EXHIBIT 24.1
                          AMCAST INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION
                            LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY

         WHEREAS, Amcast Industrial Corporation, an Ohio corporation (the
"Company"), intends to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission under
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), (i) a Registration Statement
on Form S-8 covering an additional 100,000 of its common shares, without par
value, that may be issued under the Company's Amended and Restated 1999 Director
Stock Incentive Plan; (ii) a Registration Statement on Form S-8 covering an
additional 425,000 of its common shares, without par value, that may be issued
under the Company's Amended and Restated 1999 Stock Incentive Plan; (iii) a
Registration Statement on Form S-8 covering an additional 25,000 of its common
shares, without par value, that may be issued to non-employee directors of the
Company in payment of their annual retainer, (iv) a Registration Statement on
Form S-8 covering 50,000 deferred compensation obligations that may be issued
pursuant to Company's Nonqualified Salary Deferral Plan, and (v) a Registration
Statement on Form S-8 covering an additional 500,000 of its common shares,
without par value, that may be issued under the Company's 401(k) Salary Deferral
Plan (together, the "Registration Statement").

         NOW THEREFORE, the undersigned, in his capacity as a director of the
Company, hereby appoints Byron O. Pond and Samuel T. Rees, and each of them, to
be his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of
substitution and resubstitution, to execute his name, place and stead, as
aforesaid, the Registration Statement and any post-effective amendments thereto,
and any and all other instruments necessary or incidental in connection
therewith, and to file the same with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Said attorney shall have full power and authority to do and perform, in the name
and on behalf of the undersigned, every act whatsoever necessary or desirable to
be done, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could
do in person. The undersigned hereby ratifies and approves the acts of said
attorney.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this instrument this
13th day of May, 2002.

 /s/ Leo W. Ladehoff                        /s/ Walter E. Blankley
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Leo W. Ladehoff                            Walter E. Blankley


 /s/ Peter H. Forster                       /s/ Don R. Graber
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Peter H. Forster                           Don R. Graber


 /s/ Joseph R. Grewe                        /s/ Bernard G. Rethore
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Joseph R. Grewe                            Bernard G. Rethore


 /s/ William G. Roth                        /s/ R. William Van Sant
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William G. Roth                            R. William Van Sant