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Please check out our events page to see what events we will be attending in the near future!
Summer
- In 2009, Inc. magazine has, for the second year in a row, recognized buyCASTINGS as one of the top 500
fastest growing private companies in America.
Spring
- FOPAT personnel completed training and evaluation runs on the new FOPAT machine. We expect to start taking production orders by the middle of the month. We’re meeting with several potential customers and currently supplying foam patterns to many investment casting foundries for evaluation. Foundry guidelines for processing of FOPAT are being finalized.
Winter
- By the time Thanksgiving rolled around, buyCASTINGS.com was relocated to our new facility in Miamisburg, OH. Under our new roof we will be able to accommodate the new program for the Army called TacFab (Tactical Fabrication), which will provide quick turnaround capability for parts production. We also have space to scale up production for the FOPAT technology, a foam pattern material for the investment casting industry. With our original machine installed, we were able to run many different tools and shipped patterns to a new customer before Christmas. We also purchased and started up a brand new machine to ramp up FOPAT production and conduct technology scale-up work for the Air Force SBIR Phase II Extension project.
Fall
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New hires, Toni DiGeronimo and Bart McMannon, have joined the buyCASTINGS.com team. Toni brings her years of development engineering and sales experience to assist
with customer relations management. Bart is involved in facilities and production management at our new location in Miamisburg, OH, a suburb of Dayton.
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buyCastings has officially outgrown our current office. We will be moving to a new location in Miamisburg, OH, a suburb of Dayton.
The State of Ohio recently awarded buyCASTINGS.com a 45% tax credit for a six-year term to establish this new facility. The move will pay dividends as time passes,
as we continue to grow in 2009 and beyond.
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buyCASTINGS.com plans to invest $1.5 million to expand its operation and hire 65 more employees over the next three years. Money will be spent on new equipment
and developing materials and processes in the metal casting industry.
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FOPAT was recipient of a Phase II SBIR extension to transition its technology to the Air Force Joint Strike Fighter program.
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Inc.com, an acclaimed resource for entrepreneurs, has listed buyCastings as No. 240 on their list of the 500 fastest growing private companies in the US.
Spring
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Through their newly established Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Program, the DLA has selected buyCASTINGS'
FOPAT program for funding a Phase I program to develop low cost and short
lead time tooling for investment casting patterns.
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buyCastings.com has been selected to be on the Tactial Metal Fabrication System (TacFab) team!
Partnering with the South Carolina Research Authority (SCRA), buyCastings, along with the project team, will develop, integrate, and deploy TacFab which will provide
the means to produce duplicates of original parts on the go.
Fall
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Two new hires! Stefan Susta and Nick Cannell were brought on board the
buyCastings staff. Stefan's focus will be on government initiatives, business development, and commercialization. Nick Cannell is a long-time member of the castings
industry and brings his 20 years of experience to the team.
- ICI EXPO Edition, AUTUMN 2007 newsletter is released.
- buyCastings open an office in Cincinnati, OH. The office is located at 9319 Cincinnati-Columbus Rd in West Chester, Ohio.
Spring
Fall
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FOPAT, a
FOam PATtern material has been introduced. Being dubbed The Next Generation Investment Casting Pattern
Material, FOPAT is multi-component foam that is pushing the design envelope of wax-based investment cast
parts.
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Rapid Prototyping Growing into Rapid Manufacturing
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Bob Dzugan, president of buyCASTINGS.com Inc. and current Chairman of the AFS 4L committee on Investment Casting,
recently presented
a paper entitled "Computer Simulation to Predict Wax Tooling Dimensions" at Investment Casting Institute's 54th annual
conference and Expo...
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