New Core Facility Will Be Built Next to Chromalloy Castings -
The Company's Newly Operational $30 Million Foundry
Florida Governor Rick Scott joined Chromalloy officials and
employees today as the company broke ground on a new $5 million
ceramic core production facility in Tampa, FL.
Gov. Rick Scott (center) With Chromalloy Executives Armand
Louzon And Tom Trotter
The new 40,000 square foot production facility will be built
adjacent to the company's newly operational $30 million industrial
investment foundry.
The company, with 52 locations worldwide, casts components for
the "hot section" or critical gas path of the engine, for the
entire range of jet aircraft engines as well as marine,
aero-derivative and heavy frame industrial turbines, including the
largest and most complex turbine blades and vanes for power
generation engines (IGT). That includes vanes, nozzles, High
Pressure Turbine (HPT) blades and other components using several
methods including equiaxed, directionally solidified, and advanced,
single crystal casting technologies.
Chromalloy provides design, engineering, tooling, machining,
repairs, coatings and cast parts for turbine engines in aerospace,
aero-derivative and industrial gas turbine (IGT)
applications. Customers include commercial airlines, the U.S.
Air Force, power generation and offshore platform operators, and
marine operators including the U.S. Navy and cruise lines.
The ceramic core facility will be built in 2011 and online by
the first quarter of 2012.
The company's new 150,000 square foot investment casting foundry
in Tampa – Chromalloy Castings – was unveiled in
December 2010 and is fully online. The foundry expanded the
company's casting capability to pour up to one million pounds of
superalloy turbine components and parts for aerospace,
aero-derivative and industrial gas turbine engines.
Ceramic cores are utilized in the investment casting process to
form complex cooling passages within the components, which are
necessary to operate effectively in the hot and highly stress
sections of gas turbine engines.
"The new facility will supply the critical ceramic cores used to
cast superalloy turbine engine vanes and blades," said company
president Armand F. Lauzon, Jr. "Being co-located with the foundry,
it will help us to serve our customers with even stronger
production times."
Newly-elected Governor Scott met with company officials and
employees after the groundbreaking ceremony.