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Department: SUPPLY CASTINGS

FOCUS

This area is specifically designed for suppliers of castings, including suppliers of patterns & tooling and post-finishing operations. It will also provide useful information for other professionals in industries that use cast metal parts.

Using the CastingTrade FOUNDRY GUIDE as a marketing tool
The FOUNDRY GUIDE at CastingTrade.com now consists of TWO parts! As before, we will continue to provide a "FOUNDRY PROFILES" database where foundries worldwide can list their basic capabilities FREE. IN ADDITION, in response to urgent requests from castings buyers, we are introducing a separate "FULL FOUNDRY SURVEYS" database where paying listers can register extremely in-depth responses to RFI questions posed by end-users from a range of major casting end-user industries.

Use these procurement tools at CastingTrade.com:
INPUT SUPPLIER GUIDE	TOOLING GUIDE	FINISH'G GUIDE
These networking tools are designed primarily to help you gain fast, easy access to the suppliers who can best fulfill your needs!

Other Feature Articles

Tune in to buyer/specifier views about the critical role of patterns/tooling

Reports from Dallas: Saving Big Dollars on ISO and Staying on top of giga-data

Your Opinion Counts!

Forum: Imports are Killing Us! -- There isn't a day that goes by that some U.S. metalcaster doesn't lose a big customer to China or one of the other emerging casting powers. Not surprisingly, more and more domestic casting operations are closing their doors. It seems like a weekly phenomenon now, and some of the big names involved are shocking.

Forum: Changes in Global Castings Business -- Did the sharp decrease in military production in the former Soviet Union and other East Bloc countries radically alter the landscape of world casting production in the '90s ?

Also of interest to
CASTINGS SUPPLIERS

SPECIAL FEATURE
Prof. John Campbell:
"Ten Rules for
Good Castings"

John Campbell's "Ten Rules for Good Castings" will be published on the CastingTrade.com website during July and August. These rules -- together with Prof. Campbell's definitive text, "CASTINGS" -- are essential tools for metal casting professionals.

NEW SECTION:
FOUNDRY OPERATIONS

Check posted inquiries

Departments

Interview: How Intermet buys diecastings

End-User Links

Links to Tier One Automotive Suppliers

Links to VALVE manufacturers

Links to pump manufacturers

What do buyers want?

"For us, the most important thing is to see specific descriptions of the actual molding lines. For other buyers, who may have less familiarity with casting processes, the key facts are characteristics of the actual castings achievable. And for all types of buyers, it's very valuable to have pictures of typical castings the foundry produces."

Read a full account in the March, 2002, edition of the CastingLink newsletter.

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