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Southern Ductile Casting Company, Bessemer Foundry, 2217 Carolina Avenue, Bessemer, Jefferson County, AL
Location2217 Carolina Avenue,
Bessemer, AL
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1968.
Notes
Survey number HAER AL-125
Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (N177).
Significance: Southern Ductile grew from a very small, unautomated, traditional jobbing foundry into a highly mechanized and automated firm, generally uncharacteristic for the type of contact work it did. It was one of the first in the Birmingham District to implement ductile iron that, over the course of its first thirty years, virtually replaced malleable iron and severely limited foundry steel production. Further the company survived a pollution crisis that forced the closure of several smaller firms, by adapting more expensive, but cleaner electric induction furnaces that ultimately proved to be not only a solution to their clean air concerns, but also an ideal medium to manufacture ductile iron.
Collection
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
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1. SOUTHERN DUCTILE CASTING COMPANY, VIEW SOUTH ALONG CAROLINA AVENUE.
2. SOUTHERN DUCTILE CASTING COMPANY, BACK SIDE OF FURNACE AND MOLDING BUILDINGS SHOWING CONNECTIONS TO LOCAL POWER GRID, PRIMARILY FOR ELECTRIC FURNACES.
3. SOUTHERN DUCTILE CASTING COMPANY, NW BY 330, ON 22ND AVENUE, NOTE HOUSING ON THE LEFT.
4. SOUTHERN DUCTILE CASTING COMPANY, NE BY 58.
5. SOUTHERN DUCTILE CASTING COMPANY ALONG CAROLINA AVENUE HOUSING IN FOREGROUND.
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