ThyssenKrupp Waupaca, Inc. is headquartered in Waupaca, Wisconsin and operates six iron casting foundries in Wisconsin, Indiana and Tennessee.
ThyssenKrupp Waupaca, then Waupaca Foundry, Inc., began operations in 1955 when Clifford Schwenn purchased Pearson Foundry Machine Shop in Waupaca, Wisconsin. During this period the foundry employed 13 and poured 2-3 tons daily.
In 1978 Thyssen, headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany purchased Waupaca Foundry, Inc. In 1999 Krupp and Thyssen merged, becoming
ThyssenKrupp AG. In 2002 Waupaca Foundry, Inc. changed its name and operates today as ThyssenKrupp Waupaca, Inc.
Markets served include light vehicle, commercial vehicle, agriculture, construction, hydraulics, material handling, and other industrial segments.
Size
- Number of employees: 3,000+
- Number of facilities: 6
- Square footage: 1,793,900 sq. ft. / 166,570 m2
Capacity
- Melting capacity of over 9,500 tons daily (the Eiffel Tower is 6,700 tons)
- 33 vertical green sand molding machines
- Casting size ranges between 2 lbs to 350 lbs or 1kg to 160 kg
Materials
- Uses various grades of gray iron, ductile iron, austempered ductile iron and compacted graphite iron as the raw materials in the manufacturing process
Green Initiatives
- Awarded 2009 Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence by The State of Wisconsin for a heat recovery project reducing the amount of natural gas required by 600,000 DKT (the equivalent of gas emissions from 791 passenger cars).
- Charter member of the Save Energy Now® LEADER program, a new U.S. Department of Energy program. Signed a voluntary pledge that ThyssenKrupp Waupaca will reduce its industrial energy intensity by 25 percent over the next decade, beginning 2010.
- Over 40%, or 403,543 tons, of metal is re-melted/re-used annually.
- Annually, 111,000 or 75% of the Foundry’s sand by-product is reused for road and general construction, agricultural use, and geotechnical fill.