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How have Wheelabrator customers adapted to a year like no other?

LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 20, 2021) — For 15 to 20 years, artist Jeremy Colbert sculpted a successful career for himself in ceramics and metalworking. But it would take a series of visions, perchance dreams, to bring him to one subject matter of his work — his heritage. “I was very cautious on using Native American content in my artwork,” Colbert said. “… I was taking a nap. I woke up from that nap because I had a vision, and I literally got up, rolled over, drew something out on a little...

09. April 2021 Fondarex - Application Study The Fondarex team offers complete studies in order to ensure that its die casting customers get the right solutions.   The vacuum channel is the connection between the cavity and the vacuum device. It is important to calculate in order to find the right ratio between the vacuum gate and the vacuum channel. Additionally, the geometry of the vacuum channel will have to be adapted to airflow dynamics and overflow volume. To perform a vacuum...

Controlling formaldehyde emissions with new SEMCO FF water-based coatings Environmental sustainability is high on everyone’s agenda. As a company, Foseco is committed to setting the benchmark for sustainability in the foundry industry, complying with new, more stringent and revised regulations – and supporting our customers to do the same.   The new SEMCO FF range of water-based coatings clearly demonstrates this commitment. Designed to reduce evolved formaldehyde emissions, these...

16. April 2021 BIOSTABLE AND LABEL-FREE - THE NEW TRENNEX PRODUCTS Geiger + Co. Schmierstoff-Chemie GmbH has been known as an innovative developer of contemporary and sustainable fluids for the die cast industry for over 60 years. For some years now, we have committed ourselves to only introducing new products to the market that are not labeled as dangerous according to CLP regulations, provided that this is technically and commercially feasible. In the meantime, a large number of th...

28. April 2021 O.M.LER srl offers innovative decoring solutions The Italian company O.M.LER srl is renowned worldwide for decoring solutions for the foundry industry, in particular for gravity, low pressure and lost wax foundries. In partnership with overseas distributors and agents, and thanks to the expertise of its technical and sales team, O.M.LER markets and sells the pneumatic decoring hammers RVC70 and AF1470. Each is available in three different versions, according to the c...

MAGMASOFT® Webinar: How to analyse and solve casting defects in MAGMASOFT® HPDC Essentially for the High Pressure Die Casting process (HPDC), the castings have to co-exist better with imperfections and anomalies compared to the other casting process. However quality requirement and complexity of HPDC parts has been dramatically increased over the years, imposing big challenges for HPDC foundries to reach high quality standard in a production process with a high number of influencing process ...

03. March 2021 Thomas Fritsch Chief Editor abk PRESSENBAU UND AUTOMATION has the competent answer and the right machine at hand "There are die-cast parts that must not be broken for further use during deburring, but rather require a clean full cut with the help of a specially manufactured deburring press," explains DYNACST Germany boss Armin Beck in an interview. The current challenge concerns a magnesium die-cast part that will later be used as the rear lock for a luxury Bavarian ve...

26. March 2021 How have Wheelabrator customers adapted to a year like no other? The last year has challenged many businesses but it has offered opportunities too, not least the opportunity to change how we all do things. We talk to Erich Brunner, President at Wheelabrator, about the impact the pandemic has had on customer industries across the globe, how customers have responded and adapted, and how Wheelabrator has supported them. Erich, thank you for joining us today. To kick off, ...

01. April 2021 A report by Yang Linlong, Xu Leilei (Suzhou Mingzhi Technology Co., Ltd.). Abstract: To introduce the development method, performance values and results newest generation of the integrated high-efficiency heater for the core machines, as well as a finite element analysis method to improve the performance of the heater, with an integrated design concept. The results show that significant results have been achieved in improving the curing efficiency of the core making m...