Tupy S.A has an annual production capacity of 500 thousand metric tons of cast iron components. Its parts (designed for brake, propulsion, transmission/steering, and axle/suspension systems) are made for trucks, buses, utility and passenger vehicles, tractors, and other types of agricultural machinery. Tupy also makes malleable cast iron parts, iron and steel shots and grits, and continuous cast bars for the civil construction, marble and granite, and other industrial engineering markets. The company, founded in 1938, sells to Ford, Chrysler, Cummins, and Mack Trucks, among others.