NADCA Die Casting Industry Census Now Available
New Video Training - Staying Safe with Dross
Pace Industries to close July 14
Aluminum Die Casters Wanted: German Company Seeks
To Outsource
VW, Kia Rev Up In South While Detroit Idles
White House Memo Challenges EPA Finding on Warming
More Debate Over the Employee Free Choice Act
NADCA Die Casting Industry Census Now Available
As the most current and collaborative report on the die cast
industry and companies, this census will prove to be of great value to all North American industry members.
Divided in to four reports, this document will allow readers to best charter the changes in the industry and
better market to end-market segments.
These comprehensive die casting industry findings include the most complete statistical results of the NADCA
Census, count of die casting companies, alloys cast, employment and additional services provided; die casting
shipments broken down by captive and custom; die casting machine estimates including size and alloys produced;
and an end-market analysis to assist with targeting and planning.
Corporate members get 50% off. Available in print or by download, the complete report is available to corporate
members for just $300, to individual members at $450 and non-members $600. Also available in four sections at
$100 each, $150 each and $200 each for each respective membership level.
Click here to review and purchase.
New Video Training - Staying Safe with Dross
As part of an ongoing service, NADCA has launched its latest video training on staying safe with dross.
Click here to view this free 2 minute video.
Avoid potential legal and criminal penalties by following DOT Regulations. This video will help you minimize risk and
protect die casters from unwanted accidents.
Click here to watch now.
Pace Industries to Close July 14
According to an article in The Lake Gazette (May 13), the
management of Pace Industries announced the closing of its Monroe City Division die casting facility located at
135 Front Street Thursday, May 14. The operation, formerly known as Kuhlman Die Casting, was built in 1951. Pace
Industries acquired the business in 1990.
Continuing assistance will be provided to Monroe City associates by Pace Industries during the closing process.
The company is currently scheduling meetings with the Missouri Division of Employment Security and the Missouri
Department of Economic Development. To read the entire article,
click here.
Aluminum Die Casters Wanted: German Company Seeks To Outsource
A German company active in the solar-power industry is seeking
out aluminum die castes in the U.S. According to the request, this company is planning to outsource a number
of components and assemblies to U.S. manufactures before the end of 2009.
Interested aluminum die casters should be capable of locking (closing) force of more than 2,000 tonnes.
Please provide your contact information and a brief description of your capabilties to
marketing@diecasting.org by June 3, 2009. NADCA will then submit all references to the
Germany company for review.
VW, Kia Rev Up In South While Detroit Idles
According to an article by Bill Poovey (AP, 5/14), Volkswagen
AG executives celebrate raising the first walls of their $1 billion assembly plant in Chattanooga, TN, giving them
a chance to smile amid the auto industry's global despair.
When construction is finished and VW starts making a new mid-size sedan in 2011, Chattanooga's biggest catch will be
2,000 jobs at the plant and thousands of others at suppliers and other related businesses. To read the full article,
click here.
White House Memo Challenges EPA Finding on Warming
According to a May 12 article by Dina Cappiello (AP), an Environmental
Protection Agency proposal that could lead to regulating the gases blamed for global warming will prove costly for factories,
small businesses and other institutions, according to a White House document.
The nine-page memo, released by Republican senators, is a compilation of opinions made by numerous federal agencies prior to
the EPA determining in April that Greenhouse Gases pose dangers to public health and welfare, according to the article.
That finding set in motion the regulation of six heat-trapping gases from cars and trucks, factories and other sources under
the Clean Air Act for the first time. To read the entire article,
click here.
More Debate over the Employee Free Choice Act
According to the AP (5/13, Hananel), "Vice President Joe
Biden, making a renewed pitch for a major change in labor law, told union leaders Tuesday that the best way to
rebuild the middle class is to help labor unions grow." The Employee Free Choice Act is "organized labor's top
priority this year, but business groups are adamantly opposed." Business groups that "oppose the organizing
bill say workers would be subject to union intimidation without secret ballot elections. They are also
concerned about a provision that would let government arbitrators set a contract if workers and management
cannot agree on a first collective bargaining agreement within 120 days."
Keith Smith, a spokesman for the NAM, called the bill "a power grab by union bosses seeking to inflate union
membership by skewing the careful balance of our labor law system that has worked well for more than half a
century." Katie Packer, "head of the pro-business Workforce Fairness Institute, noted that the bill has been
losing ground with Senate Democrats. Sens. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., have said
they won't support the bill without significant changes."
