International Crankshaft, Sumitomo JV, Expands Forged Crankshaft Business in the US.Tokyo, Japan, July 3, 2006 - (JCN JCN Japan Corporate News JCN Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience JCN Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing JCN Journal of Christian Nursing JCN Job Control Number JCN Journal of Child Neurology JCN joint communications network (US DoD) ) - International Crankshaft Inc., a joint-venture company established by Sumitomo Metal Industries Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd. (住友金属工業株式会社 , Ltd. and Sumitomo Corporation Sumitomo Corporation (住友商事, Sumitomo Shōji) TYO: 8053 is a highly built worldwide trading company (Sogo shosha), and is a diversified corporation based in Tokyo, Japan. It is a member company of the Sumitomo Group. for the manufacture and sale of forged crankshafts in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , has decided to install the third forging press line to meet robust local demand. ICI (language) ICI - An extensible, interpretated language by Tim Long with syntax similar to C. ICI adds high-level garbage-collected associative data structures, exception handling, sets, regular expressions, and dynamic arrays. is currently running its two forging press lines at full capacity in response to burgeoning North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. demand for forged crankshafts, producing approximately 1.4 million crankshafts per year. As the forged crankshaft market continues to expand, local customers have requested ICI to increase production. Greater production capacity is needed to meet this growing demand in the North American market, and so the decision has been made to install the third forging press line. In Japan, Sumitomo Metals produces forged crankshafts for passenger cars, trucks, construction machines and other machinery at the Osaka Steel Works in Osaka City, which belongs to the Railway, Automotive & Machinery Parts Company, with an annual capacity of approx. 4 million crankshafts. In China, Sumitomo Metals' joint-venture company Huizhou Sumikin Forging Co., Ltd. produces crankshafts, chiefly for passenger cars. HSFC HSFC Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada HSFC Hermetically Sealed Filter Container HSFC Harris Sample Furniture Company (Grand Rapids, Michigan) will bring the second forging press line on stream in January 2008 to lift its production level to approximately 1.8 million crankshafts per year. In the United States, International Crankshaft Inc. produces crankshafts in Kentucky primarily for passenger cars. ICI will boost its production level with the installation of the third forging press line that will increase annual capacity from approximately 1.4 million at present to approximately 2.65 million crankshafts per year. This supply system composed of three manufacturing bases in Japan, China and the U.S. will allow Sumitomo Metals to respond to both the expansion of the forged crankshaft market and the global strategies of auto makers. Copyright [c] 2006 Japan Corporate News Network. All rights reserved. |
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