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Company Profile
Crowe Foundry was established by Bob and Don Crowe in 1953 in what was then
Hespeler, Ontario, in an effort to diversify from their established piano
plate business, operated under the name of Griffin Foundry Limited. By
1955, the two operations had amalgamated, and the jobbing side had
overtaken piano plates in importance.
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The adoption of new technology and innovative methods has always been a
priority.
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Crowe Foundry Firsts... |
In its early years Crowe Foundry was among the first in the
industry to provide lower phosphorus irons, and to use shell cores, leading
to better physical and dimensional characteristics.
We were
the first Canadian foundry to use the SO2
core making process on a production basis.
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Crowe was the first
North American iron foundry to utlize a vertical channel induction furnace
as a primary melter, in order to minimize peak electrical load and to
optimize utilization.
When that furnace was installed in 1969 it had the
world's highest power inductor, and when it was up-graded in 1974 and again
in 1979, the power limits were taken to the limits of technology. |
Currently our facilities include squeezer, automatic matchplate and cope
and drag green sand moulding, airset moulding, airset, shell, SO2
and oil-sand coremaking processes, two vertical channel furnaces and an
appropriate variety of cleaning and grinding equipment.
The company has developed a very diversified market base with a high and
growing dependence on exports. Castings, ranging in weight from ounces to a
ton, in a wide variety of grey and ductile irons and in quantities from one
piece to several thousand per release, are supplied to the electric motor,
pump and diesel engine, agricultural and other markets.
We have made a commitment to the continuing improvement of our technical
skills, our quality systems, our facilities and our health and safety
programmes in an effort to satisfy the needs of our stakeholders in the
long term. |
