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Georg Fischer commissions production-scale pilot aluminum LPFC process.


Cymat Corp., Toronto Toronto (tərŏn`tō), city (1998 est pop. 2,400,000), provincial capital, S Ont., Canada, on Lake Ontario. Toronto is the largest city in Canada and since the 1970s has been one of the fastest-changing cities in North America, experiencing , and Georg Fischer Georg Fischer (born 1960) was a West German cross country skier who competed in the 1980s. He finished seventh in the 4 x 10 km relay at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. , Schaffhausen, Switzerland, announced they have successfully commissioned a new, commercial-scale pilot aluminum foam production system at Georg Fischer's facility in Schaffhausen.

This system can be used to produce near-net shape aluminum foam components for both automotive and non-automotive applications.

Dr. Leopold Kniewallner, Georg Fischer's automotive director of R&D, said, "Cymat has successfully transitioned their bench-scale, near-net shape low pressure foam casting (LPFC LPFC Low Profile Flotation Collar
LPFC Light Pulse Fibre Channel (adapter) 
) process into a truly productionscale commercial process."

"We are very pleased by the results of the extensive testing carried out during commissioning of the commercial scale pilot production system at Georg Fischer's facility," said Dr. Paul A. Tichauer, Cymat's president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. .
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Title Annotation:North America
Publication:Modern Casting
Date:Apr 1, 2006
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