recently announced the


installation of a new digital radiography unit in its main manufacturing facility and will use the unit to x-ray and inspect the ceramic cores manufactured in their plant.


Company officials indicate the digi-


tal radiography machine is the first unit of its kind to be used in the inspection process in the coremaking industry. It is capable of generating digital images up to 11 x 14” for viewing on a computer monitor. These digital images can also be transmitted electronically to the Core- Tech customer to be approved before the actual product is shipped. “We’re always looking for ways to improve our processes,” says Jim Cor-


bett, president of Core-Tech, “and this machine will allow us to detect any in- ternal defects to prevent product failures in our customer’s production lines." He noted the ability to email the images to customers will speed the rate of commu- nication and significantly decrease any unseen interior defeats. Core-Tech is a leading providers of


precision ceramic cores for investment castings occurring for mainly the aero- space, automotive, commercial, gas tur- bine and medical markets. For more information, contact Core-


Techat 440-946-8324, fax 440-946-8325, or visit www.core-tech-inc.com.


January 2011


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