Columns: 2021

A customer of AFS Corporate Member Waupaca Foundry (Marinette, Wisconsin) was looking for a stronger but lighter part while also reducing its cost.

Supply chain woes hang over the economy from COVID-induced shortages, ripples from the Suez Canal container ship blockage and U.S. West Coast port congestion.

This month we are devoting this column to a discussion of resources available to buyers and designers of castings.

3D sand printing produces sand mold components without any pattern or core box equipment. The process essentially makes sand molds without the middleman.