INDUSTRY NEWS North America
Chrysler’s Etobicoke Casting Adding New Furnaces Chrysler’s Etobicoke Casting Plant,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, has placed an order for several new melting and pouring furnaces to feed its new alu- minum crossmember casting operation.
Chrysler announced last August
it would invest $27.2 million in the 300,000-sq.-ft. Etobicoke diecasting facil- ity to produce front and rear crossmem- bers (structural components in vehicle
suspension systems that transfer and filter road loads from control arms to vehicle bodies) for future Chrysler vehicles start- ing in the third quarter of 2011. The pouring furnaces will be pro-
vided by Støtek Danmark ApS, Vojens, Denmark, and Modern Equipment Co. Inc., Port Washington, Wis., will build two large tower furnaces under a de- sign license to Støtek. Modern also will supply material handling and control systems to provide a constant supply of raw metal to the furnaces. Modern Equipment produces alumi-
num melting furnaces. ladles and other molten metal handling systems; Støtek makes electric resistance and fossil fueled furnaces for melting, holding and pouring aluminum. The Etobicoke contract is the first major contract the two companies have sold and will build under the license agreement they signed in 2010.
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Diecaster Production Castings Completing Latest in Upgrade Series Production Castings, Fenton, Mo.,
reports it is installing an air purification system on the heels of a tool room expansion and environmental improve- ments completed last year. According to the company’s in-
house newsletter, Production Castings contracted with Carter Clean Air, St. Louis, Mo., to install the air purification system. The company expects the air purifiers to collect dust, smoke and other airborne particulates with a 95% efficient, two-stage filtration system, recycling the air in the plant once every six minutes. Last December, Production Castings
added 2,200 sq. ft. to its tool and die shop. “This expansion will allow us to
improve work flows and increase effi- ciency,” said Mark Preuss, sales engineer. The expansion included a new CAD/
CAM engineering office and yielded the space necessary to install a new machining center. During the expan-
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