MetalTek International history

1952: Carondelet Foundry installs one of the world's first spectrographs for metal heat analysis.

1954: Sandusky Foundry produces first stainless steel suction shell and continued to advance centrifugal technology.

1960: Wisconsin Centrifugal Foundry acquires Wisconsin Stainless Foundry & Machine Corp. to add stainless capability.

1964: Sandusky Foundry adds Sandusky Limited location in Glenrothes, Scotland.

1966: Wisconsin Centrifugal Foundry changes name to Wisconsin Centrifugal, Inc.

The next major innovation to the casting world came half a century later when ESCO Corp. was the first steel foundry to make alloys through the process of Argon Oxygen Decarburization (AOD) in 1973.

1974: Southern Centrifugal Division founded as a maker of centrifugally cast bronze gears.

1975: Sandusky International introduced first high corrosion resistant/low residual stress duplex stainless steel for paper mill suction roll shells.

1978: Wisconsin Investcast Division founded as Waukesha Foundry producing investment castings.

1980: Wisconsin Centrifugal merged with Anaconda Brass to become Arco Metals.

1983: Waukesha Foundry expands with building a new 46,000 sq ft. facility.

1984: Sandusky International patented “Alloy 86” dramatically extending life.

1985: Wisconsin Centrifugal purchased by a group of investors including Carter Paden, President of Southern Centrifugal.

1989: Waukesha Foundry purchased by Wisconsin Centrifugal.

Finally, the latest game-changer for the casting industry came from the Department of Energy Metal Casting Competitiveness Research Act enacted by the US Senate and House of Representatives in 1990.

1991: Carondelet Foundry breaks ground for the current state-of-the-art facility in Pevely, MO.

1997: Carondelet Foundry acquired by SW Centrifugal to expand sand capabilities.

1998: Southern Centrifugal purchases Bearium Metals to add to low-friction bronze.

In fact, each MetalTek division has its own unique history that goes back far before the founding of MetalTek International in 1999.

2002: Wisconsin Investcast expands by adding a new shell line and square footage.

2007: Wisconsin Investcast achieves Nadcap certification for supplier of Aerospace and Defense products.

2008: Carondelet Division expands into patternless molding to respond to demand for quick turnaround, low volume castings.

2010: Sandusky International and Sandusky Limited join MetalTek International.

2014: MetalTek launches Delivering More Than Metal initiative to drive customer service excellence.

2016: All MetalTek divisions achieve record safety performance.

When the scale of COVID-19 became apparent in 2020, MetalTek CEO E.J. Kubick issued a companywide communication stating that he had two priorities: to ensure that every employee was safe, and to ensure that every employee kept their job.