Men poured molten metal into sand casts at Waterville Iron Works — which was perched on the banks of the Kennebec River — in the 1800s and early 1900s. They manufactured gears, parts for stoves, plows ...

In 1959, Bill Smith was an apprentice learning how to build the wooden patterns that foundries use to crank out everything from cast-iron cornbread skillets to the steel wheels on U.S. Army tanks.

Boro Foundry cut pattern costs by 50% using fully 3D printed tooling for a complex heritage locomotive casting.

BELOIT — Nohr LLC, a provider of foundry patterns and prototype castings based in Beloit, has acquired Westwick Foundry in Galena, Illinois, a gray and ductile iron foundry. Effective immediately, ...

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