Alcoa Howmet, precision castings of Tennessee, Uni-Cast take ICI casting contest top honors.Alcoa Howmet, Cleveland, Precision Castings of Tennessee Inc., Gallitin, Tenn., and Uni-Cast, Londonderry, N.H., won the top prizes in the Investment Casting investment casting Precision casting for forming metal shapes with minutely precise details. Casting bronze or precious metals typically involves several steps, including forming a mold around the sculptured form; detaching the mold (in two or more sections); coating its Institute's (ICI (language) ICI - An extensible, interpretated language by Tim Long with syntax similar to C. ICI adds high-level garbage-collected associative data structures, exception handling, sets, regular expressions, and dynamic arrays. ) casting competition. The award winners were selected based on the production of castings that demonstrated the unique benefits of the investment casting process. Alcoa's Howmet Products and Services' Ti-Cast facility, Whitehall, Mich., received the aerospace award for a flight control manifold, manufactured for customer Parker Hannifin Parker Hannifin Corporation (originally Parker Appliance Company) NYSE: PH, of Cleveland, Ohio, is a manufacturer of motion and control technologies. Founded in 1924, the company has been publicly traded on the NYSE since December 9, 1964. . "It is a product that could not be produced by any other process than investment casting," said Michael Pepper Professor Sir Michael Pepper FRS FInstP (born 10 August 1942) is a British physicist. Sir Michael was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1983[1]. He formed the Semiconductor Physics research group[2] , vice president and general manager of the Whitehall facility. "The manifold has one of the most complex geometries ever manufactured using the investment casting process." The casting features hollow serpentine passageways, compactness, asymmetry and net-shape surface areas cast from a titanium alloy. Precision Castings won the electronics category for their laser range finder and target acquisitioning system. The stainless steel stainless steel: see steel. stainless steel Any of a family of alloy steels usually containing 10–30% chromium. The presence of chromium, together with low carbon content, gives remarkable resistance to corrosion and heat. casting reduced machining and weight, while increasing strength and corrosion resistance. A fan housing used in the filtration system of an expiditionary fighting vehicle won the military category for Uni-Cast. Investment casting, according to the judges, was the most economical means of producing the part, which integrated several components. |
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