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 ...

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 ...