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Culture - Jan 27, 2025

A lifetime of achievement - The Business News

The American Foundry Society recently awarded Bryant Esch – corporate sustainability manager at Waupaca Foundry – the Childress-Loebler Lifetime Achievement Award.

Heather Graves | The Business News

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Sustainability - Oct 2, 2024

Waupaca Foundry Recognized for Sustainability Efforts

Waupaca Foundry has earned notable recognition for its commitment to sustainability, with Marco Gonzalez, the company’s corporate energy manager, receiving the prestigious Energy Manager of the Year award for the Midwest from the Association of Energy Engineers.

The BRAKE Report

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Sustainability - Sep 16, 2024

Better Buildings Initiative Partners: Nearly $22B In Energy Savings

DOE report recognizes Better Buildings program partners’ efforts to decarbonize, boost energy efficiency of buildings, manufacturing plants.

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#energy #sustainability

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Global MFG - Jun 27, 2024

The Future Of Smart Manufacturing Takes A New Turn With AI

From increasingly sophisticated large language models to impressive analytics capabilities, AI has demonstrated that it’s much more than a passing trend. But will that be true for asset-intensive industries like industrial manufacturing? Industrial ...

Judy Cubiss | Forbes Magazine

#ai #innovation #manufacturing #sustainability

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Global MFG - Jun 25, 2024

3 Trends Shaping The Manufacturing Industry

The value added to the manufacturing market is projected to amount to $2 trillion this year, underscoring the industry's growth ... process. This could improve workflow and create new designs that can help new business and sales developments ...

Matt Logan | Forbes Magazine

#energy #manufacturing #sustainability #technology

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Global MFG - Jun 21, 2024

Key Manufacturing Trends Help Ensure Overall Industrial Growth

Digitalization, improved focus on sustainability and mitigating the risk of a skills gap will help ensure industry continues in a positive trajectory year on year.

Chris Thompson | Automation.com

#skillsgap #sustainability #technology

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Sustainability - Jun 10, 2024

‘We have a responsibility to lead by example’ - The Business News

Waupaca Foundry emphasizes sustainability in its operations, focusing on various initiatives to reduce its environmental impact.

Heather Graves | The Business News

#commercial #recycle #sustainability

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Sustainability - May 22, 2024

Rethinking Manufacturing: How Local Production And Tech Drive A More Sustainable Future

This shift from old, wasteful methods to a new, more sustainable approach benefits everyone—makers, creators, consumers and, most importantly, our planet.

Forbes Magazine

#manufacturing #sustainability

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Sustainability - Apr 25, 2024

Ep. 26 (4/25/24): Earth Week 2024: Waupaca Foundry is a global sustainability leader

One of the largest, most heavy-duty companies in Northeast Wisconsin is also one of its most sustainable. In celebration of Earth Week, Waupaca Foundry Corporate Sustainability Manager Bryant Esch joins the podcast to talk about three decades of green innovation at the foundry. His work has led the American Foundry Society to call Bryant "the leading voice for green manufacturing," and he shares what he's learned over the years on this week's episode, including key insights that cut across industries. Thank you to Wintrust Commercial Banking at Town Bank, N.A. for sponsoring the podcast all month long.

Insight on Manufacturing | Spreaker From iHeart

#environment #sustainability

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Sustainability - Apr 5, 2024

Foundries and the Evolution of Sustainable Manufacturing | Casting Source

Metalcasting, one of the oldest industrial processes known to humanity, has traditionally been synonymous with recycling. For centuries, foundries have transformed old metal scraps into new products, embodying a form of environmental sustainability. While this is a foundation to a claim that a well-run foundry is an environmentally sustainable business, what other opportunities define a foundry’s success in achieving benchmark environmental performance? In today’s rapidly changing landscape, what does sustainability truly mean for foundries, and how can they stay ahead of evolving standards? As a freshly-minted environmental professional in 1990, I unpredictably found myself immersed in the metals industry. Working with a family-owned electroplating firm, I witnessed firsthand the challenges posed by burgeoning environmental regulations.

Bryant Esch | Casting Source

#environment #sustainability

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Sustainability - Feb 12, 2024

The business case for sustainability

Manufacturing roundtable highlights importance of sustainable practices, initiatives

Rachel Sankey | The Business News

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Global MFG - Jan 26, 2024

The auto industry is a major contributor to climate change.

Why suppliers are critical to reducing the auto industry's carbon footprint

he auto industry is a major contributor to climate change. Automakers' plans to reduce the industry's carbon footprint will only work if they can get suppliers to come along.

John Irwin | Automotive News

#carbonfootprint #supplychain #sustainability

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Sustainability - Jan 9, 2024

The Waupaca Way - sustainability is built into the culture of the foundry

WAUPACA – For the second consecutive year, Waupaca Foundry was awarded the American Foundry Society’s (AFS) Green Foundry Award for its ongoing commitment to sustainable production processes and energy reduction.

Heather Graves | The Business News

#environment #sustainability

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Iron Castings - Dec 8, 2023

Printing Payback

Thanks to investment in an ExOne S-MAX Pro 3D sand printer, Waupaca Foundry is now able to turn around a prototype in days instead of weeks. It’s a long list of potential use cases, many of which were probably never anticipated when she fired off the purchase order for that machine. And so it is with desktop printers’ more productive and accurate counterparts: production 3D printers. Here, end-use parts in polymer and metal alike are possible.

Kip Hanson | Smart Manufacturing

#3dprinting #sustainability

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Sustainability - Oct 20, 2023

Waupaca Foundry Wins Sustainability Awards

Waupaca Foundry is again the recipient of environmental awards from both national trade organizations and customers.

Mike Geylin | The BRAKE Report

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Global MFG - Jul 30, 2023

Hydrogen hubs form backbone of ‘once in a generation' clean energy effort

Thirty-three finalists are vying to develop regional hydrogen hubs, and the Energy Department expects to unveil winners in September.

Pete Bigelow | Automotive News

#energy #sustainability

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Sustainability - Jun 15, 2023

The Heat Is On

The world is serious about sustainability, and foundries will face increasing pressure in the supply chain to control their energy consumption and thereby lower CO2 emissions.

Modern Casting

#environment #sustainability

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Sustainability - May 7, 2023

Audi changes what, how it builds to drive out CO2

As it switches from ICE to BEV by 2033, Audi is also changing the way its assembly plants produce vehicles, concentrating on making those plants — and ultimately the rest of its operations — carbon neutral.

Larry P. Vellequette | Automotive News

#environment #sustainability

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Sustainability - Apr 30, 2023

The world auto industry is attacking carbon emissions as a shared goal

Automotive News takes a deep dive into how the audacious gambit is affecting everything from technology, production, labor and trade to the industry's rapidly changing competitive landscape.

Hans Greimel | Automotive News

#automotive #environment #sustainability

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Sustainability - Jan 11, 2023

Waupaca Foundry Awarded for Environmental Accomplishments

The Wisconsin-based ferrous foundry group Waupaca Foundry Inc. has been recognized by federal, state, and trade organizations for its recent efforts to reduce energy consumption and adopt “smart” controls for environmental management.

Foundry Management & Technology

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Sustainability - Nov 29, 2022

Meet The Under 30s Powering The Future Of Energy And Sustainability

These low-carbon visionaries have big plans — for laser furnaces, atomic batteries, smart windows and flywheels.

Chris Helman, Olivia Peluso and Hank Tucker | Forbes Magazine

#energy #sustainability

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Sustainability - Oct 5, 2022

Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce Announces Recipients of 2022 Business Friend of the Environment Award

Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce (WMC) announced on October 4, 2022, Waupaca Foundry as the recipient of the Wisconsin Business Friend of the Environment Award in the Environmental Innovation category for its energy upgrade to a smart exhaust fan system at Plant 2/3.

Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce

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Global MFG - Jul 20, 2022

Creating a Golden Era of Onshoring

Among the latest buzzwords (or in this case, buzz terms) in the C-suite is what some are predicting to be the "Golden Era of Onshoring." To examine this concept, it makes sense to review some history.

Home | Industrial Equipment News

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- May 4, 2022

Waupaca Foundry detects PFAS in groundwater

The known presence of PFAS in the Marinette area spurred Waupaca Foundry to test for the chemicals while having utility work done at its site. Exactly what the PFAS detected on Waupaca’s property stems from is difficult to say, Neste said. "It looks like it's coming from prior use of the site. There's nothing the Waupaca Foundry is doing to release those compounds," said David Neste, hydrogeologist at the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

EH Extra

#marinette #sustainability

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Global MFG - Mar 14, 2022

Wisconsin companies, city of Madison join challenge to cut carbon emissions in half by 2030

Wisconsin companies, a health system and the city of Madison are among more than 90 organizations that recently announced a commitment to cut their carbon emissions in half by 2030.

Danielle Kaeding | Wisconsin Public Radio

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Sustainability - Mar 1, 2022

Waupaca Foundry Accepts Better Climate Challenge

Innovation has been a top priority for Waupaca Foundry; if you aren’t looking ahead, you’re already behind. Moving beyond the innovation in how to make our casting, Waupaca Foundry is molding the path for what a “green foundry” looks like.

Lydia Engelbreth | Waupaca Foundry

#energy #innovation #recycle #sustainability

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Global MFG - Sep 25, 2021

Volvo hopes ‘green steel' will catch on

The automaker plans to commercialize a technology that promises to eliminate the use of coking coal — a major pollutant.

Urvaksh Karkaria | Automotive News

#automotive #sustainability

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Community - Jun 21, 2021

Waupaca Eco Park – A True Natural Playground to Explore

This Waupaca neighborhood park is perfect for nature nuts! This park offers play equipment built from locally sourced, natural materials.

Jillian Burgess | Go Valley Kids

#community #foundrysand #recycle #sustainability #waupaca

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Sustainability - Mar 2, 2021

Becoming More Sustainable

Metalcasting businesses gain many advantages through efforts to become more sustainable. They can save money, improve the environment for their employees and community, and show they can be part of their customers' own sustainability goals.

Shannon Wetzel | Modern Casting

#energy #sustainability

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Sustainability - Feb 4, 2021

Foundry’s sustainability initiatives

Bryant Esch will present “Building the Green Foundry–Sustainability Initiatives at Waupaca Foundry” at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 8.

Hosted by Winchester Academy, this is the first of six programs in the Spring-Winter 2021 series. It will be presented virtually, due to the coronavirus pandemic. The broadcast can be heard on WILW 96.3 FM or viewed on WIN-TV, Facebook Live, or YouTube.

Waupaca now | waupacanow.com

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Global MFG - Jan 20, 2021

Sustainable Resolve

Scrap consumption is one of the many sustainable aspects of Waupaca Foundry Inc., headquartered in Wisconsin.

DeAnne Toto | Recycling Today

#recycle #scrap #sustainability #wfnews

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Sustainability - Nov 16, 2020

Insight on Manufacturing - November 2020

The American Foundry Society's 2020 Green Foundry Sustainability Award is just the latest sustainability honor for Waupaca Foundry. In the past 15 months, the company received the 2020 Better Project award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Better Plants program for innovations at its Tell City, Ind. plant, and the 2019 Business Friend of the Environment Award from the Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce. (See page 32.)

Marybeth Matzek | insightdigital.biz

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Sustainability - Oct 7, 2020