Power Technologies, the casting facil- ity will be involved in producing key components for Navistar’s EGR valve. “Looking at our EGR valve, one
of the most important components is a casting,” said Kashanipour, who is president of Pure Power Technologies in addition to his purchasing role at Navistar. “Pure Power Technologies is a components company that ser- vices [Navistar], as well as others. But it is focused on technical systems,
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and castings really fall into that.” Now known as Pure Power Met- alcastings Group, the Waukesha plant’s new role is to produce complex castings for Navistar, de- velop casting business servicing non-
Navistar customers, and maintain casting process knowledge within its parent company. “What we really want, that is going
to be missing in this country in fi ve years, is the expertise of manufacturing and casting design engineers,” Kasha- nipour said. “We are going to know how to make castings. Because without castings, we can’t build a truck. That skill set is going to be a competitive advantage for us.”
Shifting Strategy In 2003, Navistar’s casting facility in
Waukesha, Wis., was named the Metal- caster of the Year by MODERN CAST- ING magazine and awarded the Plant Engineering Award by the American Foundry Society for developing a new mold production and delivery system that allowed the facility to produce ductile iron V-8 and V-6 bedplates for International Truck and Engine (a division of Navistar). But in 2009, a change in International’s needs put
Pure Power Metalcastings Group performs dimensional checks on a casting with a coordinate measuring machine.
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