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DeWAL
hits 40
Mill
modernization
The Ontario provincial government
is lending $7m funding to Ivaco
Rolling Mills to modernize its steel
billet and hot-rolled wire rod facility
in L’Orignal. The company plans
to increase capacity and improve
the quality of its steel products,
expanding its opportunities to supply
steel to automotive, advanced
manufacturing
and
energy
companies.
New technology will make the plant
more energy efficient, require less
raw materials and reduce particulate
emissions.
“The investment we’re announcing
today will help Ivaco improve its
competitiveness while increasing
environmental protection. Support
for manufacturing is part of the
Ontario government’s strategy to
create jobs and grow the economy
for a more prosperous and fair
Ontario,” said Eric Hoskins, minister of
economic development, trade and
employment.
Ivaco has capacity to produce up to
850,000 tons of wire rod and 450,000
tons of steel billet per year.
Forty years ago Hugo DiClemente
and Edward Walsh established
DeWAL
Industries,
converting
polymer resins into precision films
and tapes. Today the company has
sales locations in Canada, China,
Germany, Mexico, Russia, Shanghai,
South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan
and the UK.
DeWAL manufactures about 150
polymer films and pressure sensitive
tapes, plus countless custom films
and tapes in skived and unsintered
PTFE, skived UHMW-PE, expanded
PTFE, and porous and filled PTFE and
UHMW, FEP and polyimide tapes.