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2019 SFSA Market Forecast
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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The Commentary argues that automation is not required for economic but for demographic reasons.
Automation, like in Japan, will be required to overcome the lack of new workers and maintain our
plants and companies…
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This month’s Casteel Commentary is some random ramblings about trade and the 232 case. I testified
on this case and…
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