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This Week’s Metalcasting News Review
Private Equity Group to Buy TK WaupacaThyssenKrupp AG is selling its gray and ductile iron foundry group to KPS Capital Partners, LP for an undisclosed price. TK Waupaca operates six plants in Wisconsin, Indiana, and Tennessee, with approximately 3,500 workers. The sale is expected to be final during 2Q 2012, but remains subject to ordinary closing conditions, according to a KPS statement. The company will be renamed Waupaca Foundry Inc., and its president and CEO Gary Gigante and the current management team will remain in place. |
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