INDUSTRY NEWS North America Diecaster Dynacast to Close Montreal Facility
Dynacast, Charlotte, N.C., recently announced it will permanently close its Montreal zinc diecasting plant over the next four to six months. According to a company press
release, the closing is intended to alter Dynacast’s global manufacturing footprint to meet customer demand. The company indicated it reevaluated its global plant capacities and deter- mined the 101,000-sq.-ft. Montreal
plant should be shut down. “We have too much capacity in North America,” said Simon Newman, chief executive officer. “We had to make some difficult decisions to match our produc- tion capabilities and the utilization of our facilities with customer demand.” Dynacast said in the press release it
recently opened a 64,500-sq.-ft. plant in Dongguan, China. “Our Dongguan plant will focus on
Consolidated Casting Adds Burnout, Finishing Equipment Consolidated Casting Corp. (CCC), Hutchins, Texas, recently invested in a new burnout oven and lathe. The manufacturer of investment
producing aluminum and conventional zinc parts for customers in the top three industrial markets in the area— automotive, consumer electronics and telecommunications,” Newman said. Dynacast maintains facilities in North
America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region. The company supplies products to the automotive, healthcare, telecom- munications and consumer electronics markets, among others.
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castings said in a press release it purchased and installed the burnout/ preheat furnace to improve the quality of its molds and ultimately its cast- ings. The company expects the 40-ft. furnace to increase its capacity by more than 50% and provide cost sav- ings through improved fuel efficiency and productivity.
CCC added the new lathe with mill-
ing and y-axis capabilities to comple- ment its existing machine shop, which now includes 35 CNC machines and other conventional machine tools. CCC produces castings and assem-
blies for commercial and industrial applications and for the industrial gas turbine industry.
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L A Aluminum Wins New Contracts, Adds Equipment (continued from page 10)
new casting and machining 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 fittings for towable tanks that are used to transport water and fuel to military soldiers in the field. 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 new machining center in January 2009. “Military contracts are responsible
for the exponential growth of L A Aluminum in the last two years,” Richter said. “The new machines will be part of flexible lean cells, which will better match the complexity of castings going through the machine
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shop on a daily basis. We will have flexible cells where we can run multiple operations in a variety of configurations.” L A Aluminum is a permanent mold aluminum metalcasting facility and machine shop making castings primar- ily for the OEM market. According to Richter, the company has made castings for the military since it began doing business, but it also produces parts for the wind power, nuclear energy and dental equipment markets.
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Quality Certifications The following metalcasters have
passed recent certification or surveil- lance audits:
Florida Machine and Casting Co.,
West Palm Beach, Fla. (ISO 9001:2008); Le Claire Manufacturing Co., Bet-
tendorf, Iowa (ISO 9001:2000). MC MODERN CASTING / February 2010
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