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L A Aluminum Wins New Contracts, Adds Equipment
L A Aluminum won a con- tract to produce castings that go on the ends of collapsible towable tanks, which are used to deliver water or fuel to troops on the ground.
L A Aluminum Casting Co., Hayden,
Idaho, recently fi nalized two military contracts worth more than $5 million and has installed new casting and ma- chining equipment to keep up with the growing demand. According to Michelle Richter, L A Aluminum’s sales and marketing man- ager, the company has won a contract for $2.15 million to produce fi ttings for towable tanks that are used to transport water and fuel to military soldiers in the fi eld. Richter declined to disclose the details of the second contract but said all the parts would be delivered in 2010. In anticipation of the ramp up, L A Aluminum has added two new reverse tilt casting machines and is expecting to install a new machining lathe later this month. The company installed another
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est in a series of improvements Urick Foundry has made since 2003. The installation, which was approved in 2008, was begun on Oct. 23, and the new system launched on Nov. 16. The upgrade required that the facility be
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new machining center in January 2009. “Military contracts are responsible
for the exponential growth of L A Alu- minum in the last two years,” Richter said. “The new machines will be part of fl exible lean cells, which will better match the complexity of castings going through the machine shop on a daily basis. We will have fl exible cells where we can run multiple operations in a variety of confi gurations.” L A Aluminum is a permanent mold aluminum metalcasting facility and ma- chine shop making castings primarily for the OEM market. According to Rich- ter, the company has made castings for the military since it began doing business, but it also produces parts for the wind power turbine, nuclear and dental equipment markets.
METAL Urick Foundry Upgrades Sand System
closed for three weeks, according to Mayton. “It’s actually a good time to gut the
place, because all of the contractors were available,” he said. “There’s a lot to do when you are dealing with replacing all those different systems.”
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