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Chrysler’s Third Round of Investments in Kokomo Is Biggest Yet Chrysler Group LLC, Auburn Hills, Mich., confi rmed it plans to invest $843


million in its transmission manufacturing plants in Kokomo, Ind., including the Kokomo Casting Plant. The company said the investment, pending tax abatement approval by the city of Kokomo, would go towards production of a new front-wheel drive automatic transmission. The investment would fund the installation of equipment and special tooling to modernize the Kokomo facilities and help retain nearly 2,250 jobs.


Esco to Change Australian Strategy With Purchase of Austcast


moderncasting.com Where It’s At


Wherever you fi nd


the cast metal Where It’s At sign (right) in this issue, access additional content on the web at www.moderncasting.com or the indi- cated website:


• Table of Contents: Web-only article on modeling high aluminum steel castings.


• “Engineering Is King at Carley Foundry”: Additional photos of the metalcasting facility.


• “Casting Sales to Increase as Economy Recovers”: Last year’s forecast available for comparison with the current forecast.


• “Choosing Blast Media”: Audiocast with an expert in the field of blast media.


Question of the Month The November web poll asked:


Esco casts wear parts for the mining and heavy construction industries, among others.


Wear parts maker Esco Corp., Portland, Ore., announced it has expanded its metalcasting capacity with the purchase of Austcast Pty. Ltd., Brisbane, Australia, and its subsidiary Newlcast, Dunedin, New Zealand. Esco currently sells crusher wear-parts, bi-metallic buttons, blocks, tooth systems and truck bodies in Australia but supplies the rest of its products to the region through a distribution deal with Bradken Ltd. Esco indicated in its recent announcement it will let that agreement expire in June 2011 and supply the market directly.


,” . Product Innovations


Quality Castings Improves Melt Quality With SPAL Argon Shielding—Quality Castings, Waukesha, Wis., was sending too much metal out for scrap recycling, so it installed SPAL argon shielding technology from Air Liquide, Houston, Texas.


Combined Melting, Holding Furnace Yields Energy Savings—A compact furnace developed by Nippon Crucible Co., Tokyo, combines the features of a tower melting furnace and crucible holding furnace for effi cient continuous aluminum melting and holding.


“Our plan is to grow 10% a year. Any more and we can’t service customers properly. Much less, and employees won’t see room for advancement.”—Mike Carley, Carley Foundry


Worth Repeating MODERN CASTING / January 2011 3


How do you expect the Republican success in the mid-term elections to affect metalcasters?


Improve Market


Conditions 63.8%


Have No Effect 25.5% 10.6%


Hurt Market Conditions


This month’s question is available at www.moderncasting.com.


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