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05/24/04 |
DAFMEX
pours 1st production heat at Mexico facility. |
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FROM:
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Dameron
Newsletter - Spring 2004 & Fall 2004 |
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On Thursday, May 27, 2004, in the company’s new DafMex
foundry operation in Mexicali, Mexico, Dameron Alloy Foundries
poured the first production metal heat into molds that
were produced at the foundry. DafMex was instantly more
than just a name. At that moment, it became a completely
self-contained production foundry facility capable of
making quality castings for it’s customers.
Since that day and at this writing, DafMex has poured
several hundred heats. While most of those heats have
been in 300 series stainless steel, they have begun to
develop the process for pouring the original HR Series
Alloys that were invented by Dameron and are used widely
as a standard material in the glass container industry
world-wide.
From the first day that Dameron began putting this operation
together to the successful pouring of the first heat,
the combined team effort of all involved has truly been
an amazing undertaking. The team, headed by Vice President/Operations,
Jeff Milucky and Plant Manager, Oscar Espinosa, handled
every issue involved with the construction of the operation.
As stated so well by John Dameron, “this team has
accepted the challenges and responsibilities associated
with this huge undertaking and completed them on schedule
and without compromise. I am very proud of each one of
the core staff members and the entire work force for their
individual part and combined effort in this project.”
Castings are being shipped to the USA to the company’s
corporate foundry operation in Compton, CA for any additional
finishing requirements and/or machining. They are then
final inspected, packaged and shipped to our customers.
As time and processing allow, Dameron will transition
more jobs from its other operations to DafMex as needed.
Incidentally, for those readers that might be wondering
what happened to the castings from the first production
pour, they were cleaned, inspected and transported to
Compton and eventually shipped to the customer. They are
now in the field performing superbly…as is the case
with all Dameron’s castings. |
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