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Glidewell Specialties Foundry is a full service foundry with the capability to take a design from the blueprint stage all the way through to a machined and assembled product. The company produces castings that range from 300 to 30,000 pounds in gray iron and 300 to 28,000 pounds in ductile iron. Glidewell is a privately held company with approximately 100 employees. Located in Calera, Ala., Glidewell Foundry sits on 20 acres of land and has 150,000 square feet of covered workspace. Glidewell Specialties Foundry Company was founded in 1962 and originally serviced the local Birmingham steel mills and railroad wheel manufacturers. In the late 1960's the foundry began to produce castings for the coke oven industry and by the early 1970's was shipping castings to steel mills all over the eastern half of the United States. The company is a member of the Ductile Iron Society, and has been since 1992.