Foundry vs. Kiln — 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 kiln is a thermally insulated chamber, a type of oven, that produces temperatures sufficient to complete some process, such as hardening, drying, or chemical changes. Kilns have been used for millennia to turn objects made from clay into pottery, tiles and bricks.

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

Any of various ovens for hardening, burning, or drying substances such as grain, meal, or clay, especially a brick-lined oven used to bake or fire ceramics.

The skill or operation of founding.

To process in one of these ovens.

The castings made by founding.

An oven or furnace or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, calcining or drying anything; for example, firing ceramics, curing or preserving tobacco, or drying grain.

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.

To bake in a kiln; to fire.

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

A large stove or oven; a furnace of brick or stone, or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying anything; as, a kiln for baking or hardening earthen vessels; a kiln for drying grain, meal, lumber, etc.; a kiln for calcining limestone.

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

A furnace for burning bricks; a brickkiln.

The act, process, or art of casting metals.

A large oven for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks

The buildings and works for casting metals.

Factory where metal castings are produced