MODERN CASTING has selected Caterpillar's Mapleton, Ill., facility as this year's Metalcaster of the Year for innovatively re-engineering two of its molding lines in order to become more flexible without making an overwhelming capital overlay. 

Past winners include U.S. Pipe's Marvel City Mini Mill, Birmingham, Ala., Signicast, Hartford, Wis., Intermet's Stevensville Mich., facility, Blackhawk de Mexico, Santa Catarina, Mexico, General Motors' Saginaw Metal Casting Operations, Saginaw, Mich., and Dotson Iron Castings, Mankato, Minn.