May 2010 - Posts

• Listen to the man

  British Petroleum reportedly has 17,000 unsolicited offers of advice for fixing the catastrophic oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico ( and at least one impatient demand from on high ), but metalcasters will be intrigued to read the proposal from one of their Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 26, 2010 9:52 AM by REB | 0 Comments

• Hiding the news

  A few weeks back I learned about a new metalcasting venture , but I let the "news" take precedent. The fact that McWane Inc. is temporarily idling a foundry in Birmingham due to weak demand from the home-building sector seemed to be more important than Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 25, 2010 7:55 AM by REB | 0 Comments

• A significant return

  Intermet Corp. was a kind of emblem of what a unified metalcasting organization might be, in a more perfect world, and its demise with the financial collapse of 2008-2009 is rather emblematic of all that went wrong for investors that, in the early part Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 18, 2010 9:20 AM by REB | 0 Comments

• Details emerge

  The news earlier this year concerning the National Institute of Standards and Technologies' investment in an R&D program, to perfect metalcasting techniques for aluminum and magnesium structures that feature ceramic elements ("nanocomposites") in Read More... Posted Sunday, May 02, 2010 10:48 PM by REB | 0 Comments