College Students to Take “Introduction to Metalcasting” Course Free Thanks to AFS-FEF Partnership
SCHAUMBURG, IL - The American Foundry Society (AFS), North America’s largest metalcasting professional organization, and the Foundry Education Foundation (FEF) today announced a new initiative that will permit full-time undergraduate college students with student memberships in AFS to take the AFS Institute’s “Introduction to Metalcasting” course at no cost.
Read moreRegistration Opens for CastExpo’16 and Metalcasting Congress
CastExpo’16 online registration is now open for exhibitors and attendees. CastExpo’16, to be held April 16-19 at the Minneapolis Convention Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, will be the largest metalcasting industry event of 2016, offering attendees access to the whole metalcasting supply chain…
Taurus 80 Opening Illinois Diecasting Operation
Taurus 80, Torino, Italy, is setting up its first U.S.-based facility, Taurus Die Casting LLC, in Rockford, Illinois.
The zinc die caster is hiring 37 full-time workers and will invest $6.4 million into a 44,000-sq.-ft. facility. Taurus 80 manufactures zinc diecast parts and employs 268…
Metal Technologies and Quimmco Agree to Form Joint Venture
Metal Technologies (MTI), an Auburn, Ind.-based metalcaster, and Quimmco, a Mexican industrial conglomerate, have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly own and operate Quimmco’s Blackhawk de México, S.A. de C.V. (Blackhawk), an iron foundry located in Santa Catarina, Nuevo Leon,…
OSHA Activates Injury Reporting Form on Website
On December 24, 2015, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced its long delayed online injury reporting form is now available to employers to satisfy the agency's recordkeeping rule (29 C.F.R. 1904.39) requiring employers to provide notification of fatalities…