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Articles in March, 2008 issue of Modern Casting

• AmeriCast sells remaining iron plant
• Nemak Canada plant, losing pricing war, closes
• Heat treatment for diecast parts supplies stronger castings
• Vision systems lend accuracy to robotics
• Question of the month
• Worth repeating
  by Vernon Boose
• Here's an idea … innovate
  by Alfred T. Spada
• Americast sells remaining iron plant Prospect Foundry
• Diecaster Contech receives new automotive business
• Nemak Canada plant, losing pricing war, closes
• Cookware caster lodge wins Design Award for iron, stainless steel skillet
• L A Aluminum wins a portion of two government contracts worth more than $400 million
• FSI Group ends operations at Ravenna Aluminum after failing to find a buyer
• AMT spends $3 million on facility in China
• Paper maker Metso's in-house metalcasting facility expansion inaugurated in Finland
• Sale of Foseco nearing completion
• Mexico: more than simply automotive castings
  by Patricio Gil
• Award maker R.S. Owens takes home prize for marketing, branding
• Ashland commits to India expansion
• Bremen Castings Inc., Bremen, Ind., has purchased Odyssey software by B&L Information Systems, Bridgman, Mich., to help implement its continuous improvements initiative and to focus on profitability
• Refractory maker Allied Mineral Products Inc., Columbus, Ohio, purchased 100% of AMETSA, its sales and manufacturing facility in Germiston, South Africa, at the end of 2007, according to a release issued by the company
• EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems, Munich, Germany, and TrumpfWerkzeugmaschinen GmbH + Co. KG, Ditzingen, Germany, announced they have signed an agreement with MCP Tooling Technology Ltd., Stone, U.K., and MCP-HEK Tooling GmbH in Germany
• ABP Induction, New Brunswick, N.J., and Pillar Induction, Brookfield, Wis., merged companies in early 2008 to establish a joint enterprise under the ABP name
• Mazak Corp
• Morgan Crucible, Windsor, Berkshire, U.K., has acquired two technical ceramics businesses, Certech and Carpenter Advanced Ceramics for $147 million
• Steelmaker Nucor Corp., Charlotte, N.C., announced it has signed a purchase agreement to acquire scrap recycler David J. Joseph Co
• Selas Heat Technology Co. LLC
• On Jan. 31, 2008, Simpson Technologies GmbH, Steinhausen, Switzerland, acquired the Disa sand laboratory testing equipment product line
• Synchro32
• Gudgeon Thermfire
• Quality certifications
• Modern Casting hires new advertising staff member
• Calendar of events
• Citation Corp
• Grede Foundries Inc
• Wescast Industries Inc
• Intermet Corp
• Patrice Chartrand, associate professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Ecole Polytechnique
• R.S. Owens
• Hugh Kind
• Synchro32
• Remet Corp
• Obituaries
• Silicosis crackdown: metalcasting facilities are targets of a new OSHA program intended to reduce hazards related to lung disease
• Nationwide I-9 campaign targets illegal workers
• Defense Bill includes FMLA expansion for military families
• Boosting production at Boose: the cross pollination of ideas between two different plants has turned the Boose companies into a jobbing juggernaut
  by Shea Gibbs
• Coming clean on chemicals: recent legislation requires metalcasters to report to the government on the chemicals in their plants
  by Shea Gibbs
• How sand expands
  by Jerry Thiel
• Heat treating, streamlined: as the costs associated with heat treating increase, heat treat companies rely on technology and service to compensate
  by Shannon Wetzel
• The hip, knee, elbow, toe and shoulder movement: cast titanium and cobalt-chromium joint components help hundreds of thousands of people move without pain and stiffness
  by Shannon Wetzel
• Simulation software
• Complete Foundry Solutions
• Foundry software package
• Automated casting finishing systems
• Intelligent Demand Response
• Innovation in shakeout
• Enterprise software solutions
• Rotary Medium Drum
• Automated pouring
• Dewaxing Autoclave Systems
• Flexible DeGate Cell
• Complete no-bake machinery & systems
• Heat treating services
• Custom and non-standard alloys
• See inside your designs with FLOW-3D®
• Aluminum melting furnace
• The future of process instructions
• Ceramic media
• CoreCenter
• Automatic Inoculation System
• Management information systems
• Precision borescopes
• Innovation as a battle cry
  by Shannon Wetzel
• Value-driven management
  by Matthew Jamison
• CastExpo attendee registration open, tickets for special events released
• IJMC includes study on modification of Al-Si alloys, endurance of ductile iron
• New MSDS forms available for magnesium alloy castings
• U.S. metalcasters to gather in Washington D.C. in April, corporate members buy one get one free
• Chapter meetings

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