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Hubbell Die Casting as Moultrie Die Cast
MOULTRIE — A Moultrie manufacturing facility restarted operations last week after a change in ownership.
JDJ Operations purchased the former Hubbell Die Casting facility and began operations there as Moultrie Die Cast on July 28, four days after Hubbell ceased operations.
Moultrie Die Cast initially is employing 27 workers and plans to eventually employ a work force of up to 150.
At its peak Hubbell had about 130 employees but that number had been declining over the last five years and had fallen to 40 at the time it was shut down, said Darrell Moore, executive director of the Moultrie-Colquitt County Development Authority.
Moultrie Die Cast will continue to produce die-castings for Hubbell Lighting and other Hubbell companies as well as regional customers, the company said in a news release.
The company also has indicated it will diversify the operations at the Moultrie plant to boost growth, including the production of toys and other products, Moore said.
“They’re really going to try to grow sales and continue growing,” he said. “They’re making investments in new equipment. I think that’s a very good thing for Colquitt County.
The company also announced that Mike Hiers of Moultrie has been named as plant manager at the facility. Hiers has more than 30 years of experience in die-casting, including safety and environmental, maintenance, and tool and die, the news release said.
JDJ Operations is affiliated with Dyersville Die Cast, a custom manufacturer of zinc and aluminum die-castings; and CNC machining, powder coating and plastic injection molding.
Established in 1970, Dyersville Die Cast is a family-owned and -operated manufacturer whose headquarters is located in Dyersville, Iowa. It is a division of Joseph L. Ertl Inc. and has a sister division, Scale Model Toys.
Jane Ertl McClean, vice president of Scale Model Toys, said that the parent company first learned of a potential opportunity in Moultrie in May 2008 and had been working to close a deal since December.
The company had looked to expand for years and selected the Moultrie facility to make that a reality, McClean said.
“We had some issues that fortunately have been worked out,” she said. “When this came up — a turnkey operation — this was very attractive for us. Another thing that’s very attractive in Moultrie is the quality of your people.”
Although the company has been in operation less than two weeks, it already has shipped product to Moultrie Manufacturing and received a truckload of new equipment from Iowa, she said.
“We are upgrading the plant,” McClean said. “We’ve had one week of production and we’re already upgrading. We’re really excited about it.”
Source: http://www.moultrieobserver.com/local/local_story_218232144.html
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Magnesium Alloys Emphasize Lightness
He notes that magnesium alloys emphasize lightness and toughness of new generations of computer notebooks being manufactured for business, industrial, public safety, military, gaming and personal use. Also, the power tool industry increasingly is relying on die-cast magnesium components to offer durable, lighter weight designs that are easier to handle and manage over long work shifts. “Users may think that lighter weight means less power, but the opposite is true: using lighter die-cast magnesium for a pneumatic tool’s housing or a worm drive power saw’s gear case allows the design to accommodate a larger, more powerful motor for the same or less weight,” says Patzer.
Lightweight, high-tech magnesium has crossed over from the purely industrial- and mechanical-type applications into the high visibility world of furniture design. For example, the world’s first magnesium-framed chair is the Go Chair design of Bernhardt Furniture in North Carolina. Patzer explains the design blends science and nature, taking full advantage of magnesium’s light weight and high strength-to-weight ratio.
This isn’t to say that automotive engineers have given up on magnesium. ASM International’s Ground Transportation Committee has focused its technical program on magnesium, aluminum, titanium and ultra-high-strength steels. Arianna Morales, staff researcher at General Motors based in Warren, Mich., and chair of the committee says in a statement, “the materials showing the way to future vehicles may be light in terms of weight, but they are far from ‘lightweight’ in importance.” She says these metals—especially magnesium—will be critical to meeting new U.S. government mandated fuel economy standards of 36 miles per gallon for passenger cars by the year 2014.
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Demand for aluminum-magnesium die castings
Demand for aluminum-magnesium die castings from the appliance, consumer products and residential construction industries also has been very weak—and so has demand for wrought products by machinery and consumer products makers. Purchasing of parts designed for wind energy and other biofuel machinery applications have been nearly nonexistent this year. Also, the use of magnesium to make the aluminum alloys that make 1.5 million metric tons per year annually of beverage cans appears to have stagnated in the face of competition from plastics bottles.
Magnesium, as an oxide, also is used as a deoxidizing agent in the smelting of aluminum, titanium and other nonferrous metals; as refractory material in furnace linings for producing iron, steel and glass; as a desulphurization agent in steelmaking; as a raw material when making Portland cement in dry process plants; as an insulator in industrial cables, as a basic refractory in industrial cables and as a principal ingredient in construction materials used for fireproofing.
Patzer of the International Magnesium Association says that “the typical seasonal summer slowdown is being exacerbated by the lack of business from traditional, big-volume end users and materials competition from the aluminum industry.” The big debate, he says, is whether the bottom of the demand slide has occurred and, if it has, when the demand pickup will become apparent.
Driven by environmental programs across the consumer electronics industry, portable electronics product manufacturers are opting for light, yet tough, magnesium for everything from flash audio/video players to digital cameras, mobile phones, computer notebooks and radar detectors. Patzer says that “components that house and protect highly sensitive technology inside entertainment and communications devices must exhibit strength and durability and magnesium meets the design challenges of the consumer electronics becoming lighter, thinner, and more mobile.”
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There is plenty of Magnesium for Diecasting
There’s plenty of magnesium metal around these days. Reason: Demand looks to be falling by more than 10% this year because of the collapse of its major market, motor vehicle parts. Magnesium prices are down as a result, but not as low as might be expected because of punitive tariffs imposed against Chinese and Russian magnesium suppliers. Upshot: Magnesium die casters and fabricators are looking for new uses of the lightweight metal.
Despite new applications in making laptop computers, power tools, sporting goods and office furniture, North American magnesium diecasting use has slipped in making die castings for aerospace, automotive and machinery parts. Use of magnesium oxide in the production of aluminum and steel also has dropped dramatically since smelting of both metals has collapsed.
And, it could be 2011–2012 before North American magnesium sales volume rebounds to 2005–2007 tonnage, suggests Greg Patzer, executive vice president of the International Magnesium Association in Wauconda, Ill. “The 2008–2009 recession has had the most profound impact on demand and production, and 2010 probably won’t be a strong recovery year.”
The collapse of auto and truck assembly in North America has cut projected magnesium use to 67,300 metric tons this year from an annual average of 81,600 metric tons in the previous five years. The slowdown in aviation production also has reduced magnesium need. Airlines have canceled and deferred orders this year as the global recession has reduced flight demand. Boeing has had 85 orders and 84 cancellations through June, leaving the Chicago-based firm with a mid-year net order book of just one plane. Toulouse, France-based Airbus hasn’t released its figures yet but global airlines are mimicking Qantas, which has deferred deliveries of four Airbus SAS A380 superjumbo jetliners.
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Harper Says Canada’s Automotive Plans Will Track U.S.A.
Harper Says Canada’s Automotive Plans Will Track U.S.A.
March 29 (Bloomberg) — Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said his government’s plans to help General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC will track similar efforts by President Barack Obama’s administration.
“Our plans will obviously be very close in nature,” Harper said in an interview today in Washington.
Obama’s auto task force, after assessing proposals from GM and Chrysler, will announce tomorrow whether the government will give the automakers more U.S. assistance. The companies have received $17.4 billion since December and asked for an additional $21.6 billion in aid last month.
Canada’s Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and Industry Minister Tony Clement have scheduled a press conference tomorrow at 12 p.m. Ottawa time to discuss “restructuring” in the auto industry.
Harper said Canadian officials are in close consultation with the U.S. on the automotive industry, though he declined to comment on the specifics of the discussions or the U.S. plan.
“I’m very confident the United States government has its sights firmly on the objective of a restructuring where the tough decisions are made such that the restructuring will be successful,” he said. “They do understand that if one were to pursue a restructuring without making the stakeholders make all the tough decisions, then the restructuring could well fail.”
Chrysler, seeking $2.3 billion in aid from the Canadian government, has been unable to reach an agreement with the country’s auto union to reduce costs ahead of a March 31 deadline, Ken Lewenza, president of the Canadian Auto Workers, said on March 27 on a call with reporters.
Chrysler builds minivans in Windsor, Ontario, and the Chrysler 300, Dodge Charger and Challenger cars in Brampton, Ontario. The company has a metal casting plant in Toronto.
Reviving the U.S. auto industry will require a “set of sacrifices from all parties involved, management, labor, shareholders, creditors, suppliers, dealers,” Obama said in an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation” taped March 27. “Everybody’s going to have to come to the table and say it’s important for us — to take serious restructuring steps now in order to preserve a brighter future down the road.”
To contact the reporter on this story: Theophilos Argitis in Washington at targitis@bloomberg.net; Andrew J. Barden in Washington at barden@bloomberg.net; Theophilos Argitis in Washington at targitis@bloomberg.net.
