Trine Student Wins Metalcasting Scholarship
Dakota Carter, a sophomore from Fort Wayne, majoring in mechanical engineering at Trine University, recently won the Sinto-AFS Future Leadership of Metalcasting Scholarship.
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MSOE’s Grohmann Museum: Industry and Art Merge in First-of-its-Kind Exhibition
Opening Friday, January 16, “Patterns of Meaning: The Art of Industry by Cory Bonnet” features salvaged pieces that are monuments to industry created from glass, ceramics and other materials. These massive objects honor the innovators and workers that built our modern world.
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Trine Labs featured in national foundry video
"Spotlight on the Modern Metalcasting Industry" features footage from Trine University's metalcasting and foundry labs, located in the university's Bock center for innovation.
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Liberty Bell replica moved to Penn State Behrend’s AMIC building
In 1996, to mark the 100th anniversary of the American Foundry Society, the West Philadelphia Bronze Company cast a 2,097-pound replica of the bell. The replica — which is not cracked — now hangs in the lobby of the Advanced Manufacturing and Innovation Center at Penn State Behrend.
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131 manufacturing organizations ask the Biden White House to stop an unprecedented regulatory 'onslaught'
One hundred and thirty-one manufacturing organizations penned a letter to the White House pleading with President Biden's administration to curb the overwhelming amount of federal regulations costing manufacturing companies thousands at levels unseen from any prior administrations.
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Mercury Marine recognized by American Foundry Society
Mercury Marine has been recognized by the American Foundry Society (AFS) with the 2023 Plant Engineering Award for its implementation of Industry 4.0 data collection technologies and data analytics at its aluminum castings facility at the company’s world headquarters in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
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Metalcasting Congress Returns to Cleveland After Almost 50 Years
Metalcasting Congress returns to Cleveland, Ohio for the first time in nearly half of a century.
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Metal Casting Supply Solutions to be Examined at April Event in Cleveland
Casting designers and buyers will take their business plans to the next level at Metalcasting Congress 2023, April 25-27 in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Desktop Metal: Positive Foundry Industry Outlook And A Favorable Risk-Reward Profile
Modern Casting January 2023 edition has an excellent section on the outlook for the total US foundry Industry. A screen shot of page 34 shows very slight decline in facilities, but high growth in 2021 and estimated 2022 and 2023.
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Why the Auto Industry is Following Tesla’s Lead into Large-Scale Castings
New cars like the Tesla Model 3 from the company’s German plant, the Maserati Grecale SUV, and the next generation of Volvo EVs depart from convention by building the cars atop very large, very complex aluminum alloy castings.