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New deck runs like a Deere: John Deere's Waterloo Foundry was able to accomplish more than one of its goals when it recently upgraded its melt deck.	Cover story	Oct 1, 2009	1432
P&H mines casting prospects: for P&H Mining Equipment, in-house fabrications are a necessity. But sometimes they're not the most efficient way to do the job.		Sep 1, 2009	2111
Gimmicks aside, waiting for your cat delivers.		Sep 1, 2009	744
Going back to high school: a handful of educators and metalcasters are working to put the ancient art back into secondary school curriculum.		Jul 1, 2009	1495
Keeping education going: you've decided you want to offer your employees ongoing education. How do you go about it?		Jul 1, 2009	1343
A metalcaster goes to the hill: Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) took his roots in diecasting and adult education to Washington, D.C., when he was elected U.S. congressman by the second congressional district of Kentucky last year.	Interview	Jul 1, 2009	2933
24 hundred hours of Obama: President Obama has been in office for more than 100 days. Is the metalcasting industry counting the hours until he leaves?		Jun 1, 2009	2459
Wolverine Bronze flips the mold: the economy hasn't been predictable, so Wolverine Bronze hasn't been either.	Cover story	Jun 1, 2009	1723
The best of the best: this year's best research, delivered at the 113th Metalcasting Congress, gives us better modeling, improved nondestructive testing, reduced defects, and updates on the politics of global warming.	Conference notes	May 1, 2009	1491
Cummins: what's in a name? Cummins produces more than just engines, and it buys more castings than just blocks and heads.	Company overview	Apr 1, 2009	2104
Stimul-us? With the metalcasting forecast turned downward for 2009, can the recently passed stimulus bill help?		Mar 1, 2009	1972
Morel Industries is back: by moving into a larger manufacturing space, Morel Industries has continued its eight-year return from temporary hiatus.		Mar 1, 2009	2448
Cores, cores everywhere: many metalcasters are swimming in inventoried cores, but certain strategies can help keep them afloat.		Feb 1, 2009	1944
EBAA banks on future success: after building a new metalcasting facility with cash on hand, EBAA Iron Co. is now weathering the economic downturn and biding its time until conditions improve.	Cover story	Jan 1, 2009	2240
The bell tolls for metalcasters: metalcasting always has been linked with the centuries-old art of bell making.		Jan 1, 2009	1555
Will this book help your productivity?	Editorial	Jan 1, 2009	720
Avoid the methylene blue blues: one of the sand tests vital to your plant's success is also one of the most controversial in the industry.		Dec 1, 2008	1648
Casting puts out the fire: Dotson Iron Castings converted a multi-piece weldment to several metal castings, reducing the assembly's weight and improving its appearance.		Nov 1, 2008	1131
Avoiding fatalities: while accidents can never be entirely avoided, metalcasters must take steps to ensure their employees don't pay the ultimate price.	Cover story	Oct 1, 2008	1838
Brembo's co-cast lets you stop fast: combining the capabilities of aluminum and iron into one component, Brembo produced a brake disc that is the best of both worlds.		Oct 1, 2008	1133
Illuminating core gas: gas defects have longed plagued the metalcasting industry, but the findings of a former research consortium can help limit them.	Editorial	Oct 1, 2008	1793
American Aerospace catches fire: when American Aerospace Technical Castings saw its past go up in smoke, a spark of hope kept it looking toward the future.	Cover story	Jul 1, 2008	2354
Adding value through customer service: two metalcasters are taking customer service beyond the traditional receptionist in a headset.		Jul 1, 2008	1402
Anchors away: cast iron often is used in the manufacture of marine anchors, symbols of strength and stability.		Jul 1, 2008	283
Quantifying customer relationships.		Jul 1, 2008	877
Boosting production at Boose: the cross pollination of ideas between two different plants has turned the Boose companies into a jobbing juggernaut.	Company overview	Mar 1, 2008	1994
Coming clean on chemicals: recent legislation requires metalcasters to report to the government on the chemicals in their plants.		Mar 1, 2008	2093
Denison's offense is a good defense: Denison Industries makes defense-quality castings but delivers them to customers in several industries.	Cover story	Feb 1, 2008	2370
Castings are closer than they appear: while some of the major U.S. and Asian automakers head to low-cost countries for castings, others are keeping it domestic.	Company overview	Jan 1, 2008	1862
Finding lost foam: the metalcasting industry continues to pour time and effort into improving the lost foam market, so why has domestic growth fallen short of expectations?		Dec 1, 2007	2173
Instrumental in making music: whether clearly visible or behind the scenes, metal castings are critical in the manufacture of many musical instruments.		Nov 1, 2007	1441
Share and share for cash.		Nov 1, 2007	861
Avoding accidents: stay up to speed on some of the more common safety hazards in a metalcasting facility, and you can stop them in their tracks.		Oct 1, 2007	2162
Metalcasting works fore golfers: in the world of golf club making, perception tends to butt heads with reality when comparing cast and forged irons.		Oct 1, 2007	2136
Metalcaster of the Year: GM's SMCO: General Motors' Saginaw Metal Casting Operations recently developed and installed a unique version of precision sand technology, earning it the title of Modern Casting Metalcaster of the Year.	Cover story	Aug 1, 2007	3036
Will Washington leave metalcasters in the cold? The manufacturing industry needs help from the government, and five issues will have the most effect--currency manipulation, illegal immigration, unionization, paid leave and energy cost reduction.		Jul 1, 2007	1875
Farrar goes from start to finish: Farrar Corp. has increased revenues by a factor of five since it devoted itself to becoming a one-stop ductile iron supplier in 1988.	Cover story	Jul 1, 2007	2790
Nemak accelerates on the global track: you don't become the world's largest producer of engine castings without a handle on the most up-to-date technology, but how it's managed is equally critical.		May 1, 2007	2573
Learning from the Starfish, Spider.		May 1, 2007	614
California: the copper stopper? Metalcasters and engineers have joined forces to adapt to a new legislative measure that decreased the amount of lead allowed in copper plumbing.		Apr 1, 2007	1637
Castings put the motor in record breaking cycle: the fastest motorcycle in the world was developed from a blank sheet of paper and a little help from the metalcasting process.	Cover story	Mar 1, 2007	2843
The turtle's back: rebuilding the first U.S. submarine required some guesswork, but the casting process that created its critical hatch component was a no-brainer.		Mar 1, 2007	1331
Saving on sand disposal: some metalcasters have been achieving disposal savings for their used metalcasting sand for more than a decade, but the game has grown and evolved.		Feb 1, 2007	1734
10 ways to zap your energy bill: implement these ten low- to zero-cost ideas, and the rising price of energy won't leave you in the dark.		Feb 1, 2007	1842
Earn your finishing school diploma: to go to the head of the class in product flow, you've got to start at the back of your process--in the finishing room.		Jan 1, 2007	2104
Put in reverse: in order to put a classic, extremely rare Duesenberg Model J into gear, metalcasting engineers had to go in reverse.		Nov 1, 2006	1649
Bucking up to go lean: Buck Co. Inc., Quarryville, Pa., began a significant expansion six months ago, and its experience with lean manufacturing helped pave the way to increased capacity.		Oct 1, 2006	1628
No day at the beach: the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has been threatening to lessen exposure to the respirable crystalline silica in metalcasting sand for more than 10 years. Now, they are finally doing something about it.		Oct 1, 2006	1674
Turn a rough rider into smooth operator: when you're using a bonded sand casting process, improving your surface finish can be a difficult task. But it also can be invaluable.		Aug 1, 2006	1597
RP checks out fast: no one is going to ask you if you'd like paper or plastic, but if you know where to look, you may be able to fill a rapid prototyping (RP) order without first building a plastic, 3-D model.		Aug 1, 2006	2117
Metalcasters attempt to mold U.S. policy: the metalcasting industry has descended upon Capitol Hill to lobby four of its most pressing issues.		Jun 1, 2006	1701