. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . inDustry neWs


Deere to Invest $100 Million in Casting Facility Deere & Co., Moline, Ill., an-


nounced it will invest approximately $100 million to modernize the John Deere Foundry in Waterloo, Iowa. The company said the moderniza-


tion work will take place over the next four to five years and will allow the company to leverage more advanced casting designs and manufacturing technologies when completed. The investment follows the $125


million Waterloo Works redevelop- ment plan Deere announced in 2000 that was intended to streamline both its drivetrain and tractor manufactur- ing operations and the $187 million in investments Deere announced in 2008


At CastExpo’10 in Orlando in March,


the Cast Metals Institute (CMI) pre- sented its Michael J. Trzecinski CMI Award to Walter Villers, presi- dent, Moraine Valley Engineering Corp., Palos Hills, Ill., for his contribution to CMI as an instructor and faculty member. Villers has served as profes-


Walter Villers


sor of engineering at Moraine Valley Community College, Palos Hills, Ill., and instructor at Northern Illinois Univ., Dekalb, Ill. He is CMI’s primary instructor in the areas of basic blueprint reading and geomet- ric dimensioning and tolerancing. CMI also inducted


its new officers and two incoming direc- tors at CastExpo’10. The new CMI chair- man is Stephen Sauer, corporate metallurgist and tech sales, Carpenter Brothers Inc., Milwaukee. Timothy Purcell, technical sales representative, Por- ter Warner, Arlington, Texas, is the vice chair- man, and Kelley Kerns, technical manager, Fairmount Minerals, Benton Harbor, Mich.,


Stephen Sauer Timothy Purcell July/August 2010


to increase the manufacturing capacity of the Waterloo Works. “The enhancement of our [met-


alcasting] operations follows recent investments in the Waterloo Works to improve manufacturing capacity and flexibility,” said David Everitt, president of the worldwide agriculture and turf division for North America, Asia, Australia, Sub-Saharan and South Africa, and global tractor and turf products. “This integrated ap- proach at John Deere in the design and manufacturing of large row crop and four-wheeled-drive tractors is a competitive advantage.”


(continued on page 12) CMI Awards Villers, Inducts Directors


is the immediate past chairman. The current class of


CMI directors are: • Jerry Call, execu- tive vice president, American Foundry Society, Schaum- burg, Ill.;


Kelley Kerns


• Kevin R. Crawford, president, Cast- ing Concepts LLC, Chelsea, Ala.;


• Eric Hasselmann, vice president of sales and marketing, Century Pacific Foundry Ltd., Surrey, British Colum- bia, Canada;


• Henry W. Lodge, president, Lodge Manufacturing Co., South Pitts- burg, Tenn.;


• Timothy G. McMillin, director of mar- keting & product development, Fair- mount Minerals Ltd., Chardon, Ohio;


• Leigh Omer, foundry manager, Fresno Valves & Castings Inc., Selma, Calif.;


• Stephen H. Reynolds, foundry gen- eral manager, Lufkin Industries Inc., Lufkin, Texas;


• Michael L. Selz, sales manager com- mercial casting, Charlotte Pipe & Foundry Co., Charlotte, N.C.;


• Jeff Sorenson, foundry manager, Nep- tune Technology Group, Tallassee, Ala.;


• Jerry Thiel (newly inducted), profes- sor, Univ. of Northern Iowa Metal Casting Center, Cedar Falls, Iowa;


• Wil Tinker (newly inducted), presi- dent, Tinker Omega Mfg., Spring- field, Ohio.


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