Mercury castings increases quality, repeatability with shot control system.Mercury Castings, a division of Mercury Marine Mercury Marine, founded in 1939, is a division of Brunswick Corporation of Lake Forest, Illinois, in the United States. Company beginnings The company began when engineer Carl Kiekhaefer purchased a small outboard motor company in Cedarburg, Wisconsin. in Fond du Lac Fond du Lac (fŏn` də lăk', –jə–), city (1990 pop. 37,757), seat of Fond du Lac co., E central Wis., in a resort region at the south end of Lake Winnebago; inc. 1852. , Wisc., casts more than two million pounds of aluminum a month for outboard engine components and other custom OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and applications. Given the size and volume of the parts it produces, repeatability and scrap reduction are critical factors for cost-efficiency. To help achieve these goals, Mercury Castings uses a Sure-Trak shot control system from Visi-Trak Worldwide, L.L.C., Valley View, Ohio, on 24 of its diecasting machines. |
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