Thursday, June 6, 2013

Casting A Silver Paw Pet Tag: The Lost Wax Foundry Process In Maine

We cast our very own ID tags at this foundry here in western Maine. As you can see from the video, it is a very labor intensive process involving many steps. We're so proud to be keeping our operations here in the US. This foundry supports some 20 employees who all take their jobs very seriously and do a detail oriented, quality job.

Every one of our tags is handled over and over again at the casting facility and inspected several times before they are brought to the Silver Paw shop for finishing and engraving. There are many reject castings.

We extend a sincere thanks to New England Castings for allowing us in to shoot the footage for this video. The casting environment is one fraught with hazards, noise, and heavy equipment. We were privileged to be allowed into the normal workings of a foundry, whose workplace we surely interrupted...

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