Harold Watson started HFW Industries Incorporated in 1947 in a two car garage. World War II had ended only two years prior, and the United States emerged as a global […]
The compliance landscape for United States defense contractors underwent a major shift on June 30. With Section 805 of the Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) now officially […]
The first time Marisa Holding heard about Cast in Steel, an upperclassman walked into the University of Wisconsin–Madison holding what looked like a spear. Not a prop. Not a replica […]
Craftsman and retired Marine Corps Sergeant Major Jason DiCosimo started blacksmithing simply because one of his woodworking clients needed custom metalwork. But after he forged metal for the first time, […]
METAL, led by IACMI – The Composites Institute®, and funded by the Department of War’s IBAS Program, was built to revitalize American manufacturing through hands-on training. Now, in a new […]
Russell Winter has spent most of his life on a machine shop floor. As a third-generation tool and die maker, Winter cut his teeth at his grandfather’s company in Illinois, […]
Keystone Development Partnership (KDP) launched 20 years ago after a massive skills gap derailed Pennsylvania’s transportation industry. Now, America’s metal industry faces a similar situation. An unprecedented labor gap has […]
Nothing could have prepared me for my first time in a foundry. Yet there I was at Erie Bronze and Aluminum Co., mesmerized by the sound of grinding machines, the […]
Heat. It whooshed past me as big buckets of bubbling bronze moved through the air, tethered to a crane, with one large, silver-clothed man guiding them from one place to […]
Sparks flew as students from Tennessee School for the Deaf turned a university foundry into their classroom. Through METAL’s hands-on workshop, eight high school students pounded sand molds, poured molten […]
The first time Bruce Barron walked into Barron Industries’ investment casting facility, he found a dimly lit room with low ceilings, barely the size of a basketball court, and a […]
Dr. Alexandra (Allie) Glover remembers her grandfather, Douglas Glover, by his quirky inventions, from a mechanical cherry pitter to a peanut butter stirrer, and his passion for metallurgy. He was […]
