Stainless Foundry News
Reverse Engineering: SF&E Creates 3D Model from Pattern
3D Modeling has proven results for OEMs, especially when sourcing complex parts. Prior to 3D modeling technology, a full pour was done to determine the integrity of a sand or investment casting. Every time a non-compliant defect was found, the rigging and gating needed to be modified and the process started all over again. This cost the customer and foundry valuable time and money.
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Foundry Expert Vijay Talwar Joins Stainless Foundry & Engineering as Director of Metallurgy & Process Engineering
Stainless Foundry & Engineering (SF&E) is pleased to announce the addition of Vijay Talwar as Director of Metallurgy & Process Engineering. Talwar brings with him over 40 years of foundry experience with significant knowledge in process engineering, metallurgy, alloy development, and the markets SF&E does business in.
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Oil Refinery Partners with Turbonetics and Stainless Foundry & Engineering on Illium PD Double Suction Casing
Stainless Foundry & Engineering (SF&E) helps its customers solve application challenges by focusing on quality engineering, field testing, and the proper alloy mix for the industry served. Turbonetics Engineering & Services finds trust and reliability in SF&E's process. Read more about how this partnership has grown to support Turbonetic's pump needs.
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Core Parts: Anatomy of a Centrifugal Pump
Stainless Foundry & Engineering was established more than 75 years ago with a focus on closed impellers for pumps and other parts that were difficult to cast. While we have expanded and developed our scope of expertise and service offerings, pump parts continue to be one of our strengths. In the following, we break down the anatomy of a centrifugal pump - an equipment staple for oil and gas, food and beverage, chemical and other such industries.
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For Fristam Pumps, Mutual Trust is Key to 20+ Year SF&E Partnership
When you walk through a grocery store, anything that is contained in a bottle, can, or tube most likely utilized a pump in the production process. From the milk processor removing milk from a tanker truck to the toothpaste manufacturer filling tubes, pumps make it all possible.
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State of the Industry: How Foundries Plan to Weather 2022
Foundries are facing the same challenges that most businesses are facing this year: limited workforce, parts scarcity, and shipping bottlenecks. It is both unprecedented and familiar at the same time. For years, foundries have had to remain flexible as order volumes increase and decrease in sync with the price of raw materials.…
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4 Critical Questions to Ask Before Moving an Alloy to a New Foundry
Starting a new relationship with a foundry is more than an investment in time and money to get patterns and tools over to them. The new foundry partner will also have to match your alloy specifications, which can feel like starting from scratch between your engineering team and their metallurgists.
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Spotlight on Quality & Engineering – a 75-year Evolution at SF&E
Stainless Foundry & Engineering (SF&E) has “engineering” in the name because we aren’t just a particularly focused alloy foundry, we produce over 250 different ferrous & non-ferrous alloys. Metallurgy has always been a strong focus that enables us to create solutions for our customers.
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75 Year Proclamation from Milwaukee County Executive
Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley paid a visit to Stainless Foundry & Engineering on Wednesday, December 15th to award a Proclamation to SF&E for achieving 75 years. After growing up in the neighborhood, Crowley shared his excitement for finally being able to see what Stainless Foundry & Engineering was all about.
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Stainless Foundry Celebrates 75 Years of High Quality and Dependable Service
“When I was young, my father told me something I will never forget. He employed 100 people at Stainless Foundry at the time, and said to me, ‘We don’t have 100 people working with us, we have 100 families who depend on Stainless Foundry for their livelihood.’
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Strohwig and Stainless Prove Supplier Partnerships Are a Two-Way Street
Strohwig Industries has been an approved supplier for Stainless Foundry & Engineering for years, but in the past three, our relationship has expanded into a preferred partnership. Strohwig specializes in complex, high-quality molds, dies, and precision parts.
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SF&E Flexes with High Chrome White Iron Complexity
When Stainless Foundry & Engineering (SF&E) announced its high chrome white iron alloy capabilities last year, the engineering team was focused on introducing processes and tools to continuously improve iron quality over time.
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How a Short Domestic Supply Chain Saves on Long-Term Costs
It’s an age-old question for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) – are the cost savings from offshore outsourcing worth the potential supply chain risk? Lower cost regions and countries can seem appealing from a profit margin standpoint.
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High Specification Inspection Cell Investment Creates 3 Key Benefits
The volume of high specification work at Stainless Foundry & Engineering (SF&E) has continuously increased. So much so, that high specification nondestructive testing (NDT) was creating a bottleneck in SF&E’s newly improved commercial production line, which prides itself on 4-6-week lead times.
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Expertise in Nuclear & NAVSEA
Stainless Foundry & Engineering (SF&E) has been producing cast and machined components for the nuclear and military industries for over 70 years. Our foundry and technical engineering staff have expertise in sea, land, and air applications.
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Can Your Foundry Weld This? SF&E Can.
Stainless Foundry & Engineering, Inc. (SF&E) casts over 250 alloys. When pouring that many materials, from time to time, we are required to perform repair welds to remove surface casting defects.
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CASE STUDY: Partnership Streamlines Production for Hydro-Thermal
Production can only be as smooth as a facility’s material flow. For Hydro-Thermal, the global leader in the development and manufacturing of Hydroheaters, production cannot be interrupted.
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PHOTO STORY: SF&E Machining
If you’re paying extra freight costs to ship castings from foundries to machine shops, or having quality struggles uncovering defects after machining, a foundry with in-house machining capabilities could be your solution.
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Modern Casting Features SF&E Careful Customer Contract Review
In March 2021, American Foundry Society’s issue of Modern Casting highlighted the importance of careful customer contract review and quality engineering at Stainless Foundry & Engineering (SF&E).
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First-of-its-Kind Antimicrobial Stainless Steel
Advancing Medical Innovations (AMI) announced earlier this month that its client, Performance Compounds Inside (PCI), has made historic advancements in metallurgy with its 3PRE Technology, a novel and proprietary process of activating antimicrobial properties.
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Schutte & Koerting Chooses SF&E Bronze for Quality, Consistency
Schutte & Koerting (S&K) has more than a century of experience in the design and manufacture of steam jet vacuum systems, steam jet heaters, exhausters and compressors, scrubber systems, desuperheaters, thermocompressors, eductors and syphons, ejectors, and valves.
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Bronze is Back – SF&E Dusts off 75 Years of Knowledge to Meet Growing Demand
When Stainless Foundry & Engineering opened its doors 75 years ago, bronze was one of our core competencies. SF&E worked with multiple military and commercial customers to pour non-ferrous propellers, various pump components, and split case pumps, among other parts.
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PHOTO STORY: BRONZE ALLOYS
Stainless Foundry & Engineering (SF&E) has been producing cast brass and bronze alloys since the 1970s. Within the past year, we have ramped up volume production and equipment investments to meet a growing need.
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SF&E Improves Castability and Production Timeline for Complex Impeller
Milwaukee, Wisconsin – November 19, 2020 – Stainless Foundry & Engineering today announced that Justin Chamberlin has joined the company as Technical Director. In this role, Chamberlin will oversee melting operations, process control, metallurgy, and the metallurgical lab.
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Justin Chamberlin Joins Stainless Foundry & Engineering as Technical Director
Milwaukee, Wisconsin – November 19, 2020 – Stainless Foundry & Engineering today announced that Justin Chamberlin has joined the company as Technical Director. In this role, Chamberlin will oversee melting operations, process control, metallurgy, and the metallurgical lab.
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Restructured, Revitalized, Re-Invigorated
Stainless Foundry & Engineering’s (SF&E) President & CEO, Jim Stachowiak, sat down with Manufacturing in Focus Magazine to share the company’s latest news and updates about restructuring, the COVID-19 affects on the foundry, the future of manufacturing, and more.
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Is Your Foundry Partner Adhering to Governmental Purchasing Requirements?
To function in the modern, industrialized manufacturing environment, business and quality systems require controls with formal guidelines and good practices. This is especially true when working in government purchasing.
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Non-destructive Testing Usages in the Foundry
Stainless Foundry & Engineering (SF&E) is nearing the end of a multi-phase, multi-year operations throughput improvement project. The goal: maximum optimization for an above-and-beyond customer experience.
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The Anatomy of a Pour: SF&E Takes on High-Chrome Iron Casting
Stainless Foundry & Engineering (SF&E) is nearing the end of a multi-phase, multi-year operations throughput improvement project. The goal: maximum optimization for an above-and-beyond customer experience.
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Shrinkage and Gas. How to Eliminate These Common Casting Defects
When castings have openings, cavities, porous sections, and similar defects on the internal or external surface, it is often called porosity. It is generally due to shrinkage or gas as the casting cools. Both are caused by very different sources.
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How SF&E is Cutting Lead Times – Again.
In 2019, Stainless Foundry & Engineering announced that halfway through its multi-year initiative to overhaul sand and investment foundry operations, we had already achieved lead times between 5 and 7 weeks.
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Steel Founders’ Society of America Recognizes Robert Uitz as Master Founder
Robert (Bob) Uitz, Quality Assurance Welding Program Coordinator at Stainless Foundry & Engineering (SF&E), has been recognized by the Steel Founders’ Society of America as a Master Founder and the newest member of the Steel Founders’ Society of America Guild.
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Worth the Risk? 4 Critical Questions to Ask Before Working with a New Foundry.
There are many reasons why original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) question their relationship with an existing foundry partner, from inconsistent quality to ineffective communication.
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Business Update to Our Customers and Business Partners amid COVID-19
Dear Valued Customer, Future Customer, and Business Partner, Stainless Foundry & Engineering, Inc. has been operating daily and responding to all customer requests in a timely manner, pouring & delivering successful complex castings, in over 250 alloys, in record lead times.
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SF&E Pours Largest Nuclear Impeller in its History
We poured the largest impeller in the history of our company. Utilizing AOD ingot, we melted and cast 6,000 pounds of CA6NM martensitic stainless steel. The reputation of Stainless Foundry & Engineering (SF&E) was built on being an industry leader in manufacturing all styles of impellers.
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How a Short Supply Chain Saves on Long-term Costs
It’s an age-old question for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) – are the cost savings from offshore outsourcing worth the potential supply chain risk? Lower cost regions and countries can seem appealing from a profit margin standpoint.
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COVID-19 – Update from our President & CEO
As we all come together to slow the spread of COVID-19 while keeping critical business operating, we want to share with all our Customers, Business, and Community Partners that Stainless Foundry & Engineering, Inc. has been deemed an essential business according to the U.S. Department of Homeland
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Investment Casting Vs Sand Casting: Differences and Advantages
Investment casting and sand casting are reliable, cost-effective, quality manufacturing processes that allow for flexibility in budgets, timelines, and design.
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Why Responsiveness is an Industry Game-Changer
If you asked a Stainless Foundry & Engineering (SF&E) customer six years ago about the company’s responsiveness, they might have said it was minimal. Or, more likely, they would have said it was “as expected.” Metal manufacturers have historically operated under the reputation that customers get what they get when they get it.…
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Can Castings be Welded?
The world of fusion welding has effected many industries and fabrication opportunities worldwide. Countless industrial items are assembled using a vast number of different welding techniques governed by numerous rules, codes and norms. Casting upgrade welding is a very specialised series of operations.…
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