AFS announces winners of 2005 Casting Competition at CastExpo '05, ME Global wins Casting of Year.With an assortment of cast components of all shapes, sizes and metals, AFS A distributed file system for large, widely dispersed Unix and Windows networks from Transarc Corporation, now part of IBM. It is noted for its ease of administration and expandability and stems from Carnegie-Mellon's Andrew File System. AFS - Andrew File System honored nine metalcasting firms and OEMs in the AFS Marketing Div./Engineered Casting Solutions 2005 Casting Competition. These companies were recognized at CastExpo '05 on April 19 in St. Louis. ME Global (Elecmetal), Duluth, Minn., was awarded Casting of the Year honors for its 2,200-lb. (998-kg) steel tread belt shoe component for the NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. crawler Also known as a "Web crawler," "spider," "ant," "robot" (bot) and "intelligent agent," a crawler is a program that searches for information on the Web. Crawlers are widely used by Web search engines to index all the pages on a site by following the links from page to page. transporters. The casting, which was produced through the V-process casting method, is 90 in. (2.3 m) long, 25 in. (0.6 m) wide and 16.5 in. (0.4 m) tall. Under a tight timeline, ME Global engineered a steel alloy and cast more than 1,000 of these shoes to help expedite NASA's return-to-space program for the space shuttle space shuttle, reusable U.S. space vehicle. Developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), it consists of a winged orbiter, two solid-rocket boosters, and an external tank. ; Discovery is scheduled to launch this summer. More than 450 shoes have been installed on each of the two transporters, which weigh 6 million lbs. (2.7 million kg). AFS also awarded four casting producers with Best-In-Class honors. These firms included Aristo Cast Inc., Almont Mich., for its magnesium windshield wiper components; Burnstein von Seelen Precision Casting Corp., Abbeville, S.C., for its aluminum-bronze jam nut See See also: Jam part for seismic applications; Denison Industries, Denison, Texas, for an aluminum elevation housing "turtle" used on naval vessels; and General Motors Powertrain USA, Pontiac, Mich., for an aluminum LS7 dry sump oil tank for the 2006 Chevrolet Corvette corvette, small warship, classed between a frigate and a sloop-of-war. Corvettes usually were flush-decked and carried fewer than 28 guns. They were widely employed in escorting convoys and attacking merchant ships during the great naval wars of the late 18th and . Further, four casting firms received Honorable Mention recognition. The firms were A.L. Johnson Co., Camarillo, Calif., for its aluminum laser housing component; Piad Precision Casting Corp., Greensburg, Pa., for a nickel-aluminum-bronze push arm used in lawn mowers; Mercury Marine, Fond du Lac Fond du Lac (fŏn` də lăk', –jə–), city (1990 pop. 37,757), seat of Fond du Lac co., E central Wis., in a resort region at the south end of Lake Winnebago; inc. 1852. , Wis., for its aluminum Verado L6 four-stroke cylinder head for boat engines, and The Dotson Co. Inc., Mankato, Minn., for its ductile iron gooseneck trailer hitch conversion kit. This year's competition was co-sponsored by Magma Foundry Technologies, Schaumburg, Ill. The full story detailing the honorees of the 2005 AFS Casting Competition will be published in the June 2005 issue of MODERN CASTING. |
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