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In this January 27, 2010 Publication:
Legislation To Block EPA From Regulating
Greenhouse Gases
Twin City Die Casting Enters India
Weak Inventory Rebound May Harm
Manufacturing Recovery
Optimizing the Design Cycle – Working
with Your Customer
Registration for CastExpo'10 Now Open!
Legislation Introduced To Block EPA From Regulating Greenhouse Gases
The Washington Post (1/22, Eilperin) reports, "A bipartisan group of
senators introduced legislation Thursday to block the Environmental Protection Agency
from regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act." The EPA "has been moving
forward to enact regulations that would put costly limits on power plant pollution."
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), said, "We're being presented with a false choice between
unacceptable legislation and unacceptable regulations." Murkowski, "joined by three
Democrats and 35 other Republicans, said she is offering a 'resolution of disapproval'
that would prevent the EPA from taking action on emissions by reversing its recent
finding that greenhouse gases endanger the public's health and welfare." The "resolution
faces an uphill battle because it would have to pass both houses, but it highlights the
deep unease that Republicans and moderate Democrats feel about taking action on climate
change -- either in legislation or through the EPA."
Twin City Die Casting Enters India
CHENNAI: Twin city die castings company ( TCDC), North America’s oldest die casting
company, has entered India by floating a joint venture with Chennai-based pressure die
casting company, CRP India, which is supplying varied products to leading auto companies
in the last 30 years.
In the JV styled, CRI (CRP TCDC Die Casting India), CRP will hold 51% stake and the US
partner the rest. It will invest Rs 100 crore over three years to expand capacity and
establish new production lines at CRP’s existing facility at Gummidipoondi near Chennai.
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Weak Inventory Rebound May Harm Manufacturing Recovery
BusinessWeek (1/20, Bogoslaw) reports, "The unemployment rate is
10%. Bank lending to small businesses remains a trickle. ... So why are economists and
strategists so optimistic on prospects for economic growth?" A "reason for the rosy view
is expectation that business inventories...have to be rebuilt and will help fuel demand
for materials and jobs throughout 2010 and beyond." However, one economist says "that
may be a faulty assumption." David Huether, chief economist for the NAM, "expects
inventory rebuilding to contribute to this recovery much the way it did in the last two
recoveries in 1993 and 2002, which were not consumer-driven. Except for one or two
quarters in 2002 where restocking accounted for three or more percentage points of GDP
growth, it wasn't a significant factor, he says."
Optimizing the Design Cycle – Working with Your Customer
Technology is constantly evolving around us. No matter what line of business a company
is in, standing still in technological capabilities causes a company to fall behind its
competitors. In die casting, even more resistance to change is present than in other
industries. The way it has always been done seems to dictate how it should be done in
the future. But holding on to the past too tightly is one way of ensuring that there is
no future in die casting. One area in which the die casting industry has fallen behind
is not even a new technology. It is the communication tool of the manufacturing world —
3-D design. Customers develop component and assembly designs in 3-D. Tooling suppliers
work with those part models and create 3-D cavity models. Die casters have
enthusiastically provided input to both the customer and tool vendor, but overall, die
casters have done a poor job of communicating fluently in that language themselves. That
has held die casters back from helping customers optimize their design cycle and
minimize overall costs. To read more about how to optimize the design cycle by working
with your customer, click
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