Temperform was featured in the February 2024 issue of Manufacturing in Focus. “For over 50 years, Detroit-based Temperform has provided customers with high-quality heat, abrasion, and corrosion-resistant castings and machined components. Manufacturing no-bake sand mold steel and stainless steel castings weighing from just two pounds all the way to 5,500 pounds, award-winning Temperform is renowned...Continue Reading

By: Nick Knotts, Industrial Engineer, The Lawton Standard Company Damascus Steel Castings Co. merged into Temperform, LLC. as a product line in 2020.  Prior to merging with Temperform, Damascus Steel had been servicing customers since 1906 in a variety of industries, though predominantly serving coal, scrap metal, construction, and seamless tubes. Damascus products are made from...Continue Reading

By: Nick Knotts, Industrial Engineer, The Lawton Standard Company Why stainless steel? When it comes to castings for heat resistant applications, stainless steel is one of the most commonly selected materials. Heat resistant steels are made up of a variety of different microstructures, ranging from ferritic to austenitic and everything in between. Heat resistant steels...Continue Reading

What is it? Consignment inventory is a supply chain in which retailers offer their products, but the suppliers keep the inventory of the products until they are sold. Unlike traditional inventory practices, consignment inventory puts responsibility to sell goods on the manufacturer or supplier. How does it work? Typically, the supplier would approach the retailer...Continue Reading

Author: Nick Knotts, Industrial Engineer, The Lawton Standard Co. What are some of the current trends in the foundry industry? As the economic, social, and technological climate changes in the world, all industries inevitably must adapt to survive, and the foundry industry is no different. As a result, foundries across the United States are taking steps to...Continue Reading