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September 30, 2021
This month’s Casteel Commentary speculates on the issues we need to deal with for our uncertain times and future success. We will need to ensure reliable supplies, automate to supplement a limited workforce and re-invest to modernize and extend our technical capabilities. To be successful, we will need to be selective in our markets and customers to have the products and financial performance we need to create the next generation steel foundry industry…
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August 20, 2021
One theme in the Casteel Commentary for years is the looming demographic crisis for our workforce requirements. That is in plain English, our families are too small to replace our current workforce much less grow our economy. This will have an impact on everything and a dramatic impact on our businesses. John Workman from Eagle shared a compelling analysis with us that I wanted to share with you…
July 19, 2021
One change in the North American economy that we have noted in the past is the domination of services compared to manufacturing. This affects trade policy, where gaining advantages for services in trade is a priority over products. Another distortion from an investment standpoint is the inclusion of intellectual property in the statistics for capital investment…
June 15, 2021
The greatest challenge we are going to face for perhaps the next decade is workforce…
May 18, 2021
This month’s Casteel Commentary looks at North American steel casting industry capacity and what the future may hold. 75th Technical & Operating Conference - art contest, highlights of SFSA research at the University of Iowa and more…
April 20, 2021
China poses challenges for our industry. The challenge is not that they are more efficient, more capable, or lower-cost producers. Structurally, China’s activity has been a critical support to the market prices for energy and raw materials that has supported our industry while they have made uneconomical investments in manufacturing that will lead to problematic dislocations in the medium term…
March 16, 2021
The Casteel Commentary looks into the insanity of our current financial environment. New this year - the Cast in Steel Award. News about member interns, the Cast in Steel competition, Ductile Fracture Index research, understanding steel casting failures, member webinars, the upcoming 75th Technical and Operating Conference, and steel casting market trends…
February 15, 2021
Our 2021 steel casting forecast for the market demand was for a slight improvement in the first half of the year with stronger growth toward the year’s end. It looks as though the demand is stronger than that so far this year with more improved demand than anticipated. This raises the question of how we should think and plan for the possibility of a much stronger market in the coming year…
Steel Founders' Society of America Welcomes Project Engineer
January 19, 2021
SFSA is excited to announce that Caelan Kennedy has joined the company as Project Engineer.
January 15, 2021
This Casteel Commentary reviews the predictions from last January and makes some guesses about what will happen in 2021. Enjoy!
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