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Strategic Sourcing Plan Achieves Cost Reduction
01 Jun 2005
Hi-Finish Casting recently embarked on a structured purchasing programme to achieve cost reduction through innovation, process improvement and strategic sourcing. The RaPP Programme ensures that all activities in the purchasing function are focussed on business plan achievement. The programme was delivered with assistance from the SMMT Industry Forum and consultants from Indigo Procurement and has resulted in clear bottom line benefits.
Flexible Foundry 's Export Business Grows to 70%
01 Jun 2005
The Specialist S.G Iron foundry of Foundryfer SL located near Bilbao, Spain, has responded to the continuing movement of general engineering casting business from Western European foundries to low-cost regions by supplying more complex designs, and finished machined components. The foundry's export business now amounts to 70% of production.
Service Offers Plastic or Aluminium Components
01 Jun 2005
The parallels of processing rigid polyurethane and aluminium sand casting, including the many common skills (particularly in mould and pattern making), enables Norse Precision Castings of Bedford, to offer an almost unique service to design and production teams.
Heat Treatment Takes Account of Component Casting Morphology
01 Jun 2005
Two custom-built Carbolite furnaces with provision for protective atmospheres are providing Howmet Exeter Castings with precisely controlled facilities for heat-treating industrial gas turbine blades.
