Welcome
to
KENWALT
DIE CASTING COMPANY
Since
1967
Aluminum and
Zinc Die Castings
1-800-KENWALT
KenWalt
Die Casting
Company manufacturers high
quality low
cost Aluminum Die
Castings and Zinc
Die Castings also known as Die Cast Parts, Die Cast
Products, Castings, Diecastings, Aluminum Castings, Die
Casting
Aluminum, Die Cast Parts, Die Casting Zinc, Zinc Castings, Metal
Castings, Aluminum Alloy Casting, Die-Casting, Diecasting, Mold
Casting, Pressure Casting, Machine Casting, High Pressure Die Casting
and Vacuum Die Casting.
Our
Company
KenWalt
Die Casting Company
is a privately owned ISO 9001 Certified Die Casting Company
and ITAR Registered Die Casting Company incorporated
in the city of Sun Valley in Los Angeles California USA and
established
in 1967 by Ken Zaucha Sr
and Walter Zaucha. KenWalt Die Casting Company is currently listed in
the
small
business category of less than 50
employees with management and staff having many years of experience
producing high quality
Aluminum Die Castings
and Zinc Die Castings.
All employees are
trained, experienced, dependable and dedicated to customer satisfaction
and
producing high quality die cast parts using both aluminum and zinc die
casting alloys.
Our
Founders
Walter
Zaucha and son Ken Zaucha Sr were born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio.
Walter was an outstanding baseball player in the
1930's back in the days of Babe
Ruth, Joe DeMaggio, Bob
Feller, Dizzy
Dean
and others. In fact, Walter was such an outstanding baseball
player that he was drafted to play Professional Baseball by
the Cleveland Indians Major League Baseball Team.
Unfortunately for Walter and the game of
baseball, ballplayers were paid little money in those
days, so Walter decided instead to work to help
support his
mother and the rest of his family. Walter worked over 30 years at Superior Die Cast Company in
Cleveland, Ohio.
In
the late 1950's the Zaucha family relocated to Los Angeles,
California where Walter
applied his extensive die casting
experience as Plant
Manager of Withrow Die Casting Company
in North Hollywood, California. Walter was loved
by die
cast foundry employees as well as the die casting company
owners for
successful attainment of production goals and his continuous
development of responsible reliable employees.
Walter had a great reputation and a wonderful sense of humor and was
instrumental in making his fellow die cast operators and trimmers some
of the highest paid die cast employees at the time.
Ken
Zaucha Sr's passion for engineering and mathematics lead
him to work in the Rocketdyne engineering development center
located in Canoga
Park, California
while attending engineering classes at Pierce
College. His
experience at Rocketdyne, subsequently owned by Boeing and is now a subsidary of United
Technologies Corporation
(UTC) and known
as Pratt Whitney Rocketdyne, included rocket engine
building and testing at Rocketdyne's Santa Susana Field Laboratory
test facility, maintenance, overhaul and review and reporting of rocket
engine perfomance.
The
rocket engines supporting NASA's
Apollo Space
Flight Missions
(Apollo 11) and NASA's
Saturn
Space
Flight Missions
which ultimately landed the first
man on
the moon were all tested at the Santa Susana Laboratory Test Facility.
NASA
Saturn/Apollo 8 Space Flight Missions
First Man On The
Moon
First
Lunar Space Flight Mission
In
1968, Walter and Ken decided to start their own
business together and thus the legacy of KenWalt
Die Casting Company
was
born. In 1968 Walter and Ken started their own die casting
company in a rented
building on Lopez Canyon Road in Sylmar, CA. Not long before the
infamous 1971 San Fernando Earthquake, also
known as the Sylmar Earthquake, they purchased the property at
the current location at 8719 Bradley Ave Sun Valley, California.
A
close customer relationship along with a dedication to producing only
the highest quality casting is a proven formula for success. This along
with high ethics and honesty built Walter and Ken a respected
reputation with customers, suppliers and industry associates. Thin wall
gating design and "vacuum assist" casting has been utilized at KenWalt
for over ten (10) years.
KenWalt
Die Casting Company continues to expand into the 21st Century
and
gain a worldwide reputation for excellence by
producing high quality aluminum and
zinc
die castings that are key to their customer's success!
Aluminum
and Zinc
Die Casting Alloys
At
KenWalt Die Casting Company
we produce high quality Aluminum
Die Castings and
Zinc
Die Castings using all standard specification Aluminum
Alloys and Zinc
Alloys including special Aluminum and Zinc Alloys
upon
request.
Our
Facility
 NEW: 2011 EXPANSION! While
the manipulated economy weakens manufacturing in the USA and has caused
the closing of many good die casting companies, KenWalt Die Casting
Company is expanding!
 KenWalt FOUNDRY Expansion
We've just added a 6,000 square foot building to our existing 15,000 square foot building. We now
have over
20,000 square feet of clean manufacturing space devoted
entirely for
die casting high quality Aluminum and Zinc Die Casting, quality
inspections, trim die operations, machining and other secondary
operations, tool room operations, die cast molds storage, die cast
parts storage, die casting machines and foundry maintenance, aluminum
alloy metals, zinc alloy metals, gas
and lubrications storage, shipping
and receiving and our administration offices.
 KenWalt
OFFICE Expansion Following the
completion of our new 6,000 square foot building addition, our
administration offices will be expanded which will include a
new conference
room. In addition, KenWalt Die Casting
Company owns 2 acres of adjacent property for future
expansion in order to exceed our
customer's
growing needs and expectations.
We are conveniently located
adjacent to the Golden State (5) Fwy just minutes north of the
Bob
Hope
Airport (Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport) at 8719 Bradley
Ave.
in Sun
Valley, California in the county of Los Angeles (Map To KenWalt Die Casting Corporation).
COMMITMENT
TO EXCELLENCE
KenWalt
Die Casting Company is ISO
9001:2008 Quality Management System Certified and ISO/TS
16949:2002 Certification plans are
currently in-process.
We are dedicated to delivering high quality defect free castings
on-time and at competitive prices through continuous improvement of our
management, staff, products and services in order to better satisfy the
needs of our customers. We produce die cast parts in
conformance to
Automotive, Aerospace, Federal, Military and other applicable customer
specifications.
Prior
to the initiation of any
production run, all
die cast parts are visually inspected with emphasis on surface
condition,
sealing surfaces, cored holes, excessive flash, die mis-match, ejector
pin marks and
any other potential non-conforming conditions. Die set-up inspections,
Machine set-up inspections, Pre-production part inspections, Production
part inspections, Trimming inspections, Sub-Operation inspections and
Final inspections are routinely
performed during the manufacturing process to insure the highest
possible part quality is attained. Supplemental inspections
and tests are
performed as required per our customer's specific requirements
and each casting's characteristics and applications.
We
at KENWALT DIE CASTING
COMPANY
invite
you to visit our die casting facility at your convenience. You'll
discover a very clean, efficient and economical operation managed by
honest and trustworthy staff members.
CLICK
HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT DIE CASTING ALLOYS
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KenWalt
Die Casting Company
DIE
CASTING JOBS:
 Die Casting Design Engineer
Die Casting Quality Control
Die Casting Production
Die Casting Tooling Set-up
Die Casting Operators
Die Casting Sales Reps
If you
have the skills, dedication and desire to be part
of
our team complete an application and fax, mail
or Email us
along with your resume.
Download Employment Application Here
BREAKING
NEWS
KenWalt Die Casting
In
The Spotlight
TOP STORY
Special Report
MANUFACTURING
San
Fernando Valley Business Journal (www.sfvbj.com)
(March 28, 2011)
KenWalt
Die Casting is honored to have received the
prestigeous Manufacturing
Leadership Award for being one of the Top 20 Manufacturers
from the San Fernando Valley Business Journal as well as receiving a Certificate of Recognition
from the State of
California Assembly as one of the Region's Top Manufacturing
Companies and in addition for being spotlighted in the
newspaper's Current Edition Top
Story Special Report on Manufacturing:
"Manufacturers
Making It Work"
and
"Going Green"
"KenWalt
Die Casting, a very traditional industry, is using solar energy
(alternative energy) to help power its facility in Sun Valley into the
future."
Click on links
below for more:
KenWalt
Die Casting
1ST
Die
Casting Company
in USA to GO SOLAR*
KenWalt
Die Casting Expands "Green"
Facilities With Recycling and 'Solar Power'
Sun Valley, CA
In
line with our continuing commitment to make a positive impact in
society and improve lives and our environment, KenWalt Die Casting
Company is expanding upon it's 'Commitment
to Excellence'
by further
reducing our environmental impact in our newly expanded
offices, secondary facilities, new inventory facility and our
Aluminum
and Zinc
Die Casting production facility.
"Energy
conservation and recycling raw materials are two key factors in our
energy conservation efforts to enhance our activities and improve lives
and our environment. By recycling and reusing 100% of our aluminum and
zinc alloy materials as well as pallets, packaging
containers, filters and hydraulic oil used in our aluminum and
zinc die casting process, we are making a big difference", says
KenWalt's Quality Manager and Co-Owner Kenny Zaucha.
For years
KenWalt has continued to implement energy conservation actions
to
conserve materials and energy, such as using energy efficient furnaces
to melt aluminum and zinc alloys and reusing machine lubrication oils
and die sprays. From turning off little used lights to early
work schedules that avoid peek energy usage, KenWalt's
employees, both
individually and as a team, contribute to energy conservation and
improving our environment.
New for 2011,
KenWalt
Die Casting Company purchased and installed a NEW 35.9 kW SOLAR SYSTEM
thanks to the cooperation and efforts of SolarCity Corporation (SOLARCITY), Los Angeles Department
of Building & Safety
(LADBS), Los Angeles
Department of Water and Power (LADWP),
and US
Government Tax Credit Incentives. The installation of our new
clean,
renewable solar energy system will lower our aluminum and zinc die
casting operating costs, enable us to remain competitive both
nationally and internationally, continue expanding and creating more
jobs, and help us pass on those cost savings
to our customers.
*1st of 395
Aluminum Die Casting Companies in
the USA to go Solar based on preliminary research
KenWalt
Die Casting Supplies China With Die
Castings
Made in USA!
KenWalt Die
Casting ships high quality, low cost die castings overseas to our
customer in China!
Another example of
how KenWalt
Die Casting Company's knowledge, professionalism and experience
produces cost savings and success for our customers in the USA and
Overseas!
Click
below for more about:
Hidden
Costs of
Offshore
Sourcing
Die Castings
Made
in America Manufacturing Jobs Coming Home
Die
Casting Companies Ask KenWalt for Help!
An
example of what another die casting company had to say about us:
"
Thank you so much for the sample parts..We
hope the anodizing outcome will help our customer."
(One
month later) "Just to let you know that the parts anodized
beautifully. They
(our customer) were happy with the results and we were awarded the
contract.
I
hope we are in a position to be as helpful as you folks were in
getting this job. It's nice to know there are a few of us who work
together left out there."
D.S.
What some
of our satisfied customers had to say about us:
"For
us to continue a commitment of 98% on-time delivery for our
customers, we must first receive this expectation from our vendors.
Your performance has been 100%! All items shipped on-time with 0
defects. Amazing."
F.G.
"Please
thank all of your people for their efforts. The completed
product delivered to us is beautiful. We foresee many more orders!"
D.U.
"We
are very grateful for the informative discussion and tour of your
die casting facility. We were genuinely impressed with your helpful
attitude, knowledge of business and ability to explain the casting
process. Now we feel confident that our companies are in good hands!"
A.E.
"Enclosed
is a VCR tape we made of your casting in our x-ray machine.
Porosity shows in these as white specs. As you can see from the tape,
we couldn't find any in your product, so we have a winner here."
D.
"I
received a letter from our customer that awarded us with a "Preferred
Vendor Status". We met our delivery schedule and the product is
performing as expected.That could not have happened without
KenWalt...following through and making sure we met our delivery
schedules. Thanks, I've been asked to bid on the next
contract."
K.R.
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