Culture

When customers expect your castings to perform in extreme conditions, you take exceptional pride in knowing your work is strong, dependable and high quality. At ThyssenKrupp Waupaca, generations of foundry excellence, industrial leadership, team innovation, and a heritage of taking care of our employees goes to work every day.

We commit ourselves to create the best in class iron castings from a strong and stable company so our customers can depend on consistent castings. This wouldn’t be possible without a workforce made up of men and women who point to finished products with pride and say “we made those brake rotors.”

We’re the largest iron castings producer in the world, but we also care that we have created a corporate culture where company picnics and 25-year work anniversaries are just as important. We provide a singular blend of stability and innovation, expertise and collaboration, and the realization that we hold ourselves to higher standards because customers and employees depend on us.

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In Tell City (and in all of our foundries), foundry work is a family affair for the Tarltons. Tom senior is an assistant production manager; Tom Junior just celebrated his one-year anniversary as a grinder in the mill room. Throughout ThyssenKrupp Waupaca, generations of families have looked to the foundry for dependable, rewarding careers and many sons and daughters have followed in their parents’ footsteps. For both men, the foundry is a source of pride and as they say, more than just a job. It’s the same story in plants in Waupaca, Marinette and Etowah where brothers work next to uncles and they humbly tell you “foundry work is just in our blood.”