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few years ago, Mark Preuss fielded a call from a potential cus-
tomer about a new product he was launching. The customer was in a bind. Originally, the design called for a four-piece assembly, but that piece was proving to not be strong enough. Could Production Castings, Fenton, Missouri, supply a metal part quickly? And by the way, they want fewer than 2,000 die castings that year. “After he contacted me, we rede-
signed the piece for his whole product line to make it durable and withstand the rigorous tests the product had to pass,” said Preuss, sales engineer, Production Castings. “Our design engineer sat with the customer and his people, and as they are talking on that first phone call, he is starting on the design.”
Despite the low volume, Produc-
tion Castings gave the customer its full support in bringing the design to fruition. Te result was a product that surpassed all requirements and provided value to the customer who became an industry leader in quality.
For nearly 40 years, Production Castings has been providing its customers value
added services that have kept them coming back to the aluminum and zinc diecaster time and again for product solutions.
Te product ended up so successful, its volumes are now in the hundreds of thousands per year “Tis customer needed help and
was looking for a way out,” Preuss said. “Our company philosophy is to treat all customers equally. You never know when your next home run is going to be hit.” For nearly 40 years, Produc-
tion Castings has been providing its customers value added services that have kept them coming back to the aluminum and zinc diecaster time and again for product solutions. Today, it is a 150-employee business that per- forms tooling design and manufacture, diecasting, machining, powder coating
and warehousing in-house, plus it contracts for plating and other post processing operations. “Our forte is to say we can take
a part from start to finish,” said Al Loeffelman, president, Production Castings. “We can build the tooling, run the part, machine the part, powder coat it, finish it any which way.” With a strong record of customer
service and value added services, Production Castings has been named Modern Casting magazine Metalcaster of the Year.
Tooling as Value Added One of the key advantages Produc-
tion Castings offers is that it designs
Production Castings brought powder coating in-house to its Fenton, Missouri, plant in the 1990s, and is one example of value-added services the diecaster offers. June 2016 MODERN CASTING | 19
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