INDUSTRY NEWS
Dicastal Closer to Reaching Goal of 300 Employees have dividends for everybody involved. “It’s certainly worth congratulat-
Dicastal North America (Greenville,
Michigan) has hired more than 150 employees and is more than halfway toward its goal of 300 workers. Produc- tion isn’t at 100% but is expected to reach full capacity by early 2017. Te facility is currently performing
machining and painting, said Kathy Jo VanderLaan, business development coordinator, for Te Right Place with Montcalm County (Michigan) told Te Daily News. “Tey will start the casting part —
the foundry work — next year,” she said.
Te company has also received the
last part of a $5 million grant from the Michigan Economic Development Corp. Te grant is a meaningful landmark
for both the company and the surround- ing area. “I think it’s wonderful, and these
funds, it’s because they met their landmarks, which is a great accomplish- ment,” Greenville Mayor John Hop- pough said to Te Daily News. “It’s great for Greenville when things like this can happen. Te jobs, the new restaurants, new gas stations—everybody else can benefit—and I think it’s taking lemons and making lemonade.” Te report alludes to the work it took
to bring Dicastal to the Greenville area. It’s work that’s paying off, and will
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ing Dicastal,” Greenville city coun- cilman Mark Lehman told The Daily News. “Good things happen when companies take a product, and make something out of it,” he said. “To the degree that the city had anything to
do with helping them get into a very specified, huge, building, I think it’s fantastic. They’ve obviously done a lot of remodeling. I think it’s a spectacular thing.” CiTiC Dicastal is the facility’s parent
company, and it chose Greenville for the aluminum wheel plant in 2014.
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