Fall River


Foundry Packs One-Two Punch


The brass caster wanted to add a second automated pouring line but first needed to improve its sand system. Now, after a two-year, $4-million investment, the facility has revamped its sand and molding operations. NICHOLAS LEIDER, ASSOCIATE EDITOR


gut” can make for a great suc- cess story when everything works out perfectly. But when it comes to business, and the prospect of a seven-figure investment, calculated and well-researched may be the approach more likely to pay off. Fall River Foundry, a green sand copper-base job shop in Fall River, Wis., had long considered a potential addition to its molding capabilities. Te metalcasting opera- tion ran an automated molding line that could fill large volume orders for castings anywhere from 2 to 50 lbs. Te facility also had a squeeze molding line to handle small volume orders in a variety of sizes. But while interfacing with customers over the years, company executives noticed they were unable to serve a specific area of the market. Brennen Weigel, Fall River’s


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president and CEO, had spent years planning an expansion to


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here’s a time and place for on-the-fly decisions, and “going with your


its automatic molding capabilities to handle high volume orders for so-called “trinket-sized castings,” meaning castings between 0.25-2 lbs. Fall River Foundry—the group also includes diecasting and machining


operations—could run small orders on the manual molding line or larger orders on the automatic line, but a void existed between the two. “Being a job shop, flexibility is obviously something we prioritize,”


The newly installed automatic molding line handles high volume jobs between 0.25 and 2 lbs.


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