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This Week’s Metalcasting News Review
PCC Expands Aerospace PortfolioPrecision Castparts Corp. — an investment caster, forger, and manufacturer of fasteners and other critical metal components — continues to acquire companies as it assembles an organization supplying aerospace and power-generation markets. Portland-based PCC said it would buy two California companies, Dickson Testing Co. and Aerocraft Heat Treating Co., in cash transactions. |
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Dyersville Die Cast Buys Hawkeye FoundryIowa’s Dyersville Die Cast reportedly has acquired Hawkeye Foundry in Manchester, IA, and renamed the new holding Ertl Foundry. |
NIST Casting Research Adds Nano-Tech InvestorPowdermet Inc., which develops “nano-engineered metallic composites,” has joined the NIST-led research program announced more than two years ago to develop lighter aluminum and magnesium castings. |
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