PITTSBURGH FOUNDRY & MACHINE CO

Did you know that we can make and pour a wide variety of castings? Some of our smallest castings are decorative restoration pieces and grates for furnaces, with the smallest being 1-pound and the largest castings running up to 1,500-pound sewage valves and ash pipes. Here are some photos of a restoration project we tackled in Evansville, IN on Millionaire's Row along the Ohio Riverfront a few years ago.

On Wednesday, February 19th, several of our women volunteered at BotsIQ's Girls Exploring Engineering Day. They presented "Foundry-in-a-Box" demonstrations to over 250 middle and high school girls, and the girls were able to take home their very own casting! Explore some of the photos of this fun event! Our next "Foundry-in-a-Box" demonstration is at the Greater Latrobe Jr. High School on March 14th.

This month, we celebrated the workaversaries of four of our employees. We applaud Larry May, our maintenance and special molding expert with 23 years, Jason Humberson, our molder with 2 years, and David McKenzie, our shipper/blaster with 1 year. In our Pittsburgh office, we celebrated Melissa Sroka with 3 years of service. Congratulations! We appreciate all that you do here!

We wanted to share one of the more interesting restoration projects we have tackled. We worked with Skanska Koch Inc. on the restoration of the Manhattan Bridge. Here’s an article from Untapped Cities on the missing globes: The Manhattan Bridge Globes Have Begun to Reappear - Untapped New York. We molded and poured the ornamental rosettes, ornamental balls, cornices, brackets, straps, plates, and bands here at WSF. This was an extensive project that we worked on for several years and we have to say the finished castings look great! Check out some of the photos from this project including some of the installation pictures from the top of the bridge.?

This month, we are celebrating the workaversaries of four of our employees. With a combined experience of 63 years between the four of them, Wayne Patton, a core maker with 39 years, Blane Knupp, our General Manager with 14 years, Robert Foor, our Shipping and Finishing Manager with 5 years, and Aaron Shroyer, a grinder with 5 years, are our employees we are celebrating during January. Congratulations, guys! We appreciate all that you do here!

Warm wishes to you and yours. Happy Holidays from all of us at Pittsburgh and West Salisbury Foundry! We will be closed from December 24th until January 2nd so our team members can enjoy the holidays with their families.

Early this past fall, we completed the castings for a restoration project on 6th Street NW and R Street in Washington, D.C. We made the post caps in these photos.

We may be a little late, but we wanted to wish all our West Salisbury team members (who we've missed in our anniversary posts) a happy work anniversary! We have Sean Smith (16 years), Brady Knupp (6 years), and Romulo Gabuya (10 years) in March. Our June Anniversary was Bryant Most celebrating 3 years with the company. In July, we celebrated Chauncey Gnagey (1 year), Brad Deffenbaugh (5 years), and Brian Most (30 years). Donald Patton celebrated 36 years with us in August and Owen Crissey celebrated 1 year in September. Our October workaversaries were Terry Brown (40 years), Lonny Doyle (1 year), George Cook (5 years), Tanner Shearer (7 years), Caleb Murray (7 years), and Leroy Shroyer (30 years). And in December, we are celebrating Seth Rubright and Emily Cook both with 5 years with the company. Congratulations to all of our hardworking employees! We appreciate each and every one of you!

Hi All! We've been quiet for a while, but we're back. Here's what we've been doing, and these are just some of the projects you can expect in our upcoming posts. Stay tuned!