日本川崎重工业公司的稻美铸造车间设在明石市以西约10公里的兵库县加古郡稻美町。该车间于1972年4月22日竣工投产,是川崎重工业公司兴建的一个采用流态砂造型(K法工艺)生产大型铸铁件的新型铸造车间。在稻美铸造车间的建设中,特别注意采用了一些新装备,以使产品质量稳定和节省劳动力,并且,对公害也采取了一定的对策。 Japan’s Kawasaki Heavy Industries’s rice plant in the United States is located in the city of Akashi approximately 10 kilometers of Hyogo Prefecture, Hyogo Prefecture, the United States and Iraq. The workshop was completed and put into production on April 22, 1972. It is a new foundry built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. to produce large-scale iron castings by using flow sand molding (K-process). In the construction of the rice-US foundry, special attention has been paid to using some new equipment to ensure stable product quality and labor-saving, and some countermeasures against pollution have also been taken.