INDUSTRY news
Nanshan America to Launch Direct Chill Casting Operation Nanshan America Co. Ltd.,
Once the extrusion plant is up and
Chicago, has begun construction on a new manufacturing facility in Lafayette, Ind., that will include direct chill casting capability. T e company, a division of the China-based Shandong Nanshan Aluminum Co. Ltd., expects to spend more than $100 million on the 700,000-sq.-ft. manufacturing campus. Construction is underway on an extrusion facility that will be the primary division of the new location.
running in the next several months, the company will begin construction on its direct chill casting facility. T e casting plant initially will be capable of producing 50,000 tons of aluminum per year. Eventually, Nanshan America expects to add enough melting capability to increase production to 100,000 tons of castings annually. T e Lafayette plant will be
the Nanshan Group’s fi rst U.S. manufacturing site and will be known
Metalcaster Aarrowcast to Make Capital Expansion
Aarrowcast Inc., Shawano, Wis., has begun an expansion it expects will increase its capacity by 20%. T e company said additions to its melting and blasting operations, combined with robotic grinding,
are underway. Permitting has been received, and the installations should be complete in the second quarter of 2013. Aarrowcast is owned by J H
Whitney Co., New Canaan, Conn., and has current sales of more than $125
million. T e green sand caster produces iron castings on two automated molding lines for customers in the agriculture and construction equipment, commercial engine, solar and wind energy, and heavy truck markets.
as Nanshan America Advanced Aluminum Technologies. T e plant employed 30 at last count but is expected to provide about 150 jobs when it reaches full production. “T e Nanshan facility in Lafayette
will make extrusions used in the mass transportation, automotive, distribution, industrial and electrical industries…[as well as] train-body material for the high-speed rail industry,” said Lijun Du, president of Nanshan America.
14 | METAL CASTING DESIGN & PURCHASING | Jul/Aug 2012
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