Copper’s COVID-killing properties!

An article by Kim Phelan in the Jan/Feb 2022 issue of Casting Source Magazine entitled “Who’s ready for a Copper-Covered World?” talks about the EPA’s approvals about copper’s COVID-killing and antimicrobial properties.  The article shares that as of February 10, 2021, manufacturers are approved to source EPA-registered copper alloys containing…

A Recurring Theme

Recently, we had to replace a vertical centrifugal mold due to metal fatigue. We made several improvements in the new mold design, one of which included increasing the length to the maximum available height of our centrifuge. Limited only by the weight capacity of our furnace, we can now cast…

Working Together

Working together with customers to solve problems has kept O&D strong. We have a customer who needed a solution to a part that continued to fail prematurely in application. Our first step was to modify one of our horizontal centrifugal molds to cast his part as a flange, saving him…