Foundry vs. Factory — What's the Difference?

A foundry is a factory that produces metal castings. Metals are cast into shapes by melting them into a liquid, pouring the metal into a mold, and removing the mold material after the metal has solidified as it cools.

A factory, manufacturing plant or a production plant is an industrial site, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another. They are a critical part of modern economic production, with the majority of the world's goods being created or processed within factories.

An establishment where metal objects are made by melting metal and pouring it into molds.

A building or group of buildings in which goods are manufactured; a plant.

The skill or operation of founding.

See factory ship.

The castings made by founding.

A business establishment for commercial agents or factors in a foreign country.

A facility that melts metals in special furnaces and pours the molten metal into molds to make products. Foundries are usually specified according to the type of metal dealt with: iron foundry, brass foundry, etc.

The source of prolific production

The act, process, or art of casting metals; founding.

The position or state of being a factor.

A plant that produces chips out of semiconductors in the microelectronics industry.

A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.

The act, process, or art of casting metals.

A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.

The buildings and works for casting metals.

A police station.

Factory where metal castings are produced

A device or process that produces or manufactures something.

A factory farm.

(programming) In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.

Having come from the factory in the state it is currently in; original, stock.

A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers.

The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory.

A building, or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods; the place where workmen are employed in fabricating goods, wares, or utensils; a manufactory; as, a cotton factory.

A plant consisting of buildings with facilities for manufacturing