Definition of iron foundry in English:
iron foundry
nounPlural iron foundries
A workshop or factory for casting iron or iron alloys.
the building was originally an iron foundry
Example sentencesExamples
- The Black Country gained its name in the mid-19th century due to smoke from the thousands of iron foundries and 30ft thick coal seams.
- The company started life as a small-scale iron foundry unit in Nagpur and is now the flagship company of the whole group.
- Our silicon metal and alloys find applications in the field of semiconductor, automobile, steel and aluminum manufacturing and iron foundries.
- The company operates a pig iron unit, a grey cast iron foundry, cement unit, and coke conversion plant.
- Once an iron foundry, the building, built in 1896, has been bought by developers who won't renew the lease.
- The quarry was operated during the mid-nineteenth century for limestone, which was used as a flux at local iron foundries.
- In 1903, Birmingham was a center of industry with its iron foundries flourishing.
- Iron foundries, heavy industry and heavy cars were plentiful in the upper Midwestern US.
- He was born in Port Talbot, a tough industrial town in Wales where the main source of employment was the iron foundry.
- The coal is exported to Germany and Spain where it is used in iron foundries.