5.8.11.2Vertical
Metal Casting & Foundry
Foundries producing iron, steel, and non-ferrous metal castings.
Market snapshot
These figures describe Metal Fabrication & Machining (5.8.11), the segment that Metal Casting & Foundry sits within — not Metal Casting & Foundry on its own.
- Market size
- ~$412B
- Growth
- ~6.0%CAGR (2017–22, nominal)
- Companies
- ~52,700
FragmentationHighly fragmentedEstimate
U.S. Census Bureau 2022 CBP/Economic Census, NAICS 332 (fabricated metal products), excluding plumbing fixtures (332913/332998, under HVAC & Building Equipment), ammunition/ordnance (332992–332994, under Aerospace & Defense), and metal cans/containers (332431/332439, under Packaging & Print).
Business model & economics
Revenue model
Custom fabrication and contract-machining work
Key economics
- Recurring revenue
- Moderate
- EBITDA margin
- Job-shop economics; richer for precision/specialty
- Capex intensity
- Moderate
recurring OEM and contract supply
Characteristics
- Largest, most fragmented manufacturing segment.
- Vast base of job shops and contract fabricators.
- The archetypal PE roll-up arena.
M&A deal context
Deal activityHigh
Who’s acquiring
- PE-backed precision-machining platforms
- Metal-fabrication strategics
- Specialty & component consolidators
What’s driving deals
- Roll-up amid generational ownership transition.
- Reshoring and manufacturing-capex demand.
- Automation and precision-machining capability.
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