wiredinUSA April 2014

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.

wiredInUSA - April 2014

12