General Motors will push 45 trucks per hour through its new $600 million paint shop. The first "sellable" truck to come through General Motors' $600 million paint shop was on display during a news conference on Wednesday, March 16. "What this shop allows us to do is really raise our game on a lot of capacities," said Jeff Lamarche, plant manager at Flint Assembly. That includes 45 percent more production in…

Hitachi Ltd. has opened a train manufacturing plant in Miami, its first in the United States, to build Metrorail vehicles for the area. Hitachi Rail USA will build 136 cars at the factory to replace Miami-Dade County’s Metrorail fleet beginning this month, the Tokyo-based company said in a statement Thursday. The first new vehicles are scheduled go into service in late 2017, Hitachi said. The maker of…

China, the world's largest automotive market, may see the entry of Indian component supplier Jaya Hind Industries. This entry will happen through its joint venture with French casting component maker Montupet. Jaya Hind Montupet is in talks for a "big order" of cylinder heads from a global OEM, which prefers the order to be supplied from a base in China. "They want a new cylinder head to be produced in…

India is the third largest manufacturer of metal castings globally, producing approx 10 million tonnes of castings in various metals The Institute of Indian Foundrymen (IIF) is the apex industry body promoting the competitiveness of India's foundry industry. There are about 5,000 foundries in India largely in the MSME category. The foundry or metal casting industry is a key component feeder for the various…

New plant integrated into existing works Hebei Puyang Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. (Puyang Steel), China, has issued to SMS group (www.sms-group.com) the Final Acceptance Certificate (FAC) for the single-strand slab caster commissioned in 2015. SMS group met the customer’s high expectations by cooperating extremely successfully with Puyang Steel and achieving fast commissioning and a steep run-up curve of the…

In laboratory tests, the physical basics for a controlled active air-cooling in casting processes are investigated and the reduction of cooling time compared to the conventional cooling of castings in sand molds has been demonstrated. Based on the experiments a numerical simulation tool (MAGMA) is extended by controlled active air cooling and is compared to the experimental results. In addition, the…

Ausgezeichnete Türgriffe Der Automobilzulieferer Huf Hülsbeck & Fürst erhält den General Motors Supplier of the Year Award 2015 für seine herausragenden Leistungen im Produktsegment „Türgriffe“. „Wir begleiten den Automobilhersteller General Motors, zu dem auch die Marken Opel und Vauxhall gehören, jetzt seit über 60 Jahren. Die Auszeichnung sehen wir als Bestätigung für unseren großen Einsatz – das macht…

Fata Aluminum recently installed a green sand regeneration plant at the Tupy factory in Saltillo, a world leader in cast iron castings. As is known, the thermal/mechanical regeneration of foundry sand, especially for cast iron foundries which operate with green sand plants, makes it possible to reduce the purchase of new sand. This reduces the transport of sand and/or scraps from and to the foundry. Aside…

Focus on lightweight construction ties in with COMPOSITES EUROPE 2016 The outlook is great for the 11th ALUMINIUM World Trade Fair scheduled to take place in Düsseldorf from 29 November to 1 December 2016. With eight months still to go before the start of the event, more than 700 exhibitors have already registered for the world’s largest industry meeting. That figure indicates that ALUMINIUM is on track to…