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Department of Labor Awards Gartland Foundry Safety and Health Award
The Indiana Department of Labor awarded the Indiana Safety and Health Achievement Recognition Program (INSHARP) certification to Gartland Foundry on November 29, 2007.

INSHARP, one of Indiana’s exemplary safety and health recognition programs, was established to recognize and promote safety and health management programs throughout the state. Based on benchmarks for advancement and development of safety and health programs within the workplace, INSHARP status can be achieved when management and employees work together to create and maintain a safe and healthy work environment.

Gartland Foundry is the only iron foundry, and is among an elite few manufacturers, in Indiana to have been awarded this certification.

Gartland Foundry Featured in National Trade Magazine
Gartland was featured as the cover story for a national foundry trade magazine MODERN CASTING. See the full article by clicking below.
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Gartland Completes Cleaning Room Modernization Project
Gartland has completed a major renovation of its cleaning and finishing room. Complete new flooring and lighting has been added as well as 3 new state of the art loading docks.

A new 3200 square foot warehouse has been added to facilitate staging of product to aid in Gartland's goal of prompt and on-time deliveries.

During this project, Gartland also installed a new 200 HP air compressor to assist in production needs.

ISO Certification Update
Gartland has been re-certified as 9001:2000 facility by TUV of Rheinland North America. The re-certification audit was conducted in May 2005 and Gartland, led by Quality Manager Michele Rukes, was awarded a clean audit with no deviations.

Gartland was originally ISO certified in 2002. The latest certification extends to 2008.

New Spectrometer
Gartland uses the latest in technology for metallurgical analysis. A LECO GDS 500A spectrometer is part of Gartland's metallurgical laboratory. This equipment is an analytical device that determines the composition of iron samples and is able to detect up to 16 elements.

The analysis is conducted by a glow discharge plasma discharge that breaks down light emissions to quantify each element's composition in the sample.

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