There is a big difference between being part of an industry and being an industry participant. Little Humtown Products (based in Columbiana, OH) has followed the latter path for many years as a full-service supplier to the foundry industry. Last fall, for instance, Humtown Sales Manager Brandon Lamoncha participated in a manufacturing innovation roundtable hosted by America Makes (an American Foundry Society partner institute) and attended by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker.
Humtown is a family-owned business that opened in 1959 and specialized as a pattern shop (making replicas of objects to be cast) for several years. Eventually, though, the company expanded its services to better meet the needs of foundries throughout the Midwest.