focused on components rang- ing anywhere from 1-1,000 lbs. As the company contin- ued to diversify its capabilities, it grew into a single company that operated as two separate casting facilities. Te specialty castings division had green sand line and nobake molding lines, while the large castings division had a single nobake molding line. Te two opera- tions shared heat treat services, pattern services and maintenance services, but had separate molding, melting and
handling as castings moved between departments. Tese problems, in addition
OSCC’s new 145,000-sq.-ft. facility is located on 20 acres in Wahoo, Neb.
pouring operations. Te company as a whole was somewhat fragmented in the Omaha site’s six buildings, which also increased necessary material
to the fact the company had simply outgrown its 100-year- old footprint, led the OSCC team to explore the possibility of moving operations in 2007. OSCC could not continue to expand at its present location in west Omaha. Te economic downturn of 2008-2009 tabled
the relocation idea for a few years, but OSCC management returned to the idea in 2011.
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