INDUSTRY NEWS
Blackhawk Increasing Capacity in Mexico Blackhawk de Mexico,
Monterrey, will increase its capacity 50% with upgrades expected to be complete by late 2013, according to CEO Patricio Gil. Te facility will install a nobake molding line and more melting capacity, increasing its product size range to 5 to 600 lbs. All the engineering is
being developed by GEM- CO, the melting equipment will be supplied by Induc- totherm and the molding line and sand system will be from IMF. Blackhawk is focused on
PCC Buys Synchronous Precision Castparts Corp., Portland,
gray and ductile iron castings mainly for the heavy truck and farm equipment industries. Currently, the facility has a capacity of 25,000 met-
Blackhawk is adding no-bake molding and melting capacity.
ric tons per year operating three green sand match plate molding lines with coreless induction melting.
Ore., has agreed to acquire Synchro- nous Aerospace Group (Synchronous), Prescott, Ariz., a build-to-print supplier of complex mechanical assemblies for commercial aerospace and defense markets. Its core capabilities include gantry machining, hard-metal machin- ing, high-speed machining, turning, sheet-metal forming, and metal and composite bonding. “Teir gantry capabilities will enable us to manufacture larger components and to machine as many as four to five parts simultaneously,” said Mark Donegan, chairman and CEO. Precision Castparts Corp. is a global manufacturer serving the aerospace, power, and general in- dustrial markets. Synchronous has approximately 690 employees in four U.S. locations.
12 | MODERN CASTING January 2013
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