General Motors' Saginaw Metal Casting Operations, Saginaw, Mich., is the 2007 Metalcaster of the Year. The firm's newly installed precision sand casting process has made it one of only a few facilities with the technology. The Metalcaster of the Year award is presented annually to a North American metalcaster that has demonstrated engineering expertise to advance the capabilities of the industry. It is based on the recipient of the American Foundry Society's Plant Engineering Award.

Past winners include Dotson Iron Castings, Mankato, Minn.; Hayes Lemmerz Montague, Montague, Mich.; John Deere Foundry, Waterloo, Iowa; International Truck and Engine Corp.'s Waukesha Manufacturing Facility, Waukesha, Wis.; Neenah Foundry Co., Neenah, Wis.; Mercury Marine-Mercury Castings Div., Fond du Lac, Wis.; and American Cast Iron Pipe Co., Birmingham. Ala.

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