June 2013
| Business World Magazine | 149
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity,” observed Einstein. For two
brothers who have continually capitalized on opportunity, earning re-
spect throughout the manufacturing industry in the process, the road to
professional success may have begun with a few slips on the ice and trials-
by-fire, but such setbacks couldn’t stop them from transforming a Mas-
sachusetts-based enterprise into a world-leading provider of aluminum
castings which have proven crucial to helping other industries overcome
their own engineering difficulties.
For those clinging on the capabilities com-
pelled by advances in the manufacturing of
computer chips, or for those whose lives have
benefitted by the just-in-time diagnostics de-
ployed by medical imaging devices; for those
who draw inspiration from the efficient il-
lumination of an LED lighting system, and
yes, even for those that revel in the repast of
a good hamburger without suspicion about
the sanitary conditions of the mechanism
used to process the meat – a word of special
thanks should be shared for a Palmer, Mas-
sachusetts, company that has played an im-
portant role in the fulfilling of all those pro-
cesses.
Palmer Foundry has taken the trade craft
of casting into corridors of industry once
imagined as inaccessible to the practitioners
in such processes; a methodology that in-
volves molten aluminum and alloys poured
