We’re proud of our own industrial engineer Nick Knotts for always looking for innovative ways to make the castings we produce… better. Nick was awarded the Founders’ Choice Award for his research paper on the effects of mold wash drying methods on the formation of gasses and inclusions. He presented the paper at the Steel...Continue Reading

Nick Knotts, Industrial Engineer, The Lawton Standard Company Today, we will be continuing our series of blogs on Temperform Materials.  So far, we have talked about Heat Resistant Stainless Steel, Corrosion Resistant Stainless Steel, Austenitic Manganese Steel, Basic Carbon and Low Alloy Steel, and High Strength, Low Alloy Steel.  In this blog, we will cover...Continue Reading

Nick Knotts, Industrial Engineer, The Lawton Standard Company  This blog is another continuation of our series covering the different families of steels that Temperform produces.   In our last entry, we talked about Basic Carbon and Low Alloy Steel, which is a subcategory of the broader group of carbon and low alloy steel.  This blog will...Continue Reading

By Nick Knotts, Industrial Engineer for The Lawton Standard Co. This blog is another continuation of our series covering the different families of steels that Temperform produces.   In our last entry, we talked about corrosion resistant stainless steel, which wraps up our stainless-steel topics and brings us into my absolute favorite group of steel, carbon...Continue Reading

Of all the materials that mankind has ever discovered or developed, my extremely biased opinion is that steel is the greatest of them all.  That being said, to say steel is the greatest material of all time is like saying that cake is the greatest food of all time. There are a wide variety of...Continue Reading