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Canadian manufacturing company
Haley Industries
is a Canadian company that manufactures lightweight metal castings for use in aerospace applications. It was a prime contributor to the
Avro Arrow
aircraft project.
Origins
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Haley Industries (originally known as Light Alloys Limited) was founded in 1952 in
Haley Station, Ontario
(approximately 100 km west of Canada's capital city
Ottawa
). It was set up with the support of the Canadian government in order to contribute to the development of Canada's fledgling aerospace industry.
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The site chosen was close to the Dominion Magnesium smelter, a producer of
magnesium
metal using the
Pidgeon process
which was pioneered there.
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Involvement with the Avro Arrow
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In 1953 Canada decided to design and build a
supersonic
interceptor aircraft
to be known as the
Avro (CF-105) Arrow
. The aircraft was to be built by
Avro Canada
and to achieve speeds up to
Mach
2. In order to achieve this, use was to be made of magnesium and
titanium
metals to save weight. The aircraft first flew in 1958, but delays, rising costs and a change of government led to the programme's cancellation in 1959.
Subsequent history
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The 10 years following the cancellation of the Arrow were difficult, and the company had to diversify into the commercial market. It was privatized in 1967, and in 1981, it was listed on the
Toronto Stock Exchange
. In 1984 it purchased the Presto Casting Company of
Phoenix, Arizona
. Haley and Presto are now owned by the
Magellan Aerospace
Corporation,
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and continues to make lightweight castings for air, space and specialized engineering applications. As of 2007, the company employed 391 full and part-time employees
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and is still located in Haley Station.
In 2004, the company was named as one of Ontario's three worst
water polluters
by the
Sierra Legal Defence Fund
. Their report was based on violations occurring in 2001, when Haley recorded 82 water pollution violations.
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References
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"Magellan Aerospace Corporation."
Archived
2003-02-14 at
archive.today
Haley Industries page,
2003. Retrieved: December 5, 2007.
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Friedrich, Horst E.; Mordike, Barry L. (2006).
Magnesium Technology
. Springer Science & Business Media.
doi
:
10.1007/3-540-30812-1
.
ISBN
3-540-20599-3
.
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"Magellan Aerospace bids for Haley Industries."
CBC News
, July 3, 2002. Retrieved: December 5, 2007.
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"Renfrew, Ontario: Manufacturing and industry directory."
Archived
2009-08-28 at the
Wayback Machine
redc.ca.
Retrieved: December 5, 2007.
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"Renfrew firm named No. 3 water polluter."
The Ottawa Citizen
, March 23, 2004. Retrieved: December 5, 2007.
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