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Somerset Consolidated Industries has the unique qualification of “uncommon capability.” An unusual statement, but that’s exactly the way one customer described the company. The diversity of iron castings produced by the two foundries comprising Somerset Consolidated Industries has earned the company the reputation that, if it’s possible to cast, Somerset can do it.

Somerset Consolidated Industries, Inc. is the parent company for:

• Somerset Foundry and Machining Company, Somerset, PA
• Watsontown Foundry, Watsontown, PA

The two foundries produce a variety of iron jobbing castings with weight ranging from a few ounces to 18,000 pounds. Commercially known cast irons produced by one or more of the two foundries include:

• Gray Iron

• Low Alloy

• White Iron

• Ductile Iron

• Ni Hard Castings

• Ni Resis

• High Chromium Irons

With a marketing philosophy aimed at soliciting the unusual along with the usual and a corporate policy of utilizing modern technology in a continuing program to improve methods and facilities, Somerset Consolidated Industries may indeed have “uncommon capability.”

Somerset Foundry, located 70 miles east of Pittsburgh, PA on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, offers their customers the capability, at one plant, of having castings produced in a multitude of metal types and size ranges. This jobbing and semi-production foundry has distinguished itself in various industries for its ability to promptly deliver high quality, intricately cored large castings. The foundry has established relationships with various suppliers, which means Somerset has the ability to meet customer’s productions needs, such as machining and heat treating.

Watsontown Foundry was founded in the 1880’s. Originally a captive foundry for a railroad car builder, it became a job shop foundry in the early 1900’s. Serving customers in 10 states and Canada, the foundry manufactures cored pressure castings for producers of steam turbines, water pumps and valves, compressors, fluid power pumps and valves and mechanical transmission equipment. Watsontown Foundry is located 15 miles south of Williamsport, PA and is within 4 hours truck drive from New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore, Hagerstown, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Erie and Buffalo.