Benchmarking SHELL RECYCLING, PRODUCTIVITY METRICS, AND RISERING PRACTICES in the North American Investment Casting Industry: This article is a precursor to the full paper reporting on all of the survey questions and results (paper #25-061) to be published and presented at the 2025 AFS Cast Expo in Atlanta next April. The full paper includes a background literature search including 60 relevant citations

Acknowledgements This survey was part of an AMC project that was sponsored by the Defense Logistics Agency-Troop Support, Philadelphia, PA and the Defense Logistics Agency Information Operations, J68, Research & [...]