2006 Highlights
May 2006
Dave Rauen has been hired as the new Project Manager of Castings.
buyCASTINGS has moved to new offices. These offices are bigger and allow for expansion...
Volume 14 of our newsletter, Netcaster Spring 2006 CastEXPO Edition, has been released.
It's NOT about price... In slow times, buyCASTINGS provided it's foundries with buyers and request for castings from buyers
January 2006
FOPAT Phase II SBIR awarded to buyCASTINGS Team of suppliers - the team will develop, scale up, and commercialize FOPAT a new pattern material for the investment casting industry.
Volume 13 of our newsletter, Netcaster Autumn 2005 ICI Edition, has been released, featuring articles on industry news and opportunities.
Quality Steel Castings Start Here. A larger number of casters are foregoing the capital, time, energy and overhead necessary to maintain a refining melt shop and opting for purchasing the metal in ingot form.
Vegas to Ring in Next 100 Years with Liberty Bell from buyCASTINGS
August 2005
An article on buyCASTINGS has been published in the August 5, 2005 print edition of the Dayton Business Journal. The article entitled, "New Course," talks about buyCASTINGS creating a new division to handle project managment for customers.
The 12th Edition of our newsletter, "NETCASTER, The Metal Castings Marketplace of the Future," has been released. It Includes articles on metal casting industry issues, solutions, opportunities, and development.
buyCASTINGS Expands its Equipment-For-Sale Site - Now features easier to use interface, where sellers can post items for sale for a nominal fee and buyers can post requests for items for free. Try it out, registration is free!
Steel Investment Castings Made by buyCASTINGS’ Foundry Increase the Quality of Life and Care
We have recently updated our Upcoming Events page with new events.
April 2005
- 11th Newsletter, The Metal Castings Marketplace of the Future, NETCASTER. Includes articles on metal casting industry issues, solutions, opportunities, and development. Now featuring a new, easier to navigate design.
March 2005
- buyCASTINGS adds two more interns to their work roster as of March 2005: Jennifer Hickey for IT Marketing Support and Kirk Thomas for IT Technical Support.
Dec 2004
- 10th Newsletter, The Metal Castings Marketplace of the Future, NETCASTER. Includes articles on metal casting industry issues, solutions, opportunities, and development.
June - July 2004
buyCASTINGS submitted seven proposals for funding various castings and business development projects.
Ravi Alluri and Graham Hutchinson joined as buyCASTINGS student interns.
June 2004
- buyCASTINGS President, Bob Dzugan, to chair 4L Investment Casting Committee. Full Story
May 2004
- 9th Newsletter, The Metal Castings Marketplace of the Future, NETCASTER. Includes articles on metal casting industry issues, solutions, opportunities, and development.
Jan 2004
- The legendary HEMI engine breathes again with the help of buyCASTINGS.com and Prototype Casting, Inc.
- Growing the Castings Pie. The foundry industry faces challenges like never before -- a slow economy, buyer's pushing on costs and terms, offshore foundries low-balling, growing environmental issues, soaring health care costs just to name the top few concerns.
- Sawbrook Steel Receives $200k Grant for Plant-Wide Assessment. buyCASTINGS assembled a team of experts to evaluate the Sawbrook Steel Casting Plant in Cincinnati.
- buyCASTINGS' Partner Provides Options for Health Care Savings, a customer-driven advisory company, a preliminary report and a formal proposal, The goal of our work is to find innovative ways to refine an existing program.
- According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), the average US worker is the top dog of production.
- buyCASTINGS is deeply involved in the metal casting industry and supports many of its activities.
- buyCASTINGS' Team Lands Casting Development Order For Next Generation Power Reactor. Development and prototype fabrication of a modular coil winding form 5000 lb stainless steel casting for PPPL's (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory) National Compact Stellarator Experiment (NCSX).
- "Despite the recession, Ohio still has the most foundries in the country", says Mr. Bill Manz of the Ohio Office of Energy Efficiency.
- ZCast™ Direct Metal Casting process provides the ability to produce cast metal parts from a CAD file significantly faster and less expensively than traditional prototype casting methods.
September 5, 2003
- A Memorial To Frank DeMeo. U.S. metal casting industry lost former CEO of General Castings.
February 2003
- buyCASTINGS wins a major contract to manage a team of vendors for a large order.
February 4, 2003
- buyCASTINGS signs a Letter of Understanding for a Service Agreement for providing all legal services for buyCASTINGS.
January 7, 2003
- buyCASTINGS signs a Partnership Letter of Understanding for a Service Agreement with a local CPA firm.
December 2003
- buyCASTINGS completed major project deliverables for a plant-wide assessment for a steel casting foundry.
November 26, 2002
- The price has been significantly reduced on the following Used Equipment For Sale: 1993 Inductotherm Induction Melting System, Model VIP Power-Melt 7000-2R, 7000 Kw, 200-300 Hz.
October 29, 2002
- Now available via the buyCASTINGS.com News page: "Business-to-Business e-Commerce for the Metal Casting Industry" (203 kB ) - This four-page report dated August 5, 2002 is full of facts and information.
October 4, 2002
Advertise with us via Directed Mass E-mails! Much more powerful than traditional mail.
Reach your customers at minimal cost! with Just-In-Time Ads.
October 4, 2002
- The Fall 2002 issue of NETCASTER is on-line!
- Visit buyCASTINGS.com personnel at 2002 Trade Shows. See the Upcoming Events page.
- We welcome Mr. Lee Morris to our staff to serve your needs.
- A Summary of Operational Progress (Updated to July 12, 2002) has been linked to the New Investor's page.
July 16, 2002
- Read Expanding Patternmaking Capabilities, reprinted with permission from the June 200 issue of Modern Casting.
buyCASTINGS.com -- A New Institute Member With a New Idea for a Casting Industry in the New Millennium -- Reprinted by permission from INCAST Magazine (Investment Casting Institute). This article may also be accessed from the New Investors and buyCASTINGS.com News pages.
June 13, 2002
- We welcome Permocast as an advertiser - Aluminum Castings and Permanent Mold. Permanent Mold is a great alternative to Die or Sand Casting, providing you, the customer, with high-quality castings at reasonable tooling and part prices. Please visit their Web site from the Buyers page.
May 30, 2002
- We welcome Mr. Gary Burrow to the buyCASTINGS.com staff. He is local to Southern California. Please see our Directory for contact information.
May 29, 2002
- buyCASTINGS.com - A Success Story.
May 20, 2002
- The buyCASTINGS.com Spring/Summer CastExpo Newsletter is on-line.
May 3, 2002
- Please check the Equipment for Sale page. New equipment has been added, namely 3 Steel Foundry Baskets.
The Upcoming Events page has been update
From the Industry News page, please visit FoundryOnline.com for the latest developments in the casting industry and in materials and process technologies
You may now access a list of Foundry Equipment for Sale from the Surplus Equipment page in the Product Showcase.
The buyCASTINGS.com News page has been updated.
April 8, 2002
- We welcome Lori Devoe to the buyCASTINGS.com staff.
April 3, 2002
- Please visit the Collaborative-Concurrent Engineering Site via the Buyers page or the Site Map.
February 8, 2002
- When you submit a Request for a Quote on a casting and have drawings of the casting, you can now send us the drawing via a FAX: 903-417-9165. The drawings will be then processed electronically for posting on the buyCASTINGS.com Collaborative Engineering site. The FAX number is listed on the Directory page.
February 1, 2002
- Read the Winter 2002 edition of the Net Caster, the buyCASTINGS.com Newsletter. A link to the Inaugural Newsletter can be found on the Site Map.
