How a manufacturer, foundry, and 3D-printing expert achieved a casting conversion in just seven weeks.

Celestiq is a posh EV that’ll cost more than some houses, and deep inside, almost everything about it rides on a casting that  judges found irresistibly innovative.
 

New automation technologies that overcome labor shortages and offset higher U.S. wages are helping to close the labor-cost gap and reshore more manufacturing to the United States.

Serving one customer and only one—the U.S. Navy—the Virginia-based company is the only U.S. shipyard operating its own captive foundry.

Casting Source reviews the major casting supplier news from the last 12 months.

A fuel cell manufacturer had to act fast to convert an aluminum enclosure to a casting that would meet an international dust- and water-proofing standard. Luckily, they discovered a foundry where speed and high-quality prototyping are standard fare. 

Two Waupaca Foundry plants worked together to deliver a casting conversion for a compact utility tractor that shored up the supply chain for customer Amerequip.

A hypothetical aircraft part illustrates the substantial weight- and cost-saving opportunity through topological optimization.

A foundry and a machine shop teamed up to solve an 80-year-old part design mystery and creatively remake four castings for a power company’s historic, hydroelectric dam.

A young, entrepreneurial manufacturing team collaborated with a U.S. foundry to design a skinny, coreless and versatile casting that easily morphs into multiple iterations that safeguard precious electrical cables—hundreds of feet into the earth.