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Kennedy Die Castings acquires Engineers Tool and Mfg. Co. (Acquisitions).


Kennedy Die Castings die casting

Forming metal objects by injecting molten metal under pressure into dies or molds. An early and important use of the technique was in the Linotype machine (1884), but the mass-production automobile assembly line gave die casting its real impetus.
, Worcester, Massachusetts, purchased Engineers Tool and Manufacturing Co., Inc., Stratford, Connecticut Stratford is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, located on Long Island Sound at the mouth of the Housatonic River. It was founded by Puritans in 1639.

The population was 49,976 at the 2000 census.
, in February. Kennedy purchased the ongoing business and certain assets of the zinc diecasting company.

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 Joseph Deliso, vice president and general manager of Kennedy Die Castings, the acquisition will enlarge Kennedy's customer base in zinc-based products and further expand its presence in the New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
, New Jersey and South Eastern Pennsylvania markets.

Kennedy will be absorbing the Connecticut operations and its 20 employees into its Worcester facilities over the next two months Kennedy has approximately 225 employees and manufactures die cast components and sub assemblies for the industrial electronic, telecommunication and computer industries.
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Publication:Modern Casting
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Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Apr 1, 2003
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