Nemak to perform $90 million expansion of Windsor Aluminum Plant to increase block capacity. (Industry News).Nemak of Canada Corp., Windsor, Ontario Windsor is the southernmost city in Canada and lies at the western end of the heavily populated Quebec City-Windsor Corridor. Windsor is located directly south of Detroit and is separated from that city by the Detroit River. The city has views of the Detroit skyline. , Canada, is expanding its Windsor Aluminum Plant to meet increasing demand for its cast aluminum engine blocks. 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. Robert Smillie Robert Smillie (17 March 1857 – 16 February 1940) was a trade unionist and Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. Born in Belfast, Smillie moved to Glasgow in his teens to work in a shipyard at Govan, and by seventeen was a miner at Larkhall colliery in Lanarkshire. , Nemak's vice president of Canadian Canadian (kənā`dēən), river, 906 mi (1,458 km) long, rising in NE New Mexico. and flowing E across N Texas and central Oklahoma into the Arkansas River in E Oklahoma. operations, work on the 110,000-sq-ft expansion will begin in April and cost an estimated $90 million. "There is growing consumer demand for lightweight, high-output and fuel-efficient engines, and this expansion ensures that Nemak and Windsor Aluminum Plant are in a position to help automakers satisfy their customers," said Smillie. Windsor Aluminum Plant utilizes the precision sand casting Casting is the process of production of objects by pouring molten material into a cavity called a mold which is the negative, or mirror image of the object, and allowing it to cool and solidify. process to produce up to 890,000 blocks annually. Nemak's expansion will boost this to 1.2 million blocks. Windsor Aluminum Plant was built by Ford Motor Co. in 1989 and was quickly expanded from its original 89,000 sq ft to its present 320,000 sq ft. Windsor Aluminum Plant supplies blocks to Ford engine plants across North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . It is expected that up to 100 new jobs will be created when the expansion is complete. The expansion will be built on a 16-acre site and should begin shipping blocks in September 2003. Nemak, Monterey, Mexico, was created as a joint venture between Alfa and Ford Motor Co. in 1980. Nemak assumed ownership and control of Windsor Aluminum Plant from Ford in 2001. "Nemak's decision to invest in a major expansion and increased production at Windsor Aluminum Plant demonstrates the company's confidence in the quality and productivity of its Windsor workforce," Smillie said. |
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