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When you are in the casting design process, you go to great lengths to make sure the resulting casting meets your needs. You spend time making sure the material selection meets your strength a

When you are looking into the tooling required to produce your casting, you will find a variety of materials are available to use in the construction of your pattern and core boxes.

Have you ever used a cost-per-pound analysis to determine the cost and competitiveness of your castings and foundry sources?

It’s often misunderstood what cost factors are owned by the OEM versus those owned by the foundry.