industry news/行業新聞
Grenville Castings Purchased by Cosma International Cosma国际购买了Grenville铸造公司
Automotive parts manufacturer Cosma International,
Brampton, Ontario, Canada, has acquired aluminum per- manent mold caster Grenville Castings Ltd., Smiths Falls, Ontario, Canada. Grenville Castings is a supplier of structural castings to the automotive, heavy truck and recreational mar- kets. According to a press release issued by Cosma, the company was purchased for its focus on niche production and development of complex castings, including thin wall and hollow parts produced in the low pressure permanent mold process. The financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. A supplier of parts manufactured through various
metal forming processes, Cosma is a wholly owned oper- ating unit of Magna International Inc., Aurora, Ontario, Canada. The company believes the acquisition will help it become a leading global manufacturer of aluminum structural castings in all major geographic markets and support its launch of an automotive chassis program scheduled to start production in 2014. “Tis acquisition further enables Cosma to support our
customers with lightweight solutions through the latest technologies and proven manufacturing excellence,” said Horst Prelog, Cosma president. “Grenville’s expertise in the area of structural castings enhances our already diverse range of metal forming solutions.” Cosma has 47 manufacturing facilities and 25 product
development and engineering centers worldwide. Magna employs approximately 104,000 in 269 manufacturing operations and 84 product development, engineering and sales centers in 26 countries. ■
总部位于加拿大安大略省Branmpton的汽车零件制 造商Cosma国际已经收购了位于安大略省Smiths Falls 的铝合金金属型铸造商Grenville铸造公司。 Grenville公司是汽车、重型卡车和娱乐市场用结构 铸件供应商。根据Cosma发布的资料，该公司被收购 用于专著niche生产和复杂铸件的开发，包括用低压金 属型铸造薄壁和中空零件。该公司没有公布收购的财务 细节。
Cosma是各种金属成形零件供应商，该公司是位于 加拿大安大略省Aurora的Magna国际公司的所属的工 作部门。该公司相信该收购将帮助自身在全球市场成为 铝合金结构铸件制造的领导者，并能推动发动汽车底盘 项目在2014年投产。 Cosma 总裁Horst Prelog说：“该收购将使Cosma 通过最新的制造技术为我们的客户提供轻量化解决方 案。Grenville拥有的结构铸件方面的专业知识将强化我 们已经多样化的金属加工。“
Cosma在全球有47个制造厂和25个产品开发和工 程中心。Magna在分布于26个国家的269个制造中 心和84个产品开发中心、工程中心和销售中心雇佣 104,000人。■
NovaCast Foundry Solutions Leaves Parent Company NovaCast铸造技术公司脱离了母公司
NovaCast Foundry Solutions AB, Ronneby, Sweden,
has broken from its parent company and is now owned and operated by its existing management team. Formerly part of the NovaCast Technologies group,
NovaCast Foundry became an independent company oper- ating under the name NovaCast Systems AB on April 13. Te company’s management is the new owner. According to a press release issued by the company,
NovaCast Systems will continue operations from its head office in Ronneby and acquire 100% of the shares in Nova- Cast Solutions USA Inc., Naperville, Ill., U.S. NovaCast Systems will continue the business of
selling metalcasting engineering software applications together with necessary hardware solutions, imple- mentation, support and assistance, as well as long term service contracts. ■
总部位于瑞典Ronneby的NovaCast铸造技术公司， 已经脱离了母公司，归现在的管理团队所有和运营。 NovaCast铸造公司以前是NovaCast科技集团的一 部分，4月13日改名为NovaCast Systems AB公司，独 立运行。新的所有者是公司的管理者。
根据该公司发布会上发表的消息，该公司将继续在它
原来Ronneby总部运营，并得到了总部位于美国伊利诺 伊州Naperville 的NovaCAst技术公司（美国）100% 的股份。 NovaCast Systems AB公司将继续铸造工程模拟软 件的销售业务以及核心的硬件解决方案、实施、技术支 持、服务以及长期的技术服务合同。 ■
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