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Charter Casting (fmr. Aarrowcast)
Shawano, Wisconsin iron foundry acquired by Charter Manufacturing (Menomonee Falls, WI; fourth-generation family-owned, ~$1.4B revenue) in November 2021. Formerly Aarrowcast Inc. (founded 1984). 40-acre campus, 210,000 sq ft; ~50,000 short tons/year ductile and gray iron castings. Markets: agricultural equipment, heavy truck, military/defense, construction, pump/valve/compressor. Charter also owns Charter Steel, Charter Wire, Charter Automotive, and Dura-Bar (iron bar stock) — making it a uniquely integrated ferrous metals company from iron bar stock to finished castings. Third-largest US independent iron foundry for agricultural equipment after Waupaca and Grede.
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Origin2023
Charter Casting (formerly Aarrowcast Inc., founded 1984 in Shawano, Wisconsin) was acquired by Charter Manufacturing in 2021. Charter Manufacturing is a fourth-generation family-owned Wisconsin manufacturer controlling Charter Steel, Charter Wire, and Charter Casting -- an unusually integrated producer that controls steel production, wire drawing, and iron castings under one private family ownership. The Shawano foundry serves heavy equipment, automotive, and industrial customers with gray and ductile iron castings. Regional iron foundries like Charter Casting are critical infrastructure for US industrial supply chains because they provide made-in-America cast iron components (typically industrial specification, short-run, custom dimensions) that global commodity foundries cannot economically serve at small volume. When COVID-era supply chains broke down, regional foundries with local US manufacturing capability became strategically valuable to industrial OEMs unable to access Asian castings.
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