Released on August 13, 2010

St. Marys Foundry Inc., St. Marys, Ohio, is in the process of installing in-house heat treat capacity that it hopes to have online by mid-December.

According to Vice President Operations Terry Lenhart, the ferrous metalcasting company heat treats about 80% of its castings and began to consider performing some of the work in-house in February.

“We decided it was a good thing to have more of the operation under our roof because we’d have more control and knock about three days off [of our turnaround times],” Lenhart said.

The company signed the purchase order for the new oven in early July. St. Marys expects to be able to heat treat between 60-70% of its castings in the 174 x 182-ft. oven, with an eventual goal of performing 100% of the services in-house.

St. Marys is a nobake gray and ductile iron shop pouring castings from 500-60,000 lbs. for the air and gas compression, power generation, turbine, pump, valve, engine, aerospace, mining, and machine tool markets, among others. The company produces about 1.2 million lbs. of castings per month.