Ellwood Group acquisition breathes new life into former Valley-Vulcan Mold Co. in Ohio.The Hubbard, Ohio Hubbard is a city in Trumbull County, Ohio, United States. It is formed from part of Hubbard Township, which was formed from the Connecticut Western Reserve. The population was 8,284 at the 2000 census. , facilities of the former Valley-Vulcan Mold Co. have been acquired and reopened by the newly formed Ellwood Engineered Castings Co. (EEC EEC: see European Economic Community. ). The new company produces gray and ductile iron Ductile iron, also called ductile cast iron or nodular cast iron, is a type of cast iron invented in 1943 by Keith Millis[1]. While most varieties of cast iron are brittle, ductile iron is much more ductile, as the name implies. ingot molds for the steelmaking industry, and heavy-section engineered castings of 1000-200,000 lb. These castings will be marketed for applications in such industries as heavy construction equipment, machine tools, valves, papermaking pa·per·mak·ing n. The process or craft of making paper. pa  per·mak , pumps and compression equipment, and plastics machinery. EEC, which was expecting to pour its first ingot molds in January, already has been scheduling orders for delivery this month, said Donald J. Hurtuk, company president. Engineered-castings production was scheduled to begin shortly after startup of the new plant. Ellwood plans to expand its 60-member work force by the end of 1992. 'Our new company is dedicated to manufacturing world-class ingot molds and engineered castings for worldwide applications, Hurtuk said. 'Our entire work force will be salaried, and both the foundry and melt shop will be operated by self-directed work teams rather than the traditional hierarchical layers of managers and employees.' The Hubbard facility includes a 140,000-sq-ft foundry, 50,000-sq-ft melt shop, pattern shop, analytical testing laboratory and other production equipment. These are exceptionally well equipped facilities with a long history of producing high-quality molds and castings,' Hurtuk said. Thus, we have a solid foundation on which to build the new Ellwood Engineered Castings Co.' EEC specializes in product engineering-particularly in metallurgical design and analysis-by using the latest computer-aided design computer-aided design (CAD) or computer-aided design and drafting (CADD), form of automation that helps designers prepare drawings, specifications, parts lists, and other design-related elements using special graphics- and calculations-intensive techniques, 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. Joseph D. Simko, vice president-operations. Foundry products will be produced with the chemically bonded nobake or airset sand system. This system produces a superior casting and also offers environmental benefits in that virtually 1.00% of the sand is recycled,' Simko said. The melt shop, which was built nearly 10 years ago for $35 million, contains three Brown-Boveri 55-ton, coreless induction furnaces. Designed to operate independently, each furnace is equipped with fully automatic, microprocessor-based programmable controls. We believe the timing is right for entering this market,' said Ronald D. McKenzie, EEC vice president-sales. There is an emerging, premium-market niche that will want, and therefore eagerly support, a new supplier of premium ingot molds and engineered castings. We will be concentrating on this high-quality end of the market.' Valley-vulcan Mold Co. closed its Hubbard facilities in September 1990. The company had been formed by the 1987 merger of Valley Mould Co., founded in 1887, and Vulcan Mold Co. of Latrobe, Pennsylvania Latrobe is a city in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States approximately 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. In 1852, Oliver Barnes (a civil engineer for the Pennsylvania Railroad) laid out the plans for the community that was incorporated in 1854 as the Borough of , founded in 1923. In 1982, Valley Mould modernized the Hubbard foundry and built the adjacent melt shop. EEC is part of Ellwood Group, Inc., Ellwood City Ellwood City, industrial borough (1990 pop. 8,894), Beaver and Lawrence counties, W central Pa., near the Ohio line; inc. 1892. It has many metal-product plants. Coal mines are in the area. , Pennsylvania. The Group also owns Ellwood City Forge, Ellwood Texas Forge and EGI EGI Effective Gross Income EGI Ethical Globalization Initiative EGI Electrical Geodesics Inc. EGI European Grid Initiative EGI Energy and Geoscience Institute (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT) Steel Division. |
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