INDUSTRY NEWS Personals U.S. Pipe and Foundry Co., Birming-
ham, Ala., has named Paul Ciolino its new president. He will replace Raymond Torok, who is retiring from the position.
Neenah Enterprises Inc., Neenah,
Wis., has installed a new executive management team upon its emer- gence from bankruptcy. Richard Caruso has been made the company’s acting chief executive officer, and Brent Johnson will serve as acting chief financial officer.
Humberto Juarez has joined Wheelabrator Group, LaGrange, Ga.,
Industry Faces
ThyssenKrupp Waupaca CEO Gary Gigante: We Would Be the 11th Gigante began his career in 1978 at
Gary Gigante wears a lot of hats.
Not only is he president and chief operating officer (COO) of the largest independent metalcasting company in North America, ThyssenKrupp Waupaca (TKW), Waupaca, Wis., he also has been functioning as chief executive officer (CEO) for the past several years. That means that in addition to managing the sales and human resources of TKW, he’s also inti- mately involved in the day-to-day operations of its six metalcasting facilities. And it also means he knows as well as anyone just how large the company is. “If TKW was a country, we largest iron pro-
would be the 11th
ducing country in the world,” he said in a recent interview. TKW produces 1.4 million met-
ric tons of ferrous metal castings per year. The beneficiaries of that copious production primarily are the transportation, construction, agriculture and industrial markets. Four of TKW’s six plants are located in Wisconsin, one is in Indiana, and the other, which has been temporarily idled, is in Tennessee.
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Waukesha Foundry as a metallurgist. In 1981, he accepted the position of metallurgist at Waupaca Foundry and went on to hold several other posi- tions with the company, including plant manager and vice president of
Largest Casting Country
operations. He was named president and COO of TKW in 2004, and added the position of CEO in 2007. “My entire career has been on the operations side,” he said. Gigante says the past several years
have been the hardest in his career. TKW underwent a financial restruc- turing several years ago, and op- erations have been strained since. “Most of my career has been spent building new plants, not shutting plants down,” he said. Fortunately, Gigante sees a
light at the end of the tunnel. He believes the Tennessee plant will be reopened in the next year to year and a half. “Our business has rebounded
Gigante said the past several years have been the hardest in his 32-year career.
in the last four to six months,” he said. “We are operating at about 90% capacity for gray iron and around 100% for ductile in the five [open] plants. That’s a significant change, even with all the nega- tive economic news that we hear daily about the recovery stalling. I haven’t seen that with our or- der log, so the remainder of this year it appears the business will remain the same.”
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as regional manager in Mexico for Wheelabrator Plus.
MC Obituaries Roy Kress, Hoover, Ala., died May
22. He was 85. Kress worked for 40 years in the casting industry. A metal- lurgical engineering graduate of the Univ. of Pittsburgh, he worked for Blaw-Knox Corp., Valley Mold & Iron, Cooper Alloy Corp. and Shellcast Corp. He was a longtime American Foundry Society (AFS) member and was a past president of the Pittsburgh Chapter.
John Lunn, Edmonton, Alberta,
Canada, died July 24. He was 68. Lunn was born in Leigh, England, where he served his patternmaking apprentice- ship. He immigrated to Canada in 1965 to work at Dominion Bridge Foundry, Edmonton, working in sales and as fa- cility manager. In 1978, he co-founded Wesmat Supplies and acted as president and general manager until his retirement in 2005. An AFS member since 1965, Lunn served as chairman of the Prairie Chapter, chaired AFS regional confer- ences in Alberta and gathered historical information on Alberta casting facilities for the book Fire in the Blood.
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