MFG DAY 2024
What's powering you? Do you know? Do America's children know?
We do.
Aluminum castings are critical to lightweighting to maximize payload, and reliability for operations. From engine blocks and cylinder heads to hybrid transmissions, motor housings and gearboxes.
Let the kids know that there are great jobs waiting for them in metal castings!
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Aerospace-Grade Aluminum Castings
Discover the quality of premium aluminum castings with Eck Industries. Specializing in aerospace-grade materials, Eck Industries delivers lightweight and reliable castings for air flight components. For 75 years, we have been advancing our knowledge 200 and 300 series aluminum alloys; on modeling & simulation and developing best practices on the foundry floor. Choose Eck Industries for your high-performance casting needs and enjoy peace of mind knowing you're backed by industry-leading expertise and innovation.
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Meet Us at GVSETS 2024
The military requires high-performance equipment with ensured reliability. That is why they count on us. Honing our skills for over 75 years, our aluminum castings are used in mission-critical functions including powertrain, drivetrain, suspension and protection.
A great place to meet to discuss your military product is GVSETS, the best ground vehicle event in North America. August 13-15 in Novi MI.
Excellence in Casting
Known for quality in high-performance castings for over 75 years, Eck Industries is growing with process innovations in permanent mold and robotics.
Engage early into your next cast aluminum product and tap into our expertise in solidification modeling, material selection & design for casting success.
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Tactical & Combat Vehicle Lightweighting with A206
Vehicle design begins with targets on weight, performance and cost. When performance is tied to weight and cost, then aluminum castings are under consideration for structures, driveline, suspensions and powertrain.
When the performance is extreme, as in a tactical or a combat vehicle, then the tough A206 aluminum separates from the rest. Still produced in a lightweight, near-net shape casting, yet is significantly better in fatigue, damage tolerance and toughness. Proven in combat vehicles since the 1970's.
For your next project in UTV's, JLTV, AMPV, OMFV, XM30, M10, RCV -- let's make it strong, light and reliable!
Eck Featured in MANUFACTURING TODAY: Delivering success through robotics automation and employee dedication
RED Friday T-Shirt Design Contest
Eck Industries is encouraging all employees to participate in a movement widely known as RED Friday. The movement - which stands for 'Remember Everyone Deployed' - was designed to honor and show support of all active military personnel and veterans that have served and sacrificed for our country.
RED Friday was incorporated in our 2nd annual T-shirt design contest, along with our 75th anniversary. This was a fun event to engage our employees; to remember those deployed and serving our country; and also to thank our customers, many of which are producing equipment & vehicles for the military market.
Eck Industries, A Long-Time Supporter of University Research
"Long-term industry sponsors Eck Industries, ArcelorMittal and Waupaca Foundry were critical to making the vision a reality, providing industry-relevant projects that allowed students to use the toolset taught in the curriculum."
Support of Michigan Technological University student projects provide an enriched student experience, creative solutions for companies, and a chance for students & employers to become acquainted.
Credit to Paul Sanders for metallurgical programs that are focused on industry needs -- keep up the great work!
Our process engineer, Jacob Longstreth, was on the student team while attending Michigan Tech.
INNOVATION NEVER RESTS
It is always an honor to be recognized by our peers in metal casting industry. This time, it is a shared award with the Virginia Tech Kroehling Advanced Materials Laboratory winning the Best Prototype or Innovation.
Clearly the lattice structure is a significant casting challenge, further complicated by an aluminum-copper alloy with nano reinforcement. The successful cast product delivered superior performance in an energy absorption application.
75 Year Anniversary!
Eck Industries, Inc., a family owned and locally operated aluminum foundry, celebrates its 75th anniversary and is looking forward to many years ahead.
Kiley and Tyler are committed to building upon what their great-grandfather, grandfather and father/uncle started and grew and are putting their own stamp on it. “We can’t do this alone — it takes a team,” says Tyler.
“Eck could not have achieved its success over the last 75 years without our employees, customers and industry partners. Thank you to all who have been a part of our story,” says Kiley.
Long-time innovator, David Weiss, retires
January 23, 2023
David Weiss is retiring from Eck Industries, a company he joined in 1986. David has held a number of positions from Vice President of Engineering to VP Sales, and most recently VP R&D. He led many innovations in casting techniques and alloy development, along with the constant pursuit of bringing more value to our customers. He will consult for the company and continue to work on alloy development with the National Laboratory system, trade associations, and universities.
David has also made significant contributions to the metalcasting industry with over one hundred papers on casting processes and alloying development. David has been awarded multiple patents and has received many awards including the American Foundry Society John A. Penton Gold Medal for pioneering work in the premium aluminum casting industry.
David added, “I wish to thank the Eck family and the entire organization for the privilege of working for a world class foundry. They have supported me in every way possible, and I hope to bring them new ideas in the coming years.”
We thank him for the decades of commitment, and we wish him well in his future endeavors.
Kiley Eck, President
Eck Industries, Inc
Machine Learning Predicts Aluminum Alloy Properties
David Weiss, our VP R&D, has been innovating in aluminum-cerium alloys for a number of years, and in a recent study, he challenged Amatrium to predict the properties of 535 alloy with cerium. Amatrium took the challenge.
In parallel to the modeling, we poured test bars and performed the mechanical testing. The predicted results from machine learning were remarkably accurate, especially considering how small the aluminum-cerium database is compared to most aluminum alloys.
See the white paper, and let us know how we can collaborate to improve aluminum casting technology for your products.
NEW PATENT IN ALUMINUM-CERIUM ALLOY
Congratulations to this innovative team on the newly granted patent titled "Additive Manufacturing Methods Using Aluminum-Rare Earth Alloys and Products Made Using Such Methods." US 11,491,546 B2.
To summarize, David Weiss, VP R&D at Eck Industries stated, "This patent describes an aluminum alloy containing cerium and an additive process that combine to produce better mechanical properties at elevated temperatures than additively manufactured Al-Si alloys with easy to implement processing parameters and without the need for expensive alloying elements such as scandium. We expect these alloys can replace Al-Si alloys for additive manufacturing in demanding applications where higher performance is required."
Inventors: David Weiss, Orlando Rio, Sudarsanam Babu, Ryan Dehoff, Ryan Ott, Zachary Sims, Niyanth Sridharan, Hunter Henderson, Alexander Plotkowski.
INNOVATION IN HIGH-TEMPERATURE ALUMINUM
Though electrification is growing, the IC engine will as important in the future as it has ever been. Market leaders are even launching engines that run on hydrogen! To maximize efficiency, the limits are pushed, and this includes temperature, and weight. Eck Industries has worked in this market for many years, and has a wide range of high-temperature aluminum alloys to offer. The innovation continues with research into cerium, scandium & zirconium to deliver creep performance at 300C in low-density aluminum! Imagine your new product with our alloy & process expertise! Download Acta Materialia paper here.
TOUGH CASTINGS FOR THE MILITARY
Eck Industries has been a key supplier on winning military contracts for decades, both tracked and wheeled vehicle programs.
If you are working on the next OMFV, AMPV, JLTV, Special Ops or other combat or tactical vehicles, bring in our material and processing expertise to help you win the contract and deliver great equipment to the Warfighter.
MFG DAY 2022
October 7 is Manufacturing Day!
It is a day intended to introduce manufacturing to students and parents, and to plant a seed for future employment.
It is also a great day to recognize the people who make it all work, and here at Eck Industries, those people work from the shipping dock to the front office, from engineering to molding to facilities, from sand quality and beyond, to our suppliers, customers and business partners.
A great day to say, Thank You, for making manufacturing better, more innovative, and a great career for years to come.
Eck Industries Presents at AFS Leadership Meeting
Tyler Eck, VP Sales & Engineering, will participate in a panel discussion with executives from Waupaca Foundry and De Pere Foundry. The discussion centers on "Current Challenges in the Foundry Industry."
Registration here.
"Keep Calm and Lead On"
"I like to hire smart people, give them a little direction, a little vision, and the resources they need, and then I get out of their way."
- Ms. Kiley Eck Hayon, President
It's great to see Kiley's contribution to the article "Keep Calm and Lead On," about new leaders in the very established business of metal casting.
INNOVATION IN ALLOYS
As a leader in high performance aluminum castings, it is no surprise that we are innovating in alloy development too. We have a global reputation in Al-Cu alloys; this time, we're adding Cerium (Ce).
The applications of cerium in aluminum are largely focused on corrosion resistance, and high temperatures. On the latter, and in the additive manufacturing process, the alloy with cerium, scandium and zirconium looks promising to deliver high strength and good heat resistance. There is potential to replace titanium for short durations above 250C.
Kiley Eck Named to AFS Board of Directors
Congratulations to Ms. Kiley Eck Hayon, President of Eck Industries Inc, to be named to the American Foundry Society Board of Directors.
Kiley’s career started at Eck Industries in 2002 as a Quality Project Manager and she grew with increasing responsibilities to VP HR & Finance in 2010 to President in 2016. Kiley earned a BA in Computer Information Systems and an MBA from UW-Oshkosh.
Kiley is proud to represent Eck Industries, and the women in metal casting.