History of Metal Casting


Metal Technologies has compiled a brief timeline of metal casting to give you an overview of the long and proud history of our industry. Since its discovery, metal casting has played a critical role in the development and advancement of human cultures and civilization. After 5000 years of technological advances, metal casting plays a greater part in our everyday lives and is more essential than it has ever been.

Metal Casting Origins

3200 B.C. A copper frog, the oldest known casting in existence, is cast in Mesopotamia.

2000 B.C. Iron is discovered.

800-700 B.C. First Chinese production of cast iron.

645 B.C. Earliest known sand molding (Chinese).

233 B.C. Cast iron plowshares are poured in China.

500 A.D. Cast crucible steel is first produced in India, but the process is lost until 1750 when Benjamin Huntsman reinvents it in England.
A Brief History of Metal Casting


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