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Steel Investment Castings Made by buyCASTINGS’
Foundry Increase the Quality of Life and Care


The Lift Aid Transport™ is a revolutionary portable patient lift and transportation system. It is affordable, cost effective alternative for care providers. A single care giver can lift, transfer, weigh and transport a patient up to 500 Pounds with ease, comfort and security. In the care environment, The Lift Aid Transport™ helps to reduce lifting injuries, which can lower disability claims and reduce lost time. In the professional health care environment, this system can help reduce payroll costs and back injuries while enhancing patient care and increasing safety.


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 Strategic Sales
Integrating the Cast Metals Broker into the
Foundry's overall Strategic Sales Plan


Many foundries today use Sales or Manufacturers Reps to sell their goods and services. One thing for certain is that the benefits of using an outsourced field sales force have documented reward potential for both the foundry and sales representatives. The utilization of a solid working "Rep Force" is or should be seen as one "Channel Strategy", or one avenue for sales.


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 Manufacturing
Who is Really Responsible for Job Losses?

A huge US trade deficit steadily building up to about 3-4% of GNP, makes you think that international trade, and in particular a flood of imported goods from China and of services from India, is to blame for the loss of US jobs. In fact, research shows that only 11 percent of the job losses in manufacturing-about 314,000 jobs-can be attributed to trade. In other words, 89% of all US job losses are NOT due to foreign competition at all. For instance, even in the 11% of the jobs that were lost, the real culprit was falling exports, not rising imports...


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buyCASTINGS Expands its
Equipment-For-Sale Site


It all started two years ago with a few foundries requesting used furnaces or used cleaning equipment or wheel grinders. At the same time suppliers of equipment as well as foundries wanted to sell their used equipment and excess inventory. So, buyCASTINGS created a simple website under buyCASTINGS.com that catered to the buyers and sellers of equipment and supplies...


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