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.

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 ...

Integrating 3D printing with standard casting methods shortens lead times and enhances production agility. Combining additive manufacturing and milling automates processes, reduces waste, and ...

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Boro Foundry cut pattern costs by 50% using fully 3D printed tooling for a complex heritage locomotive casting. STOURBRIDGE, WEST MIDLANDS, UNITED KINGDOM, May 18 ...

It's curtains for the historic Stedman Foundry pattern house near Spring Meadow Lake. Although a 2005 Environmental Assessment recommended tearing down the three-story structure because of its ...

This video demonstrates the functioning of the Nopatech patternless sand moulding technology for the manufacture of gray and ductile iron castings available from Saguenay Foundry. The footage shows a ...