American Foundry Society: Industry's 'Best' Components Recognized in North American Contest

DES PLAINES, Ill., May 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Fifteen component designs, including a "Casting of the Year," received industry-best recognition at the American Foundry Society's 106th annual Casting Congress/CastExpo this month in Kansas City, Mo. The award-winning firms in the 2002 Casting Contest are listed below:

2002 Casting of the Year

Receiving the highest "Casting of the Year" honor was Prototype Casting, Inc., Denver. Prototype Casting received the contest's highest recognition for a set of magnesium castings produced for the InFocus (Wellsville, Ore.) LP 140 notebook projector. Produced via the rubber/plaster mold process, the castings weigh just 0.22 lb and 0.05 lb and feature a typical wall thickness of 1.2 mm. The entire process (through post-machining) required only 20 days from the moment CAD files were transferred to the foundry.

2002 Best-in-Class Cast Components

- - Pacific Cast Technologies, Inc., Albany, Ore. -- thrust beam for the Boeing Delta IV satellite launch vehicle (titanium).

- - General Motors Powertrain, Defiance, Ohio and Saginaw, Mich. -- inline 5-cylinder block and inline 6-cylinder head for GM's new Vortec 3500 and 4200 light truck engine, respectively (aluminum).

- - Madison-Kipp Corp., Madison, Wis. -- fuel rail housing for passenger cars (aluminum).

- - Aarrowcast, Inc., Shawano, Wis. / Caterpillar Agricultural Products, Dekalb, Ill. -- track roller frame for Caterpillar tractor undercarriage (ductile iron).

- - Intermet Corp. Hannibal Plant, Hannibal, Mo. -- instrument panel frame for General Motors' luxury car platform (magnesium).

- - Wescast Industries, Inc.-Wingham Foundry, Wingham, Ontario. -- exhaust manifold for Mazda (silicon-molybdenum ductile iron).

- - Grede Foundries-Milwaukee Steel Div., Milwaukee -- articulating hinge for a logging application (1040 steel).

- - Citation-Texas Foundries, Lufkin, Texas -- lower control arm for DaimlerChrysler's 2500/3500 Dodge Ram (austempered ductile iron).

- - Consolidated Casting Corp., Hutchins, Texas -- tab ring liner for Honeywell gas-powered combustor assembly (nickel alloy).

Honorable Mention Cast Components

- - John Deere Foundry Waterloo, Waterloo, Iowa -- suspension lower control arm for the John Deere 8020 series tractor (austempered ductile iron).

- - Wellsville Foundry, Inc., Wellsville, Ohio -- heat exchanger component (gray iron).

- - Piad Precision Casting Corp., Greensburg, Pa. -- rack block and gear for fire truck pumps (aluminum-bronze).

- - Columbiana Foundry Co., Columbiana, Ohio - locomotive axle housing for Goodman Equipment (steel).

- - Irish Foundry & Manufacturing, Inc, Seattle -- water softener components (aluminum).

About the American Foundry Society (AFS)

Headquartered in Des Plaines, Ill., AFS is a not-for-profit technical and management society that has existed since 1896 to "provide and promote knowledge and services that strengthen the metalcasting industry for the ultimate benefit of its customers and society." The U.S. metalcasting industry is comprised of 2700 operations and 220,000 employees and contributes an estimated $27 billion annually to the U.S. economy

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