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Atchison Signs Multi-Year Deal to Supply GETS. (Industry News).


The Atchison Steel Casting Steel casting is a manufacturing process in which molten metal is poured into a mold, allowed to solidify within the mold, and then the mold is broken and the solid piece is taken out.  & Machining (ASCM ASCM Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures
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) Div. [Atchison Casting Corp. (ACC See adaptive cruise control. )], Atchison, Kansas , signed a multiyear agreement with General Electric Transportation Systems (GETS), Erie, Pennsylvania, to supply steel locomotive undercarriage trucks used on four GETS locomotive models.

"It's a single contract covering multiple parts," said Timothy Zimmer, ACC vice president of sales. "There's no doubt that ACC has a strong culture built around truck production. There's still a diversity of production. That makes ASCM vital in terms of revenue generation, especially in handling spike loads with a stable workforce.

Dennis R. Anderson, ASCM national accounts manager, added, "This agreement renews the long-standing relationship we previously had with GETS."

The agreement covers current domestic and export trucks and tooling design. The value and quantity of the agreement was undisclosed.

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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Title Annotation:Atchison Steel Casting and Machining Div., General Electric Transportation Systems
Comment:Atchison Signs Multi-Year Deal to Supply GETS. (Industry News).(Atchison Steel Casting and Machining Div., General Electric Transportation Systems)
Publication:Modern Casting
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Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Nov 1, 2001
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