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                                                                    Exhibit 24.1


                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

                  KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the undersigned
directors and officers of Shiloh Industries, Inc., a Delaware corporation,
hereby constitutes and appoints Robert L. Grissinger, Craig A. Stacy and Thomas
C. Daniels, and each of them, as the true and lawful attorney or attorneys in
fact, with full power of substitution and revocation, for each of the
undersigned and in the name, place and stead of each of the undersigned, to sign
on behalf of each of the undersigned an Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
fiscal year ended October 31, 1998 pursuant to Section 13 of the Securities and
Exchange Act of 1934 and to sign any an all amendments to such Annual Report,
and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in
connection therewith, including, without limitation, a Form 12b-25, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, granting to said attorney or
attorneys-in-fact, and each of them, full power and authority to do so and
perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and
about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned
might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorney or attorneys-in-fact or any of them or their substitute or substitutes,
may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

                  This Power of Attorney may be executed in multiple
counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original with respect to the
person executing it.

                  Executed as of this 30th day of December 1998.


/s/Dominick C. Fanello                           /s/James C. Fanello
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Dominick C. Fanello                              James C. Fanello
Vice Chairman of the Board and                   Director
Director


/s/David J. Hessler                              /s/Curtis E. Moll
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David J. Hessler                                 Curtis E. Moll
Director                                         Director


/s/James A. Karman                               /s/Theodore K. Zampetis
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James A. Karman                                  Theodore K. Zampetis
Director                                         Director


/s/Dieter Kaesgen                                /s/Richard S. Gray
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Dieter Kaesgen                                   Richard S. Gray
Director                                         Director


/s/Robert L. Grissinger                          /s/Craig A. Stacy
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Robert L. Grissinger                             Craig A. Stacy
President, Chief Executive                       Treasurer and Chief Financial
Officer (Principal Executive                     Officer (Principal Financial
Officer), Chairman of the                        and Accounting Officer)
Board