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Two Missouri die-casting companies weathering storm
HANNIBAL, Mo. — Automotive manufacturers in Marion and Monroe counties have been hit hard by the economic downturn and the slumping automobile industry.
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Pace Industries is closing its doors, and Intermet filed bankruptcy, and its assets were bought at an auction, leaving the future of the plants in Monroe City and Palmyra in doubt.
However, two area die-casting manufacturers have weathered the worst of the wild economic ride — Lakeside Casting Solutions in Monroe City and Spartan Light Metal Products Inc. in Hannibal.
Lakeside Casting Solutions has cut its employees’ hours, but none of its 24 workers has been laid off.
“That’s the decision we made,” Lakeside President Bob Lehenbauer said. “We didn’t want to have to lose anybody over the situation. We keep our staff so low to start with, and we do cross-training where everybody can do everybody’s job so it’s not so compartmentalized. We also took advantage of the slow time to do some added training for the future.”
Lakeside tapped into the Missouri’s Shared Work Unemployment Compensation Program to help workers when hours were reduced. The program allows an employer to divide the available work or hours of work among a specified group of affected employees in lieu of a layoff, and it allows employees to receive a portion of their unemployment benefits while working reduced hours.
Also helpful has been the fact that only about 30 or 40 percent of Lakeside’s manufacturing is for the automotive industry, although Lehenbauer said auto industry manufacturing is often an indicator of things to come.
“What you see in automotive, the others follow suit. We see hints of that happening,” he said. “People are afraid to spend money.”
Lehenbauer, Mike Madden, Carl Donath and Jeff Mudd started the business almost seven years ago. July is a historically slow month in manufacturing, so Lehenbauer said Lakeside cut back to three 10-hour days a week. The pay difference for employees was made up through the Shared Work program.
“We’re telling our guys to take advantage of time, because down the road when people start feeling comfortable about releasing dollars, we’re going to get pretty busy,” he said.
Spartan Light Metal Products has three plants, including one in Hannibal. More than 200 of the company’s 750 hourly and salaried employees were laid off last year, but some workers are starting to be called back.
Spartan Vice President of Human Resources Philip Zampogna said the company is “definitely weathering the storm.”
“In fact, we are profitable, but that’s because tough decisions were made, including keeping the Hannibal facility open,” Zampogna said. “We felt like we made a commitment to the community and a commitment to the employees there, and also we had a particular customer we are servicing there.”
About 60 percent of what Spartan manufactures is for the automotive industry. Zampogna said Spartan’s manufacturing of “difficult parts,” highly engineered and machined parts, adds value to customers. The company’s diversification across the automotive manufacturing base, with customers in the United States and Asia, also helps.
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He said since the companywide layoffs, staffing has remained steady.
“We are cautiously optimistic for the remainder of this year,” Zampogna said. “We look at a number of different automotive forecasting sources, and those indicate a slight uptake in orders for remainder of this year, and those forecast even better (activity) next year.
“But the words ‘cautiously optimistic’ are critical here.”
He emphasized customers will be looking at suppliers’ finances in the coming months.
“Financial viability and actually being profitable are going to be key for suppliers during this rebound,” he said. “Our customers are looking at us, making sure we’re financially viable and have solid business plans. That’s one of the reasons we made some changes in our work force, to make sure we remained profitable.”
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Preparing Your Die Casting Jobs Resume
Basic Guidelines in Preparing Your Die Casting Jobs Resume. The first step of getting hired is to collate everything about you and organize them on a piece of paper. Pick out the details that will help you out land a die casting job and include them in your resume. You can have a glance on a resume help to either guide you on what to write or to refresh your memory on what else to include in your resume.
A well-written die casting jobs resume helps you to get noticed on the initial screening of the hiring process. Therefore, this document must not just look like anybody else’s resume. You have to include what makes you different among the others. However, make sure that the die casting details in your resume are all relevant to what you are applying for.
Enumerated below are some of the guidelines regarding resume help:
• Your objective must be clearly and briefly stated. Go directly straight to the point and tell the HR about your goal why you want to get hired.
• Summarize your previous die casting work experiences, starting from the most recent. Include your significant achievements to increase the interest of the screener. It will be better if you will only include (if you handled several jobs in the past) the die casting jobs that are also related to the job you wish to get at present.
• Highlighting your strengths that have something to do with the vacant die casting job that you are interested in is a good resume help, too.
• Do not however, include your crucial personal details, but only your contact information as well as your educational attainment. Write the die casting seminars you have attended since your college years. This will make your future employer think that you have adequate knowledge, skills, and ability about the job.
• Finally, keep your resume readable, professional, and free from typographical errors.
• More assistance can be found at Super Jobs.
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Contech casting plants sales to Revstone approved
US Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes approved the sale of Contech LLC casting plants in Auburn and Pierceton to a private equity firm, Wilmington, Del.-based Revstone Industries LLC, on June 16.
Michigan-based Contech LLC filed for bankruptcy protection in January in Detroit and has been seeking for buyers for its six casting plants in Indiana, Michigan and Tennessee since March.
The Auburn plant produces rack and pinion housings and the Pierceton plant makes suspension links, axle components and engine components, Contech Web site said.
To date, 134 staff members work at the Auburn plant, though 33 are on layoff and 122 work at the Pierceton plant, including 25 on layoff, the court documents detailed.
Stroh Die Casting Company to cut 19 jobs
Stroh Die Casting Company informed state officials that it is planning to permanently lay off 19 workers from its facility at 11123 W. Burleigh St. in MIlwaukee.
The separations are expected to occur on or around Sept. 21, according to a mass layoff notice filed with the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development.
Stroh Die Casting Company specializes in supplying precision die cast components and assemblies to original equipment manufacturers.
(Admin note: In our opinion, Stroh Die Casting is a good die casting company. Kinetic Die Casting hopes that the business environment at Stroh Die Casting Company improves soon)
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Over 30 Die Casting Companies Go to Washington DC
Over 30 Die Casters Go to Washington DC. More than 100 U.S. metalcasters, including 30 die casting representatives, visited Washington, DC, to attend the 2009 Metalcasting Industry Government Affairs Conference, which was May 4-5 at the Capitol Hilton, Washington, DC.
Attendees heard from U.S. Congressmen and policy experts on key industry issues and met with their members of Congress to discuss the impact pending laws will have on their business and the industry. The issues discussed included card check, cap-and-trade legislation, health care reform and mandated leave benefits.
The two-day event featured presentations from Dr. Peter Morici, an economist from the Univ. of Maryland, who provided an overview of the 2009 Economic Outlook and the role of the new Administration in fixing the economy. Attendees also had the opportunity to hear from several members of the U.S. Congress, including the ranking member of the Budget Committee, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and newly-elected Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY). Congressman Guthrie is the first metalcaster in more than a decade to serve in the U.S. Congress.
“Thanks to the many industry members who joined us in Washington,” said NADCA Board vice chairman Leonard Cordaro. “Their presence made a difference and helped paint a well-informed picture of the state of our industry for members of the U.S. Congress.”
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