A steel foundry is a metal casting manufacturing facility where metals are cast into forms by heating them until turning them into liquid, depositing the liquid material into a mold, and then extracting the mold material once the metal has hardened as it cools.
In a foundry, the molten metal (consisting of ferrous or non-ferrous alloys) is cast directly into sand or metal moulds that reproduce in negative the geometry of the piece to be made, in which the metal solidifies. Once cooled, the casting is extracted from the mould and subjected to finishing operations.
