ACC Awarded Contract to Manufacture, Machine Steel Undercarriage Frames.Once the letter of intent was signed in July, engineering was underway by Atchison Casting Corp. (ACC See adaptive cruise control. ), Atchison, Kansas  , to supply Nippon Sharyo, Ltd., Nagoya, Japan, with 600 sets of undercarriage railcar castings to be installed onto the new Gallery Cars for Metra Passenger Services, Chicago. The contract is valued at more than $27 million and deliveries will extend through December 2004. The steel castings are in production now, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Dennis R. Anderson, national accounts manager for the Atchison Steel Casting & Machining (ASCM ASCM Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures ASCM Anti-ship Cruise Missile (US Navy) ASCM American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (Gaithersburg, MD) ) Div., Atchison, Kansas. ASCM is involved in producing the castings, machining them and performing final assembly. "This is an important validation of our ongoing efforts to be a single point of contact for foundry, machining, assembly and value-added work content," said John R. Kujawa, ACC group vice president. Timothy M. Zimmer, ASCM vice president of sales, added, "We have a strong team of engineering, assembly, procurement and contracts personnel who worked very hard to secure this contract. This kind of diversification further demonstrates how we can capture market share during tight market conditions." ACC produces iron, steel and nonferrous castings for a wide variety of equipment, capital goods Capital Goods Any goods used by an organization to produce other goods. Notes: Examples of capital goods include office buildings, equipment, and machinery. See also: Capital Expenditure, Disinvestment Capital goods and consumer markets. |
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