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Our
History
 J. L. Johnson started
J. L. Johnson and Sons Foundry in 1936 with a
small cupola and a garage he rented for $100 a month. For 15 years he
made weights for window sashes. Sash weights were used in home and
building construction to counterbalance the weight of windows, making
them easier to open and close. |
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 By 1950, J.L. Johnson
and Sons was incorporated and had purchased the Decatur Foundry, Inc.
In 1951 they switched from making window weights, which were becoming
obsolete, to making cast iron annealing pots which are used in the heat
treatment of castings. |
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| Sufficient
quantities
of pots would be cast to take care of a customer's needs for
months in advance. The pots would be stored for the customer in our
store yard, and delivered as needed, anywhere in the U.S.A., with our
fleet of trucks. |
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 In
the 1970's, under President Henry R. Young, the Decatur Foundry
expanded
into supplying gray and ductile iron castings to pump, valve and
electric
motor industries. Henry Young, who joined the foundry in 1956, became
president in 1975 and retired in August of 1994.
The firm is now operated under a management team that includes his
sons,
Terry Young, as President, and Tom Young, as Vice President. |
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