Columns: Sourcing q&a

AFS Corporate Member Howell Foundry carved out a distinct niche in the metalcasting industry by specializing in fast-turn, high-complexity steel castings for customers who can’t afford to wait.

Traditional, one-man leadership has been replaced by something that works better at AFS Corporate Member PIAD Precision Casting Corp., a non-ferrous foundry 38 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.

Two days before Thanksgiving Day 2021, Mequon, Wisconsin-based Charter Manufacturing announced it had bought AFS Corporate Member Aarrowcast Inc., a gray and ductile iron foundry in Shawano, Wiscon

AFS Corporate Member Fall River Foundry, named after the Wisconsin town in which it was founded in 1953, is one of the largest job-shop manufacturers of brass castings in the world.