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.

This video demonstrates the pattern-free iron castings using Saguenay Foundry’s Nopatech. The company developed this new moulding technology to produce complex iron castings without pattern in just a ...

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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 ...