Financial Chronicle reported that Essar Steel is planning to acquire coking coal mines in Africa or Australia to help the company that has few captive sources of crucial raw materials integrate backward to protect its profit margins. Mr Dilip Oommen MD and CEO of Essar Steel told Financial Chronicle that “Given the uncertainty on mining, it is important to secure our raw material supply. Like other players…

Today, the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE) celebrates the reopening of the W. David Kingery Ceramics and Glass Laboratory - formerly known as the MIT Glass Lab - and the Merton C. Flemings Materials Processing Laboratory, home to MIT’s forge and foundry. Forge, foundry, and glassblowing activities were part of the department's Course 3 curriculum at MIT’s founding. For decades, MIT…

A shuttered foundry on the banks of the New River closed five years ago, but the state’s attempt to reclaim $600,000 in taxpayer funds contributed to the failed project drags on. The Virginia Economic Development Partnership and Grede Radford LLC have so far been unable to resolve the standoff, which has led to sharp exchanges — one lawyer called another a “moron” — and periods in which opposing sides…

New Delhi - The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board of India, or AERB, on Thursday confirmed that the radioactive scrap metal that found its way into buttons installed in Otis Elevator Co. lifts in France had been traced to a foundry in Maharashtra. At least four Indian firms were involved in the manufacture of the components, an official said, but it was still unclear where the contaminated scrap originated.…

Warsaw - Polish security officials are searching for seven lead containers holding radioactive cobalt which disappeared from a factory, a spokesman for the national nuclear agency (PAA) said Wednesday. The containers had been discovered to be missing from a bankrupt and disused iron foundry in the east of the country during stocktaking in early November, Stanislaw Latek said. The cobalt could endanger…

According to a report by news magazine Der Spiegel German authorities have discovered more than 150 tonnes of radioactive metal imported from foundries in India in 12 federal states. According to the newsweekly, the material bearing traces of Cobalt-60 came from three Indian foundries. Citing an internal memo from the federal environment ministry, the magazine reported that some 5 tonnes of high grade steel…

“With the appointment of Rafael Rivera, we are gaining the services of an experienced expert who has in-depth market knowledge and extensive expertise in the areas of sales and personnel management,” says Leonardo Deambrosi, Head of Latin America at CREMER ERZKONTOR. “His knowledge will play a key role in the expansion of our raw materials trade and in particular the further development of trade in chemical…

July 2021 Forty years of know-how and the application of the most advanced technological solutions in scrap processing and sorting allow Raffmetal to present to the market a revolutionary range of primary grade aluminium alloys from recycling in continuous casting with performances equal to aluminium alloys produced from bauxite. In 2018 began the construction of the new production plant, dedicated to the…

CASTFAST was spun out of specialist foundry Römheld & Moelle at the end of last year, after successfully building a technology platform around the foundry’s 3D sand printing operation. The idea: to radically transform and improve the way castings are purchased, by combining 3D sand printing (fast molding entirely without pattern) and process digitization to allow casting buyers to easily procure…

Simpson Technologies (Deutschland) GmbH is very pleased to announce that, as of October 1st 2019, Mr. Rainer Sonnemann has joined the company as Manager of Sales. Mr. Sonnemann is primarily responsible for supporting and selling the full range of Simpson Technologies’ product lines in the European market. Throughout his career, Mr. Sonnemann has significant experience in the worldwide foundry industry and…