Tag: Casting

What is a casting irregularity? What does it look like? Could you identify an irregularity in a valve casting upon first inspection? Surprisingly many cannot and irregularities are often overlooked, even by experienced technicians and engineers.

What is a casting irregularity? What does it look like? Could you identify an irregularity in a valve casting upon first inspection? Surprisingly many cannot and irregularities are often overlooked, even by experienced technicians and engineers. The documentation and imagery found in the MSS SP-55 standard is very important to the manufacturing process. Can you spot the irregularity in this cast valve?

Badger Alloys recently announced that Bret Kohler, CSSBB, has joined their team as Quality Engineer. The company’s skilled machinists provide machined castings for valve bodies, wear components, split castings, casings, and more.

Samuel, Son & Co. has announced the acquisition of Tucson, Arizona based CAID Industries Inc., moving Samuel into new market segments and adding advanced capabilities within its manufacturing group of companies.

The Special Topic of the April 2018 issue of Valve World Americas, available now, is Maintenance & Materials and one of the articles in this section is a Q&A style interview from the technical team at Micromazza and Usimontec.

Badger Alloys, Inc., a full-service castings manufacturer based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has announced that Mr. Michael Beining has joined the company as metallurgist.

The most common method of manufacturing valves, pumps and large components is done by using casting of metal by heating the scrap, raw metal, catalyst and pouring into a mold. All this is conducted at foundries. Written by Barry Messer & Gobind Khiani – Fluor Canada

Techni-Cast, a foundry offering alloying and casting services, has taken the next steps in making its infrastructure more efficient by cutting down on their energy bills by generating power onsite with a natural gas fuelled, co-generation system.

On Thursday July 16th, the second morning of the Valve World Americas Conference, there will be three educational workshops held concurrently from 10:30am to noon. The third workshop will focus on casting specifications and quality for different services.