Sturm, Ruger division to launch new casting plant.Pine Tree Castings (Sturm, Ruger Sturm, Ruger & Company is a Fairfield, Connecticut-based manufacturing company composed of three divisions: Ruger Firearms, Ruger Investment Castings, and Ruger Golf. The best known division is the first one, because Sturm, Ruger was formed as a firearms company - in fact, the & Co.), Newport, N.H., is in the process of establishing a new titanium investment casting investment casting Precision casting for forming metal shapes with minutely precise details. Casting bronze or precious metals typically involves several steps, including forming a mold around the sculptured form; detaching the mold (in two or more sections); coating its facility in Newport. The new operation will be located in a portion of a 300,000-sq.-ft, former woolen wool·en also wool·len adj. 1. Made or consisting of wool. 2. Of or relating to the production or marketing of woolen goods. n. Fabric or clothing made from wool. Often used in the plural. mill Sturm, Ruger purchased. Pine Tree plans on using 50,000-100,000 sq. ft. for its casting operations. Pine Tree will cast titanium components for commercial use and the defense industry. The company will install two 110-lb. (50 kg) crucible crucible, vessel in which a substance is heated to a high temperature, as for fusing or calcining. The necessary properties of a crucible are that it maintain its mechanical strength and rigidity at high temperatures and that it not react in an undesirable way with furnaces to melt titanium. 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. Pine Tree General Manager Eric Unger, the facility will have the capability to pour up to 20,000 lbs. (9,072 kg) of titanium per day. "We believe with the addition of capacity, we will be the third largest titanium investment casting operation in the country," said Unger. The firm hopes to open the plant in the near future but currently is waiting for the necessary permits required for the furnaces and the investment casting process. Unger said the new operation has the potential to create up to 100 jobs. |
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