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are a few of the findings: • Of the Canadian plants operating, the majority (47%) are in Ontario.


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• The largest metalcaster in Canada employs 900. More than half (52%) of Canadian facilities employ 60 or more workers.


• Only 15% of the Canadian facilities (26) were willing to divulge their sales information. Almost all of them (25) said they took in more than $1 million annually. Seventeen of them said they made more than $5 million.


• Canadian metalcasters make bigger castings than U.S.-based operations. Out of 41 companies that answered the question, 24 (58.5%) reported an


reported between 1-999 employees, 98% employed fewer than 500.


Breakdown by Sales Sales dollars per year were reported


by only 51% of respondents (842). About 20% of the respondents reported fewer than $1 million in sales; 50.4% reported sales equal to or more than $1 million and less than $10 million. The remainder (29.3%) reported revenues equal to or greater than $10 million. A large number of facilities (18.3%) reported sales in excess of $20 million. The average sales, correcting for outli- ers, was $23,281,719.


Breakdown by Weight The majority of respondents (51.7%)


reported an average casting weight of ounces to 19 lbs. The largest average casting weight reported was 15,000 lbs. Discarding the extremes, the average casting weight poured across all facili- ties was 102 lbs. The median average casting weight was 15.5 lbs.


Breakdown by Average Production Run


The majority of respondents (61.4%)


tally their average production run be- tween 1-299 pieces. Almost 25% of the respondents call their sweet-spot 1-50 pieces. About 22% reported average runs between 1,000 and 200,000 (the largest in the sample). Throwing out the highs and the lows, the average production


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average casting weight at or above 20 lbs.


n addition to the U.S., the MOD- ERN CASTING survey reached 172 Canadian metalcasters. Following


• Similarly to U.S.-based companies, the majority (57.7%) of Canadian metalcasters produces on average production runs of 1-299 pieces.


• Canada’s metalcasters pour similar materials to those in the U.S., with 45.9% pouring aluminum, 33.1% pouring iron and 22.7% pouring steel.


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