Scott brings 27 years of experience from Lodge Cast Iron in Tennessee—an Inductotherm customer—where he served as Plant Manager before advancing to Director of Foundry Operations, retiring in 2024. This experience provided Scott with a wealth of information regarding the inner workings of a foundry and makes him a prime candidate to pass on knowledge to Inductotherm’s customers. “After retiring from a long…

The value of the Scottish Steel sector in relation to the rest of the world and also the UK specifically has been analysed by researchers from WMG, University of Warwick, who have found investment could be the key to reviving the industry into a thriving industry. Steel has played an important part of Scotland’s economy since 1751. The nation’s industrial heritage has relied upon steel, which has been a key…

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India’s growing appetite for metal has increased the demand of scrap metal but that is not where the problem lies. The problem is retrieving the scrap metal. Many of these scrap metals are remains of weapons containing hazardous materials and toxic gases. In 2004, while melting the scrap metals in a Delhi factory, ten workers died due to blast. Later, it was found out that some of the scrap metals were…

Minprom quoted Ukrainian Association of recyclable metals reports scrap procurement will decrease in 2009 by 6.3% to 14.1% to 5.5 million tonnes Mr Valentin Kulichenko president of Association said “We can cover domestic demand drop with export increase. I hope that we will be able to provide 5.5 million tonnes to 6 million tonnes of scrap taking into account as domestic demand as export. At the same time…

A US report evaluates numerous factors to determine how western states can source 33% of their electricity from new renewable energy resources. Increasing demand for renewable energy increases costs, as less economically attractive resources are required to meet higher targets, the report concludes. Wind energy is found to be the largest contributor to meeting regional renewable energy demand when only…

SeaEnergy PLC has secured a grant of £30,000 for a feasibility study into the service opportunities available in the expanding offshore renewable energy industry. The grant was given under the Scottish Enterprise Innovation Support Scheme and is funded by the European Regional Development Fund. SeaEnergy has conducted a preliminary review of service opportunities in the offshore renewable energy industry.…

„Industrialization in Die casting“ Frech shows how technology allows target scaling from the first day of engineering Dr. Alexander Baesgen, Head of Tooling Technology, Oskar Frech GmbH & Co. KG www.frech.com “Buying the benefit – an optimized operator model of contract core production” Laempe Mössner Sinto shows how to combine the best of technology and servitization Rudolf Wintgens, Managing Director…

On the behalf of the Foundry Planet Team, we would like to wish everyone a happy holidays and a great start into the New Year of 2016! We look forward to seeing you soon in January at the EUROGUSS 2016 in Nuremberg Germany or the IFEX in Coimbatore India. Best Wishes, Your Foundry Planet Team