INDUSTRY news
Spartan Light Metal Receives Toyota Quality Recognition
Toyota Mo- tor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (TEMA) recognized Spartan Light Metal Products, St. Louis, a supplier of aluminum and magnesium custom diecasting, as an “Excellent Qual- ity Performance Award” winner in March. Spartan was
one of 17 Toyota suppliers to receive this award, and one of only three wholly U.S.-based companies to receive it. Spartan’s Hannibal, Mo., plant also recently distinguished it- self as it marked more than six years without a lost time accident. “Toyota works closely with
Pictured are (left to right): Nobuhisa (Noby) Tanaka, executive advisor, purchasing & SED, Toyota; Chris Nielsen, senior vice president, Toyota; Michael White, plant manager, Spartan Hannibal, Mo.; Bruce Breitzman, COO, Spartan; Osamu “Simon” Nagata, president & CEO, Toyota; and Robert Young, vice president, purchasing, Toyota.
“We are pleased to award those in our supply base who go above and beyond. This event empha- sizes our mutual commitment with supplier partners to continuously improve to build ‘always better cars’ in North America.” Spartan, a
each supplier partner to build our vehicles to the high-quality, safety and reliability standards our cus- tomers expect,” said Robert Young, TEMA’s purchasing vice president.
Avalon Precision Casting Acquires Precision Metalsmiths
Avalon Precision Casting, Cleve-
land, has completed its acquisition of nearby Precision Metalsmiths Inc. (PMI). Additional production facilities are located in Jackson and Markesan, Wis. Terms of the transac- tion were not disclosed. PMI manufactures small, thin-
walled investment castings ranging from fractions of an ounce to over 20 lbs. in ferrous and nonferrous alloys using traditional shelling methods and a solid mold process. With proprietary casting technologies and almost 70 years of specialized engineering ex- pertise, the company serves aerospace customers as well as general industry. Avalon Precision Castings grew
from a merger of Avalon Castings, Cleveland, and Craft Cast Company, Jackson, Wis., to provide precision- cast parts up to 100 lbs. Avalon serves
OEM customers in the general indus- trial, pump and valve, oil and gas, food and dairy, military and capital equip- ment industries with value-added ser- vices including a dedicated in-house machine shop and tooling operation. Doug Ciabotti, CEO of Avalon,
leads the newly combined business. T e combined company will oper- ate four advanced manufacturing facilities in Ohio and Wisconsin, all featuring state-of-the-art automa- tion and robotics to produce precision castings from more than 200 diff erent ferrous and nonferrous alloys. Com- bined company certifi cations include ISO 9001:2008, PED, NADCAP and ITAR. Together, the combined company will represent one of the largest enterprises in the commercial/ industrial/aerospace segment of the investment casting industry.
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family-owned business, has been a specialist in de- signing, develop- ing, validating and producing diecast- ings as well as machining services and component assemblies for
more than 50 years. The company has three manufac-
turing facilities and offices in St. Louis, Detroit, Tokyo and Landstuhl, Germany.
Astech Adds Nobake Automation
Astech Inc., Vassar, Mich.,
has installed an automated carousel molding line and a new core blower from Palmer Manu- facturing & Supply. Astech specializes in the
production of low to mid-volume iron and steel castings, including austenitic manganese steel for wear resistant applications. In 2012, Astech expanded its verti- cally integrated foundry to 75,000 sq. ft. Its castings are used in the power, mining, pulp and paper, automotive, agriculture, steel processing, asphalt and cement industries. The newly installed eight-sta-
tion carousel line is dedicated to the production of nobake molds and can accommodate a maxi- mum part weight of 900 lbs.
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