INDUSTRY news
Bremer Manufacturing Marking 75 Years With Expansion Bremer Manufacturing Co.,
Elkhart Lake, Wis., announced it is planning a capacity increase in 2012 in conjunction with its 75th
year in the
metalcasting industry. According to a company statement, the expansion will focus on increasing nobake molding capacity and give the nonferrous metalcasting facility the ability to make larger green sand castings. A representative of the company declined to off er more information at this time. In its statement, Bremer indicated
the company was started by Harry Bremer in 1937 with a line of aluminum sand cast grocer scoops. Bremer believed aluminum casting demand would outpace iron casting demand in the long-term. Today, the company provides complex aluminum sand castings for numerous end-use industries, including small/large
Bremen Castings Grant Helps Win Clean Air Award
As a result of plans to install new melting furnaces, Bremen Castings Inc., Bremen, Ind., was one of three recipients of a clean air award given by local commerce groups. Bremen won a grant of $100,000
from the Indiana Department of Environmental Management in late 2011 and will use the funding to install furnaces as part of a $3.4 million project to expand its iron melting operations. Bremen said at the time of the grant the project would create 36 new jobs and recycle an additional 12,000 tons of steel annually. T e Michiana Area Council of
Government and Northern Indiana Public Service Company give their “Partners for Clean Air Award” annually based on energy savings reported in their Recycling Promotion and Assistance Fund Recycling Market Development Grant. Bremen is a metalcasting and
machine shop producing gray and ductile iron castings for customers in a variety of industries.
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A Bremer spokesperson said the company is planning improvements to its green sand and nobake lines.
engine, lighting, electrical generation, transportation, construction, industrial machinery, small/large appliance and food processing. After moving its operation from
Milwaukee in the late 1960s to Elkhart Lake, Bremer said it has invested in state of the art facilities and technologies. T e company said its latest expansion is in line with that policy.
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