Waupaca Foundry, Inc.

Waupaca Foundry is headquartered in Waupaca and operates seven iron casting foundries in Wisconsin, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Tennessee; and a machining and assembly plant in Illinois. With over 4,400 employees, Waupaca Foundry is the world's largest producer of gray, ductile, austempered ductile and compacted graphite iron, melting more than 10,000 tons of iron daily. Casting sizes range between 2 to 350 pounds and serve the automotive, commercial vehicle, rail, agriculture and construction markets as well as oil and gas, hydraulics, material handling and other industrial segments.

Environmental activities

Waupaca Foundry re-melts/re-uses over 800,000 tons of metal annually and 75% of the foundry's sand by-product is reused for road and general construction, agriculture and geotechnical fill.

Waupaca Foundry was awarded the 2009 Governor's Award for Environmental Excellence by the state of Wisconsin for a heat recovery project, which reduced the amount of natural gas required annually by 600,000 decatherms, an amount equivalent to the emissions from 791 passenger cars. Waupaca Foundry is also a program partner of the Better Plants Program, a U.S. Department of Energy program where they pledge to reduce industrial energy intensity by 25% over the next decade. Waupaca Foundry has a 10-year vision for sustainability with achievable goals for reducing their environmental impact:

• Reduce energy use intensity by 25%
• Promoting alternative processes and maintaining state of the art pollution control technologies
• Reducing spent foundry sand generation by 30% while promoting offsite reuse/recycling opportunities of remaining spent foundry materials to achieve zero landfill disposal
• Reduce water use consumption by 80% by 2020

Climate Action Leadership

Waupaca Foundry is a founding member of the Green Tier Charter for Climate Action and joined the charter on Earth Day, April 22, 2023.

As a participant in the charter, Waupaca Foundry established a goal to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions for Scope 1 and Scope 2 by 25% by 2030 compared to its baseline of 2019.

Waupaca Foundry has also committed to collaborating with the City of Waupaca on a local project that includes participating in Wisconsin’s Trillion Trees Pledge to help its community become more climate resilient.

Waupaca Foundry has been a leader in energy efficiency for nearly two decades and continues to take an active role in reducing its environmental footprint while helping other organizations do the same.

Documents

Waupaca Foundry's Commitment Outline details each of the benefits and requirements related to their participation in Green Tier. More information about Waupaca Foundry's Green Tier participation including the annual reports and application documents are available in an online archive.