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Hamlin Casting Corp., located in Pilot Mountain, is the most productive U.S. foundry that makes money molding metal with sand. The technique is called sand-casting and was developed by the Chinese centuries ago. Hamlin began using a similar technique in 1946. The company began in Illinois but moved to Pilot Mountain in 1985. The company has sand-cast over sixty million pounds of parts for the marine, electrical, trucking, aerospace, and other industries.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 33 Issue 5, May 2013,
p62-67, il
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