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Problem: “As we launch new casting designs, the prototypes do well, either functionally or structurally.

Moving supply chains for cast metal components out of China is one thing. Reshoring them to North America is even better. 

Julia Scruton’s business card says she’s a metallurgist/project engineer for Baker Manufacturing Co. (Evansville, Wisconsin). But that’s just part of the story.

As a buyer of castings, you eventually will find yourself in the situation where you need to change foundries. In terms of the tooling required to make your castings, you will have two choices