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.

Curator David Webb shows off wooden patterns of gears Tuesday that are on display at Copper Village Museum and Arts Center, 401 E. Commercial St., Anaconda. It’s part of an exhibit that features ...

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 ...

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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