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The American Foundry Society (AFS) is a professional, technical and trade association for foundries and the broader metal casting industry. [3] The society promotes the interests of foundries to policymakers, provides training for foundry workers, and supports research and technological advancements in foundry science and manufacturing.
The particular emphasis was on foundry and forge technology to meet the demand of trained manpower in the primary metal manufacturing sectors like automobile, heavy engineering, machine and component manufacturing etc. Two carefully designed advanced diploma courses, namely foundry and forge technology, were offered. [6]
Saginaw Metal Casting Operations is an automobile engine foundry plant in Saginaw, Michigan. Opened under GM management in 1919, the factory produces engine blocks and cylinder heads for General Motors vehicles. The factory currently occupies 1.9 million square feet on 490 acres.
Tonawanda Engine is a General Motors engine factory in Buffalo, New York.The plant consists of three facilities totaling 3.1 million square feet (290,000 m 2) and sits upon 190 acres (77 ha).
Waupaca Foundry, Inc. is an American company founded in 1955 that is among the largest independent iron foundries in the world. Formerly known as ThyssenKrupp Waupaca , it produces gray, ductile, and compacted graphite iron castings.
Casting at an iron foundry: From Fra Burmeister og Wain's Iron Foundry, 1885 by Peder Severin Krøyer. An ironworks or iron works is an industrial plant where iron is smelted and where heavy iron and steel products are made. The term is both singular and plural, i.e. the singular of ironworks is ironworks.
The Vulcan Works at Thornton Road, Bradford was a spacious and handsome factory. It was described in Industries of Yorkshire as the largest of their kind in Bradford, and the centre and headquarters of an industry of magnificent dimensions and condition throughout.
The Civil War Visitor Center at Tredegar Iron Works is located in the restored pattern building and offers three floors of exhibits, an interactive map table, a film about the Civil War battles around Richmond, a bookstore, and interpretive NPS rangers on site daily to provide programs and to aid visitors.