U.S. CENSUS
Census of U.S. Casting Production
This survey of domestic metalcasting facilities breaks the market down a step further than the global census.
An MCDP Staff Report O
hio has the most metalcasting facilities. The largest casting company in the country has 3,000 employees in multiple plants. Almost 50% of you
would prefer not to tell us how much you made last year. The first ever MODERN CASTING cen-
sus of the domestic metalcasting industry examined 1,644 plants, nearly 80% of the
estimated 2,040 operating in the country today. The details provided by each plant include their location, employee number, sales figures, casting weights produced, average production runs, ma- terials poured and processes conducted. Following are the results of the survey.
Breakdown by State Ohio (9.6% of the total), Penn-
sylvania (7.9%), California (7.5%), Wisconsin (7.4%) and Illinois (6.9%) have the greatest number of metal- casting facilities in the nation. Alaska and Wyoming have the fewest, each with 0.1% of the total. Fig. 1. offers the full state-by-state breakdown of the industry.
Breakdown by Employees The majority of the facilities in the
country (57.5% of respondents) have between 1 and 59 employees. About 32% have 1-29 employees; 25.3% have 30-59. (Two hundred seventy nine plants did not respond to this question.) The largest number of employees
reported by any one company was 3,000. After eliminating the greatest and least numbers of employees re- ported (to correct for the extremes), the average number of employees per facility was 103. The median number of employees (the center of the distribution) was 43.5. Only 1.1% of facilities reported more than 1,000 employees. Of the 1,354 facilities that
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