Foundry & Casting News

News from Abroad: Safer Technologies and Carbon Cutting
Today’s News from Abroad installment highlights more carbon-cutting trends from the steel industry, ranging from robots in the cast house to ...
Vacuum Induction Melting Solution from Upper NY
A custom-built vacuum induction melting (VIM) equipment is set to expand thermal processing for a manufacturer, whose operations already has two VIM ...
Manufacturer To Receive EB Furnace for Large-Ingot Casting
A North America-based company is set to receive a four-gun electron beam hearth melting furnace from their industry partner of 3 ...
US Army Enlists Metallus for Munitions Expansion
Metallus, formerly known as TimkenSteel and a leader in high-quality specialty metals, manufactured components, and supply chain solutions, announced that the ...
Box Furnace Increases Tempering Capabilities for Castings Company
Tom Schulz Sales Manager L&L Special Furnace Source: L&L An investment castings manufacturer's heat treat department received a large floor-standing box ...
Skuld Expanding by Opening New Foundry & Manufacturing Facility
Skuld LLC announced that they had purchased the site belonging to the former Champion Foundry in Piqua, Ohio, a gray and ...
Second HIP Contracted For Wallwork
Bringing forward plans by two years, Wallwork Group have signed for a second hot isostatic press. Following hot on the heels ...
ECOACERO Expands Rebar Potential with New Mill
ECOACERO, an ESTRELLA Group company, has placed an order for a new rebar mill with a heat treater with North American ...
North American Heat Treater Welcomes New Ownership
Effective November 30, 2023, Joe A. Powell has sold his remaining shares in Akron Steel Treating Company, his family's commercial heat ...
Foundry Expands 3D Printing Capabilities
A Louisiana-based foundry — a supplier of iron, stainless, and specialty alloy castings for paper/pulp, energy, mining, and petrochemical customers — ...
Fringe Friday: Desirability of the Deoxidation of Ductile Base Iron
What is deoxidation and how can it be useful for energy savings? In fact, can the process really save money and improve the ...
Fringe Friday: Nippon Steel Corporation To Acquire U. S. Steel
Sometimes our editors find items that are not exactly "heat treat" but do deal with interesting developments in one of our ...
Jet Engine Manufacturer Modernizes with Updated Casting Furnace
Sławomir Tomaszewski Vacuum Melting Team Director SECO/WARWICK Source: LinkedIn One of the world's largest producers of jet engines has modernized their ...
News from Abroad: Furnace Updates and Lowered Emissions
Heat Treat Today is partnering with two international publications: heat processing, a Vulkan-Verlag GmbH publication that serves mostly the European and ...
Double Reduction Mill Offers Sustainable Solutions for Tinplate Company
A tinplate company will receive a new order for a tinplate coating line (TCL) and tinplate double reduction mill (TDRM) from ...
Charlotte Pipe and Foundry Opens New Site in North Carolina
A 122-year-old cast-iron pipe maker started operating its $460-million ferrous foundry in North Carolina, and celebrated its role in "revitalizing manufacturing ...
GKN Aerospace Expands with 2 New AM Systems
GKN Aerospace has expanded its capabilities with additive manufacturing (AM) machines, accelerating its industrialization of sustainable aero engine solutions. This new ...
Al Reverb Furnace Fabrication Begins at Al Extrusion Plant
A multinational aluminum producer ordered a new 100,000 lb. capacity tilt melting aluminum furnace for one of their regional aluminum extrusion ...
Victaulic Adds Foundry and Manufacturing Company
Rick Bucher President and CEO at Victaulic Source: LinkedIn On March 30, 2023, Victaulic, a manufacturer of mechanical pipe joining, fire ...
NAS Announces Expansion, New Jobs in Kentucky
North American Stainless (NAS), a stainless steel producer in the United States, will proceed with a $244 million expansion to its ...
Burner Technology Enhances thyssenkrupp’s Annealing Plant
Dr.-Ing. Joachim G. Wünning President WS Wärmeprozesstechnik GmbH thyssenkrupp Steel, a steel manufacturer with North American locations, recently inaugurated its newest ...
Fringe Friday: ArcelorMittal Dofasco Lowers Carbon Footprint
Sometimes our editors find items that are not exactly "heat treat" but do deal with interesting developments in one of our ...
Fringe Friday: GreenIron Furnaces To Recycle Oxidized Metals
Sometimes our editors find items that are not exactly "heat treat" but do deal with interesting developments in one of our ...
Fringe Friday: Foundry 4.0
Sometimes our editors find items that are not exactly "heat treat" but do deal with interesting developments in one of our ...
6 Heat Treat Events From Around the Globe
Today, we look to our European information partner, heatprocessing, to explore what international tradeshows you can look forward to, such as ...
Aerospace Castings Manufacturer Orders Large Capacity Casting Furnace
Michael Lister Director of Sales - North America Consarc Corporation The Doncasters Group recently ordered a vacuum furnace for their Doncasters ...
Smart Materials, Magnesium Alloys Manufacturer Breaks Ground on Expanded Foundry
A manufacturer of smart materials for the oil and gas industry and advanced magnesium alloys for lightweighting recently broke ground on ...
Metals Manufacturer Announces Sale of Heat Treating Facilities, Casting Business
A global metals manufacturer recently announced sale agreements of its divisions to two buyers: two non-core forging facilities to a middle-market ...
Major U.S. Steelmaker to Invest in Endless Casting & Rolling Technology
A U.S. integrated steel producer headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, recently announced that it will invest more than $1 billion to construct ...
Heat Treat Line Expanded at Aerospace Aluminum Castings Facility
A New Hampshire-based manufacturer of sophisticated aluminum investment castings for predominantly aerospace applications recently expanded its capabilities with two electric drop ...
Iron Foundry Expanding into Aluminum at Ohio Facility
  Source: Business Journal Daily   An iron casting foundry located in Hubbard, Ohio, is expanding into aluminum casting with an ...
Aluminum Casting Facility Opens To Supply Jaguar Land Rover
An international automotive technology supplier headquartered in Canada recently opened a 225,000-square foot aluminum casting facility in Telford, England, which will supply ...
Four Vacuum Heat Treat Systems Shipped to Casting Company
Four vacuum furnaces were recently shipped to a major casting company in Arizona, three with a free work area of 54" W ...
Automotive Supplier Expands in Alabama with Aluminum Casting Facility
A global automotive supplier recently announced an expansion of its operations at its Kamtek facility in Birmingham, Alabama. Magna International reported that ...
Japan-Based Foundry Builds First U.S. Manufacturing Facility
Global manufacturer of alloy castings for the automotive and industrial sectors, Kimura Foundry America, has announced plans to locate its first U.S.-based ...
EJ Americas Begins Construction on New Iron Foundry
  EJ Americas, a global organization producing and distributing iron castings for municipal and infrastructure programs, broke ground in July for ...
Melting Furnaces and Twin Chamber Furnace to be Installed
Significant milestones have been obtained with the construction and installation of two 70 mt melting furnaces and the installation of a ...
Vacuum Assisted High Pressure Die Casting Technology Used in Manufacturing
  Source: La Metallurgia Italiana - Primary aluminum-silicon-magnesium alloys are by far the most widely used type in the manufacturing of ...
Brazilian Steel Producer Purchased Continuous Slab Caster
A two-strand continuous slab caster supplied by Primetals Technologies has gone on stream at Companhia Siderúrgica do Pecém (CSP), a Brazilian ...
Foundry Sector’s Expectations
  Source:  Foundry Gate "India is the third largest manufacturer of metal castings globally, producing approx 10 million tonnes of castings ...
Saudi Aramco Signs to Set Up High-End Forging & Casting Manufacturing Facility
Saudi Aramco has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with GE (NYSE: GE) and Cividale SpA of Italy to build the ...
Magna Announces New Aluminum Casting Facility in the UK
Magna International Inc. today announced it will build a new world-class aluminum casting facility in Telford, United Kingdom, to support Jaguar ...
Schuler Acquires Leading Die Manufacturer AWEBA
Schuler AG, the market leader in forming equipment, is to take over the die construction specialist AWEBA and thus greatly expand ...
Hitachi Metals Automotive Components to Be Division of Waupaca Foundry
Waupaca Foundry Inc., Waupaca, Wisconsin, announced it will merge with Hitachi Metals Automotive Components USA LLC (HMAC). The merger is part ...


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