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Investment Casting Facility Innovative Metal Components Launching in Texas
The new company has received purchase orders from at least three customers.
A group of industry investors has begun construction on
a greenfield investment casting plant in Lufkin, Texas, ac- cording to a spokesperson for the new company. The company, Innovative Metal Components, is still in the construction phase but already has completed several prototype jobs for valve and pharmaceutical customers. In addition to aluminum and steel investment castings, the company provides some sand cast components. Samantha Robinson, the startup’s marketing and sales
manager, said Innovative Metal will focus on investment cast aeronautical structural components when full produc- tion 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 was ex- pected by March 1. “We’re predominantly investment casting, particularly for
our target market, 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 in- centives from 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 already received [purchase order’s] from three or four companies.”
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