Examples from literature

• I must get a proper casting made at a foundry. 
• Indeed it seems that every colony, except Georgia, had its iron foundry. 
• The chief industry is cotton, but there are also shipbuilding yards, engineer shops, and foundries. 
• The young man's work in the foundry alternated weekly between day and night duty. 
• While the foundries and steel mills are making the metal-work the foundations are being laid.