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November 4, 2024

Man of Steel: Basic Carbon and Low Alloy Steel

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...

October 8, 2024

Man of Steel: Corrosion Resistant Stainless Steel

This blog is a continuation of our series covering the wide variety of steels in the Temperform alloy portfolio. So far in this series, we have covered Stainless Steel for Heat Resistance and Austenitic Manganese Steel. Today, we will be covering another fascinating material with an extremely wide variety of applications and properties, corrosion resistant...

August 28, 2024

Customized solutions for any industry

For over a half-century, Temperform has developed industry-specific capabilities to better serve our clients in a variety of industries. This industry-specialized proficiency helps us to excel in every aspect of the process for our customers. The industries Temperform serves What we supply to the cement manufacturing industry We serve a number of cement manufacturing plants...

August 14, 2024

Man of Steel: Austenitic Manganese Steel

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...

July 9, 2024

New research on penetration vs. thickness in washes

This past April, Lawton Standard industrial engineer Nick Knotts had the opportunity to present some of his research at the annual AFS Metalcasting Congress in Milwaukee. Nick had studied mold washes, particularly the effective penetration and mill thickness of refractory coatings. Industrial Engineer Nick Knotts on his research findings Nick Knotts’ research on mill thickness...

June 27, 2024

Temperform’s Damascus Steel product line

With a rich history and dedication to innovation and casting quality, the Lawton Standard Company is proud to have our Temperform facility producing Damascus Steel products. Damascus Steel transitioned into Temperform The Damascus Steel Casting Company was founded back in 1906. It operated in New Brighton, Pennsylvania for over 100 years. In 2020, Damascus Steel...

May 22, 2024

Failures in steel castings: “Rock Candy” fracturing

By Nick Knotts: Industrial Engineer for Temperform/Lawton Standard As foundries, we always try and produce the best product possible for our customers. However, as anyone familiar with foundries knows, there is an inherent amount of variation in foundry processes that sometimes leads to less than desirable outcomes. Most of the time, we can catch these...

May 1, 2024

Meet Temperform’s Plant Manager Gloria Webber

We’re happy to have Gloria Webber leading the way at Temperform. Gloria has a long history in the steel industry, starting right after she graduated from Michigan State University in 1982. She studied business management and marketing, with a minor in accounting. Now, Gloria has racked up 26 years in the foundry industry. Gloria’s early...

February 7, 2024

Temperform featured in Manufacturing in Focus

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...