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Production Castings, Fenton, Mo.,
reports it is installing an air purification system on the heels of a tool room ex- pansion 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, the company added 2,200 sq. ft. to its tool and die shop.
Diecaster Production Castings Completing Latest in Upgrade Series “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 expansion, both the new machine and the company’s existing machining cen- ter were fitted with new 24-in. isolation pads intended to increase accuracy. Production Castings installed new high-efficiency lighting in its tool room and mold-change room in Novem- ber 2010. According to the company newsletter, the full spectrum lighting improves visual acuity by 31% and
will reduce energy consumption by as much as 35%. In response to its environmental
efforts, the diecaster has been certi- fied in the U.S. Department of En- ergy’s Save Energy Now program and implemented several changes recom- mended by the Missouri Industrial Assessment Center, which audited the plant as part of the program. “Our certification recognizes our
plant’s exemplary participation in en- ergy savings goals, assessments and implementation,” Preuss said. “The program initiative is dedicated to help- ing U.S. industry reduce fossil energy use and carbon emissions.”
METAL $18.1 Million Expansion Planned at Bradken’s Amite Plant (continued from page 8)
easier due to our existing excellent workforce base and the assistance
and benefits provided by the Louisi- ana Department of Economic Devel- opment,” said Tom Armstrong, presi-
dent and chief operating officer of Bradken’s North American division. The expansion, which will ap-
proximately double the Amite facil- ity’s molding capacity and includes a 160-ft. extension of the existing molding/coremaking area, is ex- pected to be completed in about 18 months. Once complete and op- erational, the facility is expected to employ approximately 350. “We need to expand our capacity
to meet the long-term demand of our customers and the growing markets they serve, and [the Amite facility] is pleased to have the opportunity to undertake such a significant ex- pansion to our operations,” said Kevin McDermed, president of the industrial division of Bradken’s North American operations. Bradken is a supplier of con-
sumable and capital products. The company employs more than 4,800 and operates 28 manufacturing and service facilities in Australia, New Zealand, the U.S., Canada, China and the U.K. “This strategic investment will
provide added flexibility between our North American manufacturing facili- ties and, through transfer of product, enable us to manufacture Bradken wear products at other…facilities,” Armstrong said.
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