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While the turnaround in the foundry business has been significant, other factors are working in the United States' favor.

Foundry Design & Technology, PO Box 345, Moneta, VA, 24121-0345 tel: 540/297-8884

The problems for the nonferrous foundry business are, in many ways, a microcosm of the difficulty in maintaining a manufacturing base in the country.

Augmenting sand mold gating systems isn't the only way Deeter Foundry, Lincoln, Neb., solves inclusion defect problems.

Gaylord Foundry Equipment Inc, PO Box 1863, Independence, MO, 64055-0663 tel: 816/633-4575 fax: 816/252-8181

Scott Manager of Human Resources, Environment & Safety Eagle Foundry Co.

For example, when jobbing foundry manufacturing managers seek to alter the facility so that it will be more efficient, the result is more than mere cost reduction--the result is a dangerous violation of business strategy.

While there are any number of explanations for this longstanding plight of the foundry sales staff, non is more powerful--or more on target--than the reality of industry maturity.

When the current management took over Benton Foundry in 1975, they saw the need to diversity their customer base so that the firm could serve the widest possible spectrum of customers.

Gaylord Foundry Equipment offers combustion ladle healers for all standard ladle designs as well as custom designed units to meet more challenging applications Our designs meet current design codes and are furnished with various levels of controls for heating as well as retractory sintering With just a little dimensional information on your vessels, we can provide proposal drawings and cost estimates for your ladles, furnace or other heating needs.

Gaylord Foundry Equipment Inc, PO Box 1663, Independence, MO, 64055-0863

Royer Foundry Systems, PO Box 1889, Kingston, PA, 18704 tel: 570/331-3479 fax:

In addition, the World Foundry Organization Technical Forum was held for two days during GIFA with presentations focused on information technology for foundries and the various approaches being taken worldwide in simulation processes and process automation.

A considerable body of new emission information for a variety of foundry processes has been developed from research programs, and accumulated source test data from around the country.

Operating on its new four-year cycle, the 10th GIFA International Foundry Trade Fair, the world's largest exposition for the metalcasting industry, is being held June 16-21 at the Messe-Dusseldorf fairgrounds in Dusseldorf, Germany.