“We want to get out in the marketplace to determine what the


customers’ expectations are and make sure we meet and exceed


those opportunities,” —Kevin Brown


“At the time, we didn’t know about


new environmental regulations being placed on our industry,” Baines said. “We also had omissions in our plan- ning. We did not have a complete full plan drawn up and ready to hand to the contractors when we started.”


Hoping to handle the additional expenses that pushed the final project cost past $17 million with revenue from the casting operations, OSCC watched the orders lag. By early 2014, the Lozier Corp., a local manufactur- ing business with additional invest-


ments in several other companies, was in negotiations to buy the company and provide the additional funding required to complete the move. Te purchase was official March 27, just as the transition from Omaha to Wahoo was gaining steam.


A single melting system, with two 2-ton and two 0.5-ton furnaces, feed the parallel nobake molding lines. October 2014 MODERN CASTING | 23


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