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Aerocast Expands Engineering, Casting Capabilities, Wins New Business Aerocast Inc., Mesa, Ariz., which


recently expanded its engineer- ing facilities and purchased a sand reclaimer for its metalcasting plant, announced it has won a contract to


produce two new magnesium parts for Hamilton Sundstrand, Hartford, Conn. Hamilton Sundstrand will use the two castings to form pressure control


housings for integrated drive genera- tors used on the engines of Boeing 737 and Airbus A320/A330 aircraft. Boeing and Airbus use these parts for new aircraft and as replacements for existing aircraft. Aerocast said in March it had


relocated its engineering offices to a 60%-larger facility in response to growth over the past two years. Te company said the new facility in- cludes a “quality clinic,” equipped with measuring devices including statisti- cal tools and trained technical staff to evaluate process variations and any non-conforming products, to help reduce its defect rates. “Te overall effect of the qual-


ity clinic is to ensure that Aerocast’s customers will continue to receive high quality parts, on time, while driving down our costs, which in turn will improve margins,” said Bob Jamieson, the company’s president. Also in March, Aerocast acquired and installed a sand reclaimer at its Nogales, Ariz., metalcasting plant. “We expect [the sand reclaimer] will reduce our sand costs by up to 70%,” Jamieson said. Aerocast’s sand casting facility


produces aluminum and magnesium castings primarily for aerospace customers, including Honeywell Aerospace, Sikorsky Aircraft and Shi- madzu Precision Instruments.


QUALITY CERTIFICATIONS Te following metalcasting organizations have passed a recent


certification audit: Premier Aluminum, Racine, Wis. (ISO 9001:2008);


Sloan Valve Co.; Augusta, Ark. (ISO 9001:2008)


Temperform Corp., Novi, Mich. (ISO 9001:2008).


10 | MODERN CASTING May 2011


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