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Intermet Opens Technical Center

15 December 1997

Intermet Opens Technical Center

    TROY, Mich., Dec. 15 -_ Intermet Corporation
today announced the opening of its new Technical Center in Lynchburg,
Virginia.
    Located adjacent to the Lynchburg Airport, the Technical Center provides
advanced design and engineering services to Intermet' customers as well as
technical support to all of its cast metals and machining plants worldwide.
Customer design support is provided within their native computer-aided-design
and computer-aided-engineering languages and with cast metal process
simulation software.
    The Intermet Technical Center has CAD data transmission capabilities that
allow for the communication with Intermet's product engineering office in Troy
as well as with customers and plants throughout the U.S. and Europe.
    John C. Engeswick, Intermet's vice president of technical services, said
this new facility "greatly enhances our ability to offer extra value to the
customer and again demonstrates Intermet's dedication to technical leadership
in the metal casting industry.  We are a full service supplier at the
component level with capabilities ranging from conceptual product design and
materials specification, through rapid prototyping to casting, machining and
assembly."
    Concurrently, Intermet re-dedicated its research and development foundry
located near its Archer Creek plant in Lynchburg.  The refurbished research
foundry provides materials development, prototyping and testing and analysis
services.
    These facilities, which are both registered to QS-9000 and ISI 9001
standards, have a combined area of 22,000 square feet and house thirty people.
    Troy-based Intermet Corporation and its subsidiaries design and
manufacture precision iron and aluminum castings for automotive and industrial
equipment manufacturers worldwide, produce precision machined components,
cranes and specialty service vehicles, and provide custom coating
applications.  Intermet has more than 6,400 employees at twenty-three
operating locations in North America and Europe.

SOURCE  Intermet Corporation