Company Profile
In over 40 years of serving the metal casting, forging, heat treating, brazing, bonding, shrink fitting, catheter tip forming, and crystal growing industries, our enthusiasm for heating metal has always been strong.  Our head office is located in Brookfield, Wisconsin in the United States and satellite operations are located in Holland, the United Kingdom, South Africa and Shanghai China.  The addition of our newest sister company, ABP Induction {formerly ABB}, enables us to further enhance our service offerings and operate as an independent, responsive, world wide operating company {note: ABP’s head office is located in Dortmund and has a satellite company in Sweden}.

Oranizational Profile
Pillar and ABP have been building industrial furnaces in many countries since 1919. Many years of experience, thorough research and development form the basis for a range of products meeting both the technical and the economic requirements of the customers.

Our Product Range

• Melting furnaces for cast iron, steel, bronze and precious metals
• Holding furnaces for cast iron, steel and bronze metals
• Induction heated pouring furnaces for gray, malleable and nodular cast iron
• Induction forging systems
• Induction tube heating systems
• Induction brazing and mass heating systems
• Induction heat treating systems
• Induction crystal growing systems
• Induction catheder tip forming systems
• Bonding glass and plastic to metal through induction

For the individual plants, Pillar offers accessory equipment that helps the operator to enhance reliability, optimize individual operating cycles, shorten downtimes or upgrade existing furnace plants.  For more information about Pillar Induction feel free to call 1-800-558-7733 or email sales.

Professional Organizations

• American Foundry Society
• ASM International
• American Welding Society
• Cast Metals Institute
• Ductile Iron Society
• Forging Industry Association
• Investment Casting Institute
• Iron Casting Research Institute
• Non-Ferrous Founders’ Society
• North American Die Casting Association
• Society of Manufacturing Engineers
• Steel Founders’ Society of America
• Wire Association International