Foundry

He works in a foundry.

This type foundry has not existed for almost fifteen years.

The foundry changed owners.

Due to improper procedures, the foundry had an excess of slag in the crucible.

The cost of raw materials in India has risen, creating a crisis in the foundry industry, which caters to the automobile, railway, defense, and electrical industries.

So after learning a great deal about iron founding and much more about pike fishing, one regretfully took leave of a shop full of kindly characters and proceeded to a worse lot of odours in the brass foundry. […] So after a short spell in the brass foundry the wisest course was to follow with a similar period in the steel foundry, where much important work was done, including the manufacture of centres for wheels.

Chang gained trust by allaying fears that TSMC would steal designs, as pure-play foundries have no use of them; TSMC stealing from chip designers would be like a printing press stealing plots from novelists.