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MEETINGS
Ductile Iron Society 2004 Annual Meeting. June 23-25, 2004 at the Delta Montreal Hotel in Montreal Quebec Canada. Events include a tour of the QIT Sorel Plant of Rio Tinto.
BUSINESS
Ashland Casting Solutions enters into marketing agreement with Dakota International, Inc.
Dublin, Ohio (USA) – Ashland Casting Solutions, a business group of Ashland Specialty Chemical Company, announced today that it has entered into a global marketing agreement with Dakota International Inc. The agreement will allow Ashland Casting Solutions to market and distribute Dakota International’s complete line of Dakota scrubber systems to its worldwide metal casting customer base.
Dakota International, Inc., a leader in cold box scrubber technology in the North American metal casting industry, offers turnkey scrubber systems that trap and remove amine catalyst gases from the cold box core-making process. Dakota’s scrubber systems are compliant with the emissions, data logging and compliance confirmation aspects of the MACT standard for iron and steel foundries.
By adding Ashland’s patented ISOCYCLE® recycling program, which is designed specifically to handle spent scrubber solution containing amine catalysts, Casting Solutions can offer its customers a complete package for effectively managing the amine catalyst waste stream, and maintaining compliance with the industry’s environmental requirements.
Ashland’s HOODSTACK® emissions analysis program is also available for customers who require assistance in determining emission control and permit requirements.
“Our agreement with Dakota International is a strategic addition to our metal casting product offering that is designed to create value and provide integrated solutions to the casting industry,” states Mike Swartzlander, vice president, Ashland Specialty Chemical Company, and general manager, Ashland Casting Solutions. “The Dakota scrubbers line combined with our existing environmental services further strengthens our commitment to health, safety and environmental protections at our customers’ facilities as well as our own.”
About Ashland
Ashland Casting Solutions, a business group of Ashland Specialty Chemical Company, is a leader in supplying products, processes and technologies to the global metal casting marketplace. The group has operations (including licensees and joint ventures) in 21 countries.
Ashland Specialty Chemical Company, a division of Ashland Inc., is a leading, worldwide supplier of specialty chemicals serving industries including adhesives, automotive, composites, metal casting, merchant marine, paint, paper, plastics, watercraft and water treatment. Visit www.ashspec.com to learn more about these operations.
Ashland Inc. (NYSE:ASH) is a Fortune 500 transportation construction, chemicals and petroleum company providing products, services and customer solutions throughout the world. Find us at www.ashland.com.
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Ashland Purchases Metal Casting Technology from Blackhawk
DUBLIN, Ohio (USA) — Ashland Specialty Chemical Company, a division of Ashland Inc., has announced it has signed an agreement with Blackhawk Specialty Products in Rock Island, Ill., to purchase its metal casting technology over the next three years.
The purchase includes formulations and technology for core and mold release agents, green sand release agents and metal cleaners, which will be incorporated into the Casting Solutions business group. Blackhawk has been producing these mold release agents and metal cleaners under contract for Ashland since 1992.
“This acquisition strengthens our global position for offering world-class, high-performance release agents and metal cleaners to the marketplace, providing improved productivity for metal casters,” said Michael W. Swartzlander, vice president of Ashland Specialty Chemical, and general manager of Casting Solutions. “This is part of the total solution package offered by Casting Solutions, which includes binders, coatings, sleeves, sand additives, core and mold simulation software, and technical support and design services. Ashland continues to broaden the scope of products offered to the metal casting industry with
investment and continuing R&D for metal casting consumables.”
Casting Solutions is pursuing globalization of the technology, with planned manufacturing start-up projects at its facilities worldwide.
Dear Friends,
I am closing Foundry Information Systems in order to reorganize our services on a less burdensome business model. With the amount of business these last few years it doesn’t make sense to be burdened with the legal requirements of Incorporation or the required bookkeeping. Most of the services offered by FIS will still be available, and paid for service contracts will be honored.
It will take a few weeks to get everything back up to speed. Please bear with us.
Sincerely,
David Sparkman
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