Company description
Csepel Iron Foundry Ltd. was established in 1911 by Manfred Weiss, since this time it has been working at its' present location in Csepel Industry Park. Until the middle of the 60es its' main challenge was - as part of the holding company in the industry park - to satisfy the castings demand of brother companies like the tool-machine company, the individual machine company, motorbike production and the tube-works. From 1966 - when a significant change has taken place in the profile of production - castings for vehicles became the main product group - first of all the 6-cylinder motorblock made on the basis of the German MAN licence - keeping however also product categories from earlier. From this time until the beginning of the 90es it is the biggest foundry at one location in Hungary: 35.000 Tons of grey and spheroidal graphite iron castings, 5.000 Tons of steel castings and 1.000 Tons of precision castings were produced hear annually at that time. This is the place where most new processes in foundry technology have been introduced in the country, this is the place where the Meehanite licence - the predecessor of all quality assurance systems of today - firstly has been employed in practice (since 1978). At the beginning of the 90es it has lost most of its'markets and confronted a situation where it had to give up a great deal of its' capacities and reshape to find more stable markets. In 1995 the foundry have been bought up by the American Universal Automotve Inc (IL). Until 2004 the foundry was in American ownership, since then it however has returned to Hungarian hands. Information as to the turnover of the company you can find under Topicalities.
In past decades the foundry specialized in the production of complex grey and nodular iron castings of high core demand. To face up to this challange a well-trained and educated team of ingenieers and experts of widespread experience have been set up. This guarantees our presence at the markets of the EU and the USA, which are nowadays decisive in our sales activities.