MCDOUGALL TWP. – Full-time year-rounds jobs are coming within a couple years, thanks in part to a government grant. Tiffany Metal-Casting Ltd. plans to build a manufacturing plant and a fabrication facility at the Parry Sound Area Industrial Park after land is opened up and serviced there. On Tuesday Parry Sound-Muskoka MP Tony Clement, on behalf of the minister responsible for FedNor, announced the…

The South African foundry is at a crossroads according to the Scaw Metals Group. Not only is the industry suffering from the effects of a depressed market, but uncompetitive local raw material costs are threatening the future of the industry. According to the Industrial Structures and Skills in the Metals Beneficiation Sector of South Africa report, the number of foundries has dwindled over the past couple…

COIMBATORE: Alleging large-scale pollution from a foundry operating in their locality, residents of P K D Nagar at Peelamedu in the city submitted a petition to the district collector demanding appropriate action. "Exposure to foundry dust has caused severe respiratory problems to the residents and we are unable to cope with it," B Ramu, a resident said. Representing the issue to the district collector…

Kawasaki Robotics UK has formally acknowledged VA Technology Ltd as its premier OEM partner for its innovative use and development of robots for investment casting. Telford based VA Technology is celebrating 25 years in business developing into a world leading supplier of engineered solutions for the investment casting sector. The special relationship with Kawasaki fits in well with VA Tech’s philosophy of…

Tata Motors is ceasing its operations in the Spanish unit of its wholly owned subsidiary Tata Hispano Motors Carrocera SA and is looking for a buyer, Livemint states. The decision to sell the plant situated in Zaragoza comes in the wake of slowdown across Europe resulting in mounting losses and falling demand. Earlier BL had reported that the company, formerly Hispano Carrocera, has also received an offer…

The Steinway piano company has a new owner. This fall, the investment firm Paulson & Co. — led by billionaire John Paulson — spent about $500 million and bought all of Steinway & Sons, the venerated piano maker. The deal includes a foundry in Springfield, Ohio, where the Steinway pianos are born in fire. The O.S. Kelly Foundry has been making Steinway's plates since 1938. The plate is the cast-iron heart of…

AE-Group awards StrikoWestofen large maintenance and modernization contract for dosing furnaces Convincing products, convincing service: these benefits have now led to a major new contract for the StrikoWestofen Group (Gummersbach, Germany). Up to 2014, the renowned manufacturer of thermal processing technology will be in charge of the refractory lining and modernization of a total of 14 Westomat dosing…

Reducing turnaround time by half ESI Group, pioneer and worldleading solution provider in Virtual Prototyping for manufacturing industries, announces the release of ProCAST 2013.5 along with its dedicated user environment Visual-Cast 9.0, both designed to enable foundries to improve casting yield and quality thanks to more efficient processes and solvers. ProCAST, ESI’s casting simulation software, results…

Successful buyback from insolvency estate – Resumption of operations in the German Siegelsbach It looks good again to the ZPF: After serious management failures and the bankruptcies of three corporations of the holding company, the opinion leader in aluminium smelters begins operation again. The starting pistol for the restart on November 4th was fired by Norbert Feth, former sales manager of the ZPF Therm,…