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Wescast's European unit to begin production of new orders.


Wescast Industries Inc., Brantford, Ontario Coordinates:

Brantford is a city located on the Grand River in southwestern Ontario, Canada. This single-tier municipality was once part of Brant County.
, Canada, announced that its European business unit, Wescast Hungary Zrt., has received new orders to supply several cast and machined exhaust manifolds This is a list of particular manifolds, by Wikipedia page. See also list of geometric topology topics. For categorical listings see and its subcategories. Generic families of manifolds
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, turbine housings and cast turbomanifolds for Iveco, Isuzu, BorgWarner Turbo Systems and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.

The Italian truck producer Iveco chose Wescast to supply its engine plant in Foggia, Italy, cast and machined manifolds for the 4-cylinder, 2.3L Fiat-Ducato diesel engine program. This program is expected to start production in the second quarter of 2006.

Isuzu has sourced Wescast as the cast and machined manifold supplier to its new Circle L, 4-cylinder, 1.7L turbocharged diesel engine, assembled in Tychy, Poland. Production is expected to begin in the fall of 2006, with parts for the Opel Corsa The Opel Corsa is a supermini that has been produced by General Motors' European subsidiary Opel since 1982. It has also been sold under a variety of other brands (most notably Vauxhall, Chevrolet , and Holden , Meriva, Astra and Zafira.

BorgWarner Turbo Systems selected Wescast as their Tier 1 supplier for several programs. Wescast will supply integrated turbomanifolds for a 3-cylinder engine program fitted for a 4-cylinder 2.0L engine fitted to the Audi A4 and for the BMW BMW
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 4-cylinder 2.0L two-stage turbocharged engine program. Production of the turbine housing program for Audi is expected to begin in the fourth quarter of 2006 while it is anticipated that the BMW program will begin production early in 2007.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has sourced Wescast to supply cast and machined turbine housings for its Netherlands plant. The turbo chargers are provided to PSA (Professional Services Automation) An information system designed to organize, track and manage all opportunities, work, resources, costs, revenues and invoices to improve the productivity and efficiency of the workforce.  for the Peugeot 207, Peugeot Partner The Peugeot Partner is a van and leisure activity vehicle made by the French car manufacturer Peugeot. The van is named Partner and the leisure activity vehicle Partner Combi. In Italy it is known as the Peugeot Ranch. , and Citroen C3, C4 and Berlingo. Production is expected to start in the summer of 2006.

"We are very excited about the strong growth underway in Europe, both from new business wins and the expansion of current relationships," said Ed Frackowiak, Wescast Chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "We have been able to demonstrate the strength of our value proposition for Europe, broadening our base of supply to European- and Asian-based OEMs, and further establishing Wescast as a full-service global supplier.
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Title Annotation:North America
Publication:Modern Casting
Geographic Code:9JAPA
Date:Mar 1, 2006
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