Released on July 19, 2011

Quaker City Castings, Salem, Ohio, recently acquired an additional 51,000 sq. ft. of industrial space adjacent to its current facility in Salem, Ohio.

“The new space will give us some breathing room and let us actually expand and not just reconfigure our existing floor plan,” said Joe Korff, president of Quaker City Castings.

Quaker City Castings’ current expansion plans include adding a sand reclamation unit, as well as expanding various castings processing operations and quality control. The company’s new space consists of a single building on a site formerly owned by Colfor Manufacturing, a subsidiary of American Axle & Manufacturing, Detroit.

“We have to do some work on the building before we can move in, but we expect to be bringing equipment and people into the new space within the next 8 to 12 months,” Korff said.

Quaker City Castings is an iron and steel foundry producing castings up to several thousand pounds for a variety of industrial markets, including valve and pump, power generation, oil-field and heavy construction equipment. The company also has a centrifugal casting operation that produces ring products and automotive cylinder liners.