How to make this year's Buyers Guide work for you: knowing your way around the Modern Casting Buyer's Guide will make locating supplier sources for your much-needed equipment, products and services quicker and easier.In an industry like metalcasting, finding the right source for equipment and products can have a significant effect on not only a facility's costs, but also on the quality of the castings it produces. Realizing that metalcasters rely on MODERN CASTING to put them in touch with the firms that supply the products/equipment they need, this magazine has published an annual Buyer's Guide issue since 1963. This page highlights how to use the 2007 Buyer's Guide daily during the next 12 months, whether it be for ordering additional products/equipment, soliciting quotes, finding answers to your technical questions or simply requesting literature on a product that might be of use in your metalcasting facility. Listed below are the main sections of this year's Buyer's Guide. The guide has been broken down in this manner to save you time as you search for suppliers of metalcasting equipment, materials and services. Suppliers online (p. BG 4) Suppliers Online is designed to provide easy access to information from today's leading suppliers. These suppliers of metalcasting equipment, systems, materials and supplies invite you to visit their websites to find out more about the products and services they offer. These companies can help provide some of the most innovative approaches to improving metalcasting efficiency and help you make better, more cost-efficient Adj. 1. cost-efficient - productive relative to the cost cost-effective efficient - being effective without wasting time or effort or expense; "an efficient production manager"; "efficient engines save gas" castings. You can also find the information in this section one our website at www.moderncasting.com. Product Category Index (p. BG 8) With the wide range of raw materials, equipment and services needed to produce quality castings, the Product Category Index helps you locate the sources of all the products you need--from abrasive abrasive, material used to grind, smooth, cut, or polish another substance. Natural abrasives include sand, pumice, corundum, and ground quartz. Carborundum (silicon carbide) and alumina (aluminum oxide) are important synthetically produced abrasives. belts to zircon zircon Silicate mineral, zirconium silicate, ZrSiO4, the principal source of zirconium. Zircon is widespread as an accessory mineral in acid igneous rocks; it also occurs in metamorphic rocks and, fairly often, in detrital deposits. sand. Simply find the product in the alphabetical listing, and the corresponding page number will refer you to the page where you will find the sources of those products. Product Index (p. BG 13) Organized by product subheadings, this section allows you to immediately access the suppliers who can source the products you are seeking. (You'll you'll Contraction of you will. you'll you will or you shall you'll will also notice that advertisers are boldfaced, and that this section includes condensed con·dense v. con·densed, con·dens·ing, con·dens·es v.tr. 1. To reduce the volume or compass of. 2. To make more concise; abridge or shorten. 3. Physics a. advertising listings.) Manufacturers' Index (p. BG 122) Found here is the full contact information for firms supplying products and services to the metalcasting industry. From this inclusive listing of industry suppliers, you have at your fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. a comprehensive "rolodex" of suppliers, so you can request product information, ask pricing and service questions or receive troubleshooting Troubleshooting is a form of problem solving. It is the systematic search for the source of a problem so that it can be solved. Troubleshooting is often a process of elimination - eliminating potential causes of a problem. assistance. Metals Associations (p. BG 144) Because industry associations can be a much-valued resource in a variety of different ways, this section features a directory of the major metalcasting trade organizations. You will find full addresses, telephone and fax numbers, contact names and descriptions of services (including publications, seminars/courses, legislative services, etc.). Included within this section is contact information for U.S. state A U.S. state is any one of the fifty subnational entities of the United States, although four states use the official title "commonwealth". The separate state governments and the federal government share sovereignty, in that an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and metalcasting associations and a directory of international associations. Advertisers' Index (p. BG 147) The MODERN CASTING advertisers' index can expedite ex·pe·dite tr.v. ex·pe·dit·ed, ex·pe·dit·ing, ex·pe·dites 1. To speed up the progress of; accelerate. 2. your requests to suppliers so that you can obtain information in an even more timely fashion. By referring to this index, you can easily access the phone (including toll-free) and fax numbers and email addresses See Internet address. so you can immediately send along your requests. Also included for your information are the page numbers of the suppliers' advertisements. |
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