Mayor Todd Barton recently visited the headquarters property of AMERICAN Cast Iron Pipe Company (AMERICAN) in Birmingham, Alabama to continue building city relations with our local industrial partner last week.
Barton spent a full day meeting with company officials and visiting the foundry area of the factory, where metals are melted down to be cast for production.
“The purpose of these visits is to continue to expand AMERICAN’s understanding of the city’s support for their local facility and communicate our readiness for economic expansion,” Barton said. “I wanted to go down to AMERICAN’s headquarters and thank them for investing in us. We are lucky to have a great partnership with them, and we are aware of the importance of partnerships like these that keep Crawfordsville in the front running for new growth and opportunity in the future.”
In 2019, AMERICAN Flow Control, the valve and hydrant division of AMERICAN Cast Iron Pipe Company announced the formation of AMERICAN Innovation LLC, a company dedicated to research and development. The company constructed a 30,000-square-foot facility, named the AMERICAN Flow Control Center for Innovative Excellence, in Crawfordsville. The site in Crawfordsville was selected due to the variable weather conditions in the area, which is ideal for testing product durability.
AMERICAN Flow Control develops and manufactures fire hydrants for municipal and industrial fire protection applications, tapping sleeves, hydrant security, remote pressure monitoring technology and more. Other divisions of the company manufacture ductile iron and spiral-welded steel pipe for the waterworks industry and high-frequency-welded steel pipe for the oil and natural gas industries. The company’s diversified product line also includes high-performance fire pumps, structural casing and piling, castings for large machinery and specialty rubber products.
