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Member Spotlight:
John Krueger, Environmental and Safety Director

John Krueger, Environmental & Safety Director at Spuncast, was featured in Wisconsin Safety Council’s January Newsletter, Safety Zone (for more information click on the link http://wmc.informz.net/wmc/archives/archive_604512.html Safety has always been of paramount importance at Spuncast. While our safety record was good up through 2008, it was not where we believed it should be for a world class company. Our incident rate was above the national average for foundries and we knew it needed to be improved to maintain a healthy workforce. John was hired in early 2009 to spearhead the efforts to improve the safety of our workforce. Through his and a 6-Sigma team’s hard work, Spuncast’s incident rate is now well below the national average for all manufacturing businesses. Through constant vigilance, we intend to keep the downtrend going.
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Centrifugal Castings for Nuclear Applications - Coming Soon
Quality, process repeatability and cost efficiency are reasons that centrifugal castings have been used for nearly three decades for nuclear applications. Specifically, centrifugals have been used for pump covers for feed water pumps. ASME SA351 Grade 316L is often the material
of choice.

Alternative Energy – Solar
Spuncast was recently involved in providing stainless steel castings for a prototype solar engine. The application is part of a project to further expand the use of Concentrating Solar Power (CSP). The castings underwent stringent and severe testing and passed all requirements with ease. The future of alternative energy, particularly CSP, holds a lot of promise for centrifugal castings. There are a variety of possible applications in Sterling Engines and in molten salt pump/storage facilities. The wide array of alloys makes centrifugal casting a good potential source of specialty materials.  

 

Spuncast’s Award-winning tent at Relay for Life, August 2009

Once again, Spuncast participated in the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life. This year the team, under the leadership of Cathy Ihde, raised $3562. This amount was a huge increase over last year’s. Spuncast’s efforts were in memory of co-workers Bob Fank and Tom Lund.

 

Spuncast provides Advanced Steel Casting Alloy for the Navy...

ELECTRONIC CASTING DESIGN TOOLS

Steel Founders Society of America is developing web-based casting design studies (www.sfsa.org/tutorials) for DoD, OEM’s and academia. One of the tutorials describes the application of advanced steel casting alloy technology for Navy submarines to increase fleet readiness and provide more responsive, reliable combat power to support expeditionary and contingency operations at a lower cost.

US Navy submarines use on-demand hydraulic pressure for system operations throughout the boat, supplied by hydraulic accumulators, which have to contain high pressure spikes for more than half a million cycles without leaks or failure through the life of the submarine.

Spuncast, Inc. of Watertown, WI centrifugally casts the cylinder barrels (16” diameter and 30” length) for the accumulators. By shifting from a dual layer alloy design to a duplex stainless steel alloy, the casting is produced in a single pour, delivering improved strength, toughness, corrosion-resistance, and wearlife while eliminating costly hard-chrome plating.

With the duplex stainless steel accumulator the Navy submarine force increases on-station time, reduces maintenance time and costs, eliminates the environmental hazards and costs of electro-chrome plating.

The SFSA web-based casting design study (www.sfsa.org/tutorials) tells the story to a wide audience (DoD, OEM’s and academia) of how the application of advanced steel casting alloy technology helps Navy submarines increase fleet readiness and provide more responsive, more reliable combat power to support expeditionary and contingency operations at a lower cost.

This project is part of The American Metalcasting Consortium, managed by the Advanced Technology Institute, and sponsored by the Defense Supply Center Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, and the Defense Logistics Agency, Fort Belvoir, VA.

For more information or questions concerning AMC, contact Vickie Doby at ATI via email: doby@aticorp.org