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January 8, 2020
2020 SFSA Market Forecast
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Casteel Reporter
January 20, 2020
The Casteel Commentary reviews the predictions from last January and makes some guesses about what will happen in 2020. Enjoy!
November 20, 2019
2019 SFSA Market Forecast
November 7, 2019
The Casteel Commentary this month is long and deals with trade. The shift in U.S. trade policy was not merely a preference of the Trump administration, it is an inevitable recognition of the changes in the trading system. Nationalism is the consequence of the changes in trading practices in part facilitated by containerization and IT communication. The commentary looks at these issues…
September 18, 2019
Where are we going to find the workers we need? Well, they don’t exist, we stopped having enough children to supply our businesses. So, the Casteel Commentary shows that advanced manufacturing, especially automation is not just an option for improving our operation, it is a critical task to remain viable and prosperous…
June 11, 2019
This month’s Casteel Commentary describes the success of our Cast in Steel Competition. We are encouraging all our members to consider helping form a team to compete next year.
March 14, 2019
The Casteel Commentary reviews SFSA efforts with the Department of Defense to develop a new set of tools for design of steel castings in a model-based environment. This is exciting stuff and we need your support, help and guidance.
January 9, 2019
Steel foundries will face challenges in the marketplace, in staffing and in responding to global economic conditions. For the commentary, I review my thoughts from last January on 2018 and share my thoughts for 2019. Hope you enjoy and disagree. It makes the ongoing discussion more fun and useful.
November 20, 2018
The Casteel Commentary focusses on the challenge of developing the next generation workforce. It argues that we will have a persistent problem finding capable workers and our future will require developing smart automation to replace many of the manual operations common in our current plants.
August 9, 2018
This month’s Casteel Commentary is a review of the tariff actions of the US and then possible effects in the steel casting market. The 232 tariffs are not including steel castings. The 301 actions do include steel casting categories and are specific actions to address trade with China…
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