Released on April 23, 2010

The Centre de Métallurgie du Québec (formerly CIFM), Quebec, Canada, has acquired 10,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing space and launched a new research and development casting facility.

The new facility, with more than 1,000 lbs. of aluminum and magnesium melting capacity across four furnaces, was inaugurated on April 23 in the presence of 50 academic and industrial partners. The newly acquired industrial building also houses a 2-ton capacity bridge crane.

The plant offers a range of molding processes, including nobake sand, investment, lost foam, low pressure permanent mold and cold chamber pressure diecasting. The new research center also houses a 3,000-sq.-ft. metallurgical laboratory and heat treating capabilities.

The Centre de Métallurgie du Québec, an annex to the Collège de Trois-Rivières, will be staffed by 10 full-time technical personnel assisted by professors from the college’s metallurgy department. The center will provide technical assistance and technology transfer to the metallurgical industry at large.