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Waukesha Foundry Company
Richards and Sunset avenues
1958
08 27 Perfect safety record achieved
by local branch plant again in 1957 WDT
1982
07 21 Waukesha
Foundry Division, Abex Corp, announced plans to build a $4.3 million, 40,000
square foot addition in Watertown, and named Larry Palzewic superintendent of
the new facility. Frank M. Holmes, general manager of manufacturing at the
parent plant, said plans to expand the Watertown investment facility were
finished by the board of directors this week.
Palzewic said the new facility will produce stainless steel castings,
while the old building will be kept in use, primarily for copper-based,
nickel-silver and bronze castings. Most
of the plant's current employees will work in the new foundry and more
employees will be hired as the workload increases. WDT
09 01 Waukesha Foundry, a
division of Abex, will be allowed to build an extension within 15 feet of
Sunset Avenue but the firm will have to meet several conditions set by the
Watertown Board of Zoning Appeals. There
were few objections at a public hearing Aug. 24 to the variance itself, but the
conditions set by the board aim at allaying concerns expressed by residents of
the Richard’s Hill area about noise and air pollution. Although located in an industrial cluster,
Waukesha Foundry, 661 South Twelfth Street, is near a residential neighborhood,
across the street from Washington Park and within view of Webster School. The company’s property is bounded by Sunset
Avenue on the north, Richards Avenue on the east, Sherman Street on the
southeast, the Milwaukee Road tracks on the southwest and Twelfth Street on the
west. WDT
1983
06 14 Residents can get a first-hand look at Waukesha Foundry's new
40,000 square foot investment casting plant at an open house Sunday. The $4.1 million facility, located at the
corner of Richards and Sunset avenues, is one of the most advanced in the
United States. Special features include
two programmable dipping robot systems, automatic conveyers for controlled
drying of casting molds, among the largest wax presses and melting furnaces in
the industry and a “quality assurance monorail” system. WDT
