Reshoring
The LA Times has a very interesting story about reshoring of work that left North America for distant shores over the past decade or so. The facts are that US manufacturing has many strong built-in advantages, and that is becoming clearer all the time. The article discusses wages, energy, currency, and other factors. Personal anecdotal evidence bears out these trends. Do please read the whole article.
Joyworks in the news
Joyworks Studio is in the May edition of modern casting magazine. This is a nice article and a credit to Justin and his colleagues at Joyworks. If you have never been there, you are missing out, I promise you!
AP’s Casting of the Year submission
AP submitted an ADI casting conversion as a candidate for the 2014 AFS Casting of the Year. We did this in collaboration with our friends from Urick Foundry and AerWay. We didn’t win this year, but we will be back! Congratulations to the winners, our friends at Aarrowcast with their excellent 842-lb. John Deere oil pan. Yikes! 842 lbs.!
Vasko’s Reading Pick
The City Journal is a site with some well-written and well-researched articles. I do my work in the field, and stories that are based on field observation resonate with me. Here is an article on the city of Havana that you might want to read, quietly, with a very dark cup of coffee.