WEATHERLY (PA), Thursday, April 27, 2000 - Weatherly Casting and Machine Company; a leading manufacturer of specialty alloy irons for the power generation, material handling, mining and pump industries; has scheduled a complete renovation on their heat treat furnace. After many years of solid and reliable service Weatherly Casting and Machine Company has planned to completely renovate and refurbish its car bottom heat treat furnace with the latest materials and controls available in the industry. "This will further allow Weatherly Casting to continue with precision heat treat cycles to provide optimum properties for the wear materials and specialty alloys provided to our customers." stated President, Michael J. Leib. The heat treat renovation will commence on June 30, 2000 and continue through July 12th when it is expected that Weatherly will resume heat treat operations. "The renovation of the heat treat oven comes on the heels of installing a new Palmer continuous mixer in the large bay of the Foundry molding area. The new Palmer mixer is a 1000#/minute articulating arm mixer which will further help to improve quality for our large casting production," said Leib. 

Weatherly is a highly versatile and fully integrated foundry and machine shop with unique abilities to solve the most difficult casting challenges in various iron alloys. Weatherly dates to 1900 and was one of the first foundries to pour abrasion resistant iron alloys. Weatherly's trademark, Diamite alloys are state of the art and used world wide to solve the most difficult material handling problems. With an on site pattern shop, machine shop, heat treat facility and casting operations, Weatherly will transform engineering drawings, data, or information into fully designed product to meet customer specifications.