page_title: Foundry products operations (Cincinnati Milling Machine)
section_title: New Foundry
hierarchical_section_title: Foundry products operations (Cincinnati Milling Machine) / New Foundry
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo taken by U.S. Government Worker in January, 1942. Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Pouring a large mold is a fiery sight. To the left, flames are shooting from an escape hole -- caused by gas generated by the contact of iron with the relatively cool sand, graphite, linseed oil and other ingredients involved in the mold structure. The man at the left is wielding a skimmer to hold back any impurities floating on the surface of the ladle iron
context_page_description: Foundry products operations (Cincinnati Milling Machine) was a subsidiary operation of the Cincinnati Milling Machine Company, a company which no longer exists. Some parts of the company evolved into the present Milacron, Inc. and Cincinnati Machine. CMM relied heavily on castings for the manufacturing of its machine tool products. The castings were produced at Cincinnati foundries owned by CMM and at foundries independent of CMM, between 1907 and 1988.
context_section_description: The New Foundry opened and poured its first heat by December 1940, about a year before the Attack on Pearl Harbor.  With the opening of the New Foundry, the company tore down the old Modern Foundry. At this site, it developed additional machining and assembly space, which enabled a sevenfold increase in production during World War II.  The Modern Foundry poured its last heat in 1941.
  The Metal Fabricating Division foundry, as it came to be called, supplied all the needs of the Cincinnati Milling Machine Company and its successor, Milacron, Inc.  At least three buildings were constructed, totaling more than 300,000 square feet (28,000 m²).
   By 1942 the Cincinnati Milling Machine Company Foundry (CMM Co. Foundry) was producing 35,000 tons of castings, with an additional 32,000 tons being purchased from other sources.   Melting in the New Foundry was done by up to four cupola furnaces.  Production in the foundry was around the clock, seven days a week.  Additional castings were needed, and the ‘Mill’ turned to outside Cincinnati local foundries.  At total of 27 outside foundries were also supplying castings to the Mill.
caption: Pouring a large mold is a fiery sight. To the left, flames are shooting from an escape hole -- caused by gas generated by the contact of iron with the relatively cool sand, graphite, linseed oil and other ingredients involved in the mold structure. The man at the left is wielding a skimmer to hold back any impurities floating on the surface of the ladle iron. This photo was taken in January 1942 by the Farm Security Administration but the foundry name was not published for security reasons. It is held in the Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
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