Aerospace Machining Company Makes First Foray Into Metalcasting Market, May Continue

摘要

Paradigm Precision, Tempe, Ariz., a manufacturer of machined components for the aerospace and industrial gas turbine engine industries, announced it has completed the acquisition of metalcaster Eurocast, Tunis, Tunisia. As part of a strategy to combine and grow multiple machining suppliers into an international player, Paradigm began seeking machining companies in mid-2006 and made its first purchase in February, acquiring machinist Smith West, Tempe, Ariz. The company more recently acquired Palmer Manufacturing, Maiden, Mass., the parent company of Eurocast. Smith West and Palmer both are ma-chining-focused manufacturers dealing in jet engine housings, cases, shroud segments, half rings and combustion liners, as well as flange and thin wall rings, torque tubes, liners and nozzles, rotating, disks, seals, shafts and spools, casings, frames and housings.