Mercury Marine (Fond du Lac, Wisconsin) broke ground on a 30,000 sq. ft. addition to its propeller casting facility. When complete, Mercury’s propeller facilities total footprint will encompass 90,000 sq. ft. The expansion, which was officially announced during an event in May, will be at Mercury’s global headquarters in Fond […]
North America
AFS Corporate Member Latrobe Foundry Machine & Supply Co. (Latrobe, Pennsylvania) announced the opening of a second machining location in Pasco, Washington. The site will machine items from aluminum bar and tube stock and will increase capacity to better serve customers across the country. The manufacturing facility in Whitney, Pennsylvania, […]
Latrobe Foundry establishes new location
Problem-solving in life and in business can seem like a complex and intimidating effort causing many to fall back to a hands-off approach. But problems must be solved in a metalcasting operation or they eventually lead to additional costs to your business and loss of profitability. Using structured problem solving, […]
Solving the Problems in Your Foundry
he procedure of identifying, diagnosing and minimizing or eliminating crucial casting defects is important for a foundry to run in a low-cost, and high-efficiency mode. It can disprove incorrect conventional wisdom and show that unexpected methods are actually the best way to move forward. To do this, there are three […]
5 Steps to Identify Casting Defects
AFS Corporate Member ATEK Metal Technologies (New Hampton, Iowa) is expanding its plant and technical capabilities to keep up with demand. The company has recently completed a significant expansion of its metal casting, heat treatment and finished machining capabilities. “We added 40% to our low pressure permanent mold casting capacity […]
Atek Expanding Iowa Plant, Technical Capabilities
Ryobi Die Casting (Shelbyville, Indiana), a supplier of aluminum diecastings was recognized with an Excellence in Quality Award from Honda at its Annual Supplier Conference. Honda has more than 700 (OEM) suppliers that provide parts to 16 Honda plants in North America that produce Honda and Acura automobiles and light […]
Ryobi Die Casting Inc. Receives Award From Honda
AFS Corporate Member Waupaca Foundry (Waupaca, Wisconsin) was honored by Toyota Industrial Equipment Manufacturing with one of five available professional excellence awards. Waupaca is the first Tier II supplier to be honored with one of these awards. Waupaca has supplied iron castings to TIEM since 2002. In 2017, Waupaca was […]
Waupaca Foundry Honored By Toyota
AFS Corporate Member Betz Industries (Grand Rapids, Michigan) is planning to invest $3.5 million to add a new 41,280 sq. ft. facility in Walker, Michigan, that would offer machining services. The gray and ductile iron caster produces castings for multiple industries. According to a report from MiBiz.com, the addition could […]
Betz Industries Expanding
Simpson Technologies (Deutschland) GmbH (Alfeld, Germany), a subsidiary of AFS Corporate Member Simpson Technologies Corporation (Aurora, Illinois) specializing in process solutions for the metal casting and chemical process industries, announced the acquisition of Webac Gesellschaft für Maschinenbau GmbH (Euskirchen, Germany) together with its subsidiaries Webac Maskin AB (Stockholm, Sweden) and […]
Simpson Technologies Gmbh Acquires German Foundry Industry
Every automobile manufacturer has made it clear to their metal casting suppliers: reducing vehicle weight is increasingly important. Besides solid castings, hollow casting, a variation on the permanent mold process, is an option for producing complex lightweight structures. It can produce individual components that replace an assembly of metal parts, […]