Visitors to Clarksville Foundry can’t help but notice the sculpture on the front lawn. At 12-feet tall, the 8,000 pound ductile iron bobbin in front of Clarksville Foundry’s building is hard to miss. Weathered to a rusty finish in the years since it was installed, the “Rosette Bobbin” sculpture is a giant example of the […]

Clarksville, Tennessee — From an idea and some scrap metal, Clarksville Foundry can produce any number of functional, decorative or commemorative items for any type of customer, including manufacturers, municipalities, architects, historical foundations and groups. Like many projects, one of the Foundry’s recent castings, now referred to as the “Currahee Commander’s Cup,” began as an idea […]

The Clarksville Foundry was featured in the August issue of Metal Casting Design & Purchasing for its work on the exterior staircase treads produced for Robinson Iron and Bevill State Community College in northern Alabama. Click more  to view a spread of the feature or visit Metal Casting Design & Purchasing’s web site. Clarksville Foundry […]

Foust uses history book to make pattern By Stacy Smith Segovia The Leaf-Chronicle The Pattern for a 6-Pounder Gun That the Foundry Used to Make A Civil War Cannon Reproduction Charles Foust Jr., president of Clarksville Foundry since 1981, enjoys seeing molten metal become specialized metal components. "For me, it’s fun to make stuff, " […]

Age-old process stands test of time By Stacy Smith Segovia, The Leaf-Chronicle Businesses come and go, some prospering during boom times then folding when the economy is shaky, as it is now. But Clarksville is home to many businesses that have weathered good and bad times. One of Clarksville’s oldest, longest-lasting businesses may be a […]

Clarksville, Tenn. — Clarksville Foundry, Inc., an iron foundry with more than 150 years of experience and one of Tennessee’s oldest manufacturing companies, is still going strong. The Foundry that once made Civil War munitions, corn shellers and manhole covers now casts a wide variety of modern industrial components used in commercial coffee grinders, manufacturing […]