Alfred Spada, of the Schaumburg, Ill.-based American
Foundry Society Marketing Division, sees steady-to-strong growth throughout the different segments of the
foundry business.
Royer
Foundry Systems, PO Box 1859, Kingston, PA, 18704 tel: 570/331-3479 fax:
Tim Strelitz, with California Metal-X, a Los Angeles-based brass and copper
foundry, is more succinct when he says that the biggest problems confronting the nonferrous
foundry business are the "excessive costs [and] outrageous lawsuits that manufacturers have to deal with."
Huff, FACT, Three Rivers, Michigan John McCutcheon, Neenah
Foundry Company, Neenah, Wisconsin Jeff Bianco, Grede Foundries Iron Mountain
Foundry, Kingsford, Michigan Godfrey Sergeant, Grede Foundries New Castle
Foundry, New Castle, Indiana Mary Wolfe, Deeter
Foundry, Lincoln, Nebraska
Dependable
Foundry Equip Co, 12505 S W Herman Rd, PO Box 3210, Tualatin, OR, 97082-3210 tel: 503/692-5552 fax: 503/692-4477
Christopher Misterek
Foundry Metallurgical Engineer John Deere
FoundryThis in turn can send the
foundry into the cash trap spiral where money goes into the business in the form of capital investment and cannot be recovered in the form of increased profits.
This reality suggests that a
foundry sales effort focused on volume growth is wrongheaded.
While Benton
Foundry didn't officially come into existence until 1958, a
foundry has been on its property since the 19th century.
The company's in-house automation staff utilizes the latest engineering and software technology to lead you through a design, simulation and implementation process Of determining what level of core automation is right for your
foundry. --Laempe + Reich Ph: 205/655-2121 * Fax: 205/655-2123 www.laempe.com
Gaylord
Foundry Equipment Inc, PC Box 1863, Independence, MO, 64055-0863
As North American
foundry officials who have attended the show can attest to, it is nearly impossible to encompass the entire seven-building GIFA event.
* the Casting Emission Reduction Program (CERP) has been testing HAP emissions from
foundry products and processes for the past five years (see sidebar above);
Exhibit categories include
foundry machinery and plant construction, casting machinery and equipment, melting processes, and molding and coremaking.
As the president of EBAA Iron Sales, Inc., an iron
foundry based in Eastland, Texas, Jim Keffer is concerned about foreign competition and how his
foundry will adapt to domestic quality standards such as the MACT standards regulating I-TAP emissions from iron and steel foundries.