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

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...Continue Reading

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...Continue Reading

Nick Knotts, Industrial Engineer for the Lawton Standard Co. has been with the company for 2 1/2 years and spent most of his time working on-site at Temperform as both an industrial engineer and a quality engineer. He came from a sister company from the same owners that were involved in automation. He was really...Continue Reading