PIAD Precision Casting

The Leading Copper-Based Permanent Mold Foundry in the United States

Piad precision casting

Who We Are

A joint venture between the inventors of the chill cast process and an American manufacturing company, PIAD delivers original, advanced techniques in the permanent mold industry. Today, we focus on delivering our customers with tailored solutions for their current manufacturing problems.

Focusing on copper-based alloys among other elemental metal composites, PIAD has the unique ability to provide customers with unrivaled performance, quality and cost-savings due to our original PIAD Chill Cast Process. In addition, this process allows for PIAD to provide customers with exceptional mold design flexibility and relative low tooling investment.

Get in touch with our team today to learn how PIAD can solve your permanent mold manufacturing gaps.

WHY CHOOSE PIAD?

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Years in Business

Founded in 1967, PIAD Precision Casting has been delivering excellent quality and precision for over half a century.

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Successful Casting Conversions

Since introducing casting conversions to our business model, PIAD has successfully saved customers time and money by converting their functional components into near-net shape castings over 3,000 times and counting.

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Dedicated Manufacturing Staff

Combining our talented casting and cleaning team at our main facility and our exceptional LMC Machining staff, our workforce works hard to maximize quality and reduce lead times.

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SQ FT of Manufacturing Space

Our two facilities combine to allow for over 50,000 square footage of production space, making us a suitor for high-volume and quick turnaround manufacturing needs.

Services

Permanent Mold Casting

PIAD focuses on manufacturing molds made of elemental metals rather than sand. This provides customers opportunities to increase performance and reduce cycle times. Among other characteristics, our materials and method produce refined grain structure, excellent heat and electric conductivity, superior castability and more.

Casting Conversions

Now a pivotal piece of our business strategy, casting conversion refers to utilizing PIAD's Chill Cast Process to reduce or eliminate secondary manufacturing operations. By doing this, PIAD can significantly impact your supply chain by reducing lead times and saving costs. To accomplish this, PIAD produces castings comprised of copper, copper-based and other elemental-metal composites to achieve near-net shape.

Industries We Serve

At PIAD, our advanced processes and materials allow us to serve a wide variety of industries. Included below are PIAD's most commonly served industries, but we are always looking to branch out.

Electrical

Machining

Marine

Hydraulics

Automotive

Defense

Power

Rail

And Many More

Dr. Henric Adey, CEO of PIAD

Read the latest from our CEO, Dr. Henric Adey

"At PIAD, we’ve made meaningful progress this quarter — progress rooted in the core values that define who we are.

We’ve strengthened our commitment to One Team, fostering tighter collaboration across our foundry, machine shop, and engineering functions. The results are already showing — improved coordination, faster problem-solving, and a shared sense of purpose across every level of the company.

Quality remains our top priority. From the shop floor to customer delivery, every team member is embracing a mindset that excellence is not an act, but a habit.

We’ve also launched a major ERP improvement and utilization initiative, ensuring our systems fully support our people and processes. This step is central to scaling efficiently and positioning PIAD for the next phase of growth.

Finally, we’re building new connections with the academic community, opening doors to fresh ideas, talent pipelines, and future innovation partnerships that will strengthen both our industry and our local community.

Proud of our team, grateful for our customers, and excited about the road ahead.. "