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Investment Casting Facility Innovative Metal Components Launching in Texas (continued from page 8)


novative Metal will focus on investment cast aeronautical structural components when full production starts. The facility will sit on 30,000 sq. ft. and be capable of producing parts up to 200 lbs. when complete. Innovative Metal also will offer in-house machining and testing. Robinson said the first production pour is expected by March 1. “We’re predominantly investment


casting, particularly for our target mar- ket, but to get started, we will diversify into other markets, and that’s where the sand casting comes in,” Robinson said. Innovative Metal is the first tenant


in a new industrial park in Lufkin. The company secured financing from several private investors and has received numerous incentives from


Wescast to Expand Global Capabilities


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U.S., Germany, Japan and China, and it has sales and technical design repre- sentation in the U.K. and France. The company indicated the recent expan- sions are intended to build on its existing strategy of maintaining a presence in all the geographic regions supported by its business units.


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Revstone Adds Another Diecaster to Stable of Casting Plants


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capabilities in San Luis Potosi. “With the addition of these two plants,


we are continuing to live up to our com- mitment to our customers to be a reliable supplier of a wide range of engineered solutions on a global level,” said Robert Carney, president of Revstone Mexico. Revstone, which primarily produces


parts for the transportation markets, proj- ects more than $1 billion in revenues in 2011. The company operates manufactur- ing facilities in more than 60 locations in North and Central America and indicated it plans to expand further in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.


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INDUSTRY NEWS


The new company has received purchase orders from at least three customers.


the city of Lufkin to start up. “We have had a very good reaction and we are getting ready to enter the


market,” Robinson said. “We have al- ready received [purchase order’s] from three or four companies.”


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