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Rosencrance Named General Manager of Intermet Aluminum Foundry

17 December 1997

Rosencrance Named General Manager of Intermet Aluminum Foundry

    TROY, Mich., Dec. 17 -- Intermet Corporation
today announced that James A. Rosencrance has been named general manager of
its Alexander City Castings aluminum foundry in Alexander City, Alabama.
    Rosencrance comes to Intermet from Outboard Marine Corporation where he
held a number of manufacturing positions, most recently as plant manager of
the OMC Spruce Pine lost foam aluminum plant in Spruce Pine, North Carolina.
Prior to this he was manufacturing manager for Regency Textiles, Inc. in
Calhoun, Georgia and a production manager for Bekaert Steel Wire Corporation
in Rome, Georgia.
    He has a B.S. degree in Industrial Management from Georgia Institute of
Technology.
    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