Truscanian Foundries, the Black Country-based metal castings business, has been sold to W Lucy & Co. The company, which was founded in 1982, will continue to trade from its Oldbury site on St Martins Industrial Estate with the existing management team remaining in place. Hawkins Hatton, a niche corporate law firm, acted as lead adviser to the principle shareholders of Truscanian Foundries, Graham Shore and…

Though riders won’t see them for a few more months, the first of Amtrak's incoming 70 high-tech trains, built by Siemens, rolled off the assembly line and is ready to begin testing. “Our project goal was to make the supply chain as American as possible,” says Siemens Rail Systems president Michael Cahill of the $466 million initiative. Siemens is building parts in Norwood, Ohio, Alpharetta, Georgia and…

most established industry players at risk and forcing companies to seek alternative funding sources. Austerity measures to reduce debt in the EU has crimped construction and manufacturing in the region, battering steel demand. Now, the financial sector’s reluctance to lend to the steel industry is threatening billions of euros of existing loans, as well as future funding, sources said this week. Stemcor,…

Aciéries Hachette & Driout, the French company based in St. Dizier, has ordered a flexible medium-frequency furnace plant from OTTO JUNKER for its alloyed steel melting operations. Our solution will incorporate DUO-CONTROL technology, relying on one 4-tonne and one 8-tonne coreless furnace. Power is to be supplied via a converter system rated for a 400 - 500 Hz operating frequency range. The nominal energy…

The production of high-stress cast parts made from cast iron with nodular graphite is a particular challenge for foundries, as high demands, amongst other things, are made on the inoculation technique used and the inoculants. The use of pure charge materials in the burden is essential for successful cast part production. The pig iron used, the scrap steel or returns may not contain any disruptive…

Ferrari will limit sales of its high-performance street cars this year to protect the brand's aura of exclusivity, Chairman Luca Montezemolo said Wednesday. Wealthy people around the world are snapping up Ferrari's and the company is worried the brand might lose its appeal as a symbol of rarefied luxury. As a result, it will scale back production to below 7,000 units this year, compared with 7,318 last…

Since 1993 RölfsPartner (back then named intra-Unternehmensberatung before the fusion) joins the German Foundry Day with its own exhibition stand year after year. Also this year we attended in Fellbach again, where the industry event took place on the topic “Solid and high-tech – casting solutions from Germany” on the 25th and 26th April 2013. The German Foundry Day organised by the vdg (German Association…

The use of magnesium additions in ductile cast irons Elkem introduces “Topseed® cover alloy” - another big step forward in reducing magnesium addition and lowering production costs in ductile iron foundries. The use of magnesium ferrosilicon (MgFeSi) to nodularise cast irons is a significant cost for ductile iron foundries. This is why Elkem has developed Topseed® as a new cover alloy to maximise the…

Schaumburg, Ill. The American Foundry Society (AFS) and its publication Metal Casting Design & Purchasing magazine announced O’Fallon Casting, O’Fallon, Mo., as the winner of the 2013 Casting Competition. The metalcaster won with its electronics housing produced for the defense industry. The component’s elegant design and incredible detail exemplifies the capabilities of the investment casting process. The…

Scott L. Holman's sons – Scott, Max and Jason – are carrying on a tradition and helping Michigan State University along the way. The family patriarch soldered a relationship with Michigan State University and now-deceased Henry Blosser, the founding director of MSU's cyclotron facility. The elder Holman, with ties to a Bay City foundry, provided equipment back in the '70s that accelerated beams carrying…