Released on March 13, 2008

Wisconsin Die Casting, Milwaukee, abruptly shut down on March 6, according to local news reports.

“There was some hang-up where the money wasn't there that they need to keep operating, and it happened all of a sudden,” Carl Rosen, regional president of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Rosen’s union represents the former Wisconsin Die Casting employees who were left unexpectedly jobless.

The local daily also reported that the company was undergoing efforts to restart the business, but attempts to contact the company were unsuccessful. Both its phone line and email address have been deactivated.

The diecaster formerly produced “large, small, simple or complex” zinc and aluminum parts out of a 60,000-sq.-ft. facility on the south side of Milwaukee, just off Interstate 94. According to its website, it specialized in precision engineered parts, offering value-added services such as CNC machining, drilling, tapping, reaming, boring, milling and turning.