Nathan Janco founded Centrifugal Casting Machine Company in 1940. “Nat was universally acknowledged as a pioneer in the field of casting machine design and one of the foremost authorities on the subject of centrifugal casting. During WWII, Nat was the centrifugal casting expert on the U.S. War Metallurgy Committee. Nat held several U.S. patens and was the designer of numerous horizontal, vertical and face-plate machines, as well as special purpose machines for high production. Nat pioneered the centrifugal casting of plastics, magnesium sludge, uranium and titanium, in addition to centrifugal vacuum casting. He authored the book Centrifugal Casting (Dynamic) and wrote articles which appeared frequently in the American Foundrymen’s Society’ Transactions.” Nathan Janco passed away in 2006 at the age of 95. In 1980 Janco sold Centrifugal Casting Machine Co., Inc. to Tom McKee a Tulsa businessman. McKee worked with a sales team and a group of engineers to grow CCMCO into a world renowned company. Under McKee, CCMCO expanded into China and into high production markets such as ductile iron pipe, soil pipe and cylinder liners. Und McKee, company was also ISO 9000 certified. Tom McKee passed away in 2003 and CCMCO continues to operate as a family owned business. Sue McKee, Tom’s widow is President and two of his three children are active in the company.
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