How to make this year's buyer's 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 role on not only a metalcasting facility's costs, but also on the quality of the castings it produces. Realizing that metalcasters have relied on MODERN CASTING for more than 60 years to put them in touch with the firms that supply the products/equipment they need, MODERN CASTING has published an annual Buyer's Guide issue since 1963. This page highlights how to optimize optimize - optimisation the 2006 Buyer's Guide on a daily basis 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 issue. The Buyer's Guide has been broken down in the following manner to save you time as you search for suppliers of metalcasting equipment, materials and services. 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 immediately 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 bold-faced, 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, or "adlets.") Manufacturers' index (p. BG 126) 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--to request product information, ask pricing and service questions or to find assistance with 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. a particular problem. Metals Associations (p. BG 150) 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 number information, 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. The Buyer's Guide also includes a directory of international metalcasting associations. Advertisers' Index (p. BG 153) 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 your information in an even more timely fashion. By referring to the index on p. BG 153, you can easily access the phone (including toll-free) and fax numbers and email addresses See Internet address. so that you can immediately send along your requests. Also included for your information are the page numbers of the suppliers' advertisements. Reader Action Online (www.moderncasting.com/info) and Reader Action Card (p. BG 155) Here is the opportunity for you to find out more about the products and services seen in the display advertisements and Product Showcase items in this issue. Visit www.moderncasting.com/info for Reader Action Online to have your information requests processed and sent to the suppliers of choice immediately. Once the suppliers receive your request (via email) with your name and address, they will follow-up follow-up, n the process of monitoring the progress of a patient after a period of active treatment. follow-up subsequent. follow-up plan quickly with the requested information. You also may use the traditional Reader Action Card to request information. Three cards are included in this issue so that you can request information at any time during the next year (regular issues' response cards are effective only for 4 months). MC |
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