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Quaker City Castings Acquires Additional Building Quaker City Castings, Salem, Ohio,


recently acquired an additional 51,000 sq. ft. of industrial space adjacent to its current facility in Salem, Ohio. “Te new space will give us some


breathing room and let us actually expand and not just reconfigure our existing floor plan,” said Joe Korff,


president of Quaker City Castings. Quaker City Castings’ current


expansion plans include adding a sand reclamation unit, as well as expanding various casting processing operations and quality control. Te company’s new space consists of a single building on a site formerly owned by Colfor


Manufacturing, a subsidiary of Ameri- can Axle & Manufacturing, Detroit. “We have to do some work on the building before we can move in, but we expect to be bringing equipment and people into the new space within the next 8 to 12 months,” Korff said. Quaker City Castings is an iron and steel plant producing castings up to several thousand pounds for a variety of markets, including valve and pump, power generation, oil-field and heavy construction equipment. Te company also has a centrifugal casting opera- tion that produces ring products and automotive cylinder liners.


Toyota Adding Casting Lines to Joint Venture in India


Toyota Motor Corp., Toyota City,


Japan, announced it plans to install aluminum casting and machining lines at its auto parts manufacturing joint venture Toyota Kirloskar Auto Parts Pvt Ltd, Bidadi, India. The lines, expected to be op-


erational by early 2014, are to be installed at the Indian division’s new engine plant, which is scheduled to start operations in the Fall of 2012. The installation will require an additional investment of approxi- mately $185 million, as well as the hiring of new employees. The India-based manufacturing


facility produces manual transmis- sions for IMV2 series vehicles produced in India, Thailand and Argentina. In addition to engines, TKAP is scheduled to start produc- ing transmissions in early 2013. Exports of the transmissions are also planned. According to a press release, Toyota intends to add the casting and ma- chining capacity in response to higher demand than expected for several models: the Innova, the Fortuner and the made-for-India Etios sedan and Etios Liva hatchback.


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