Hickman, Williams & Company is an employee-owned business that services metals producers with a range of products, including foundry coke, ferroalloys, briquetted alloys, specialty metals carbon additives, abrasives, fused silica and metal filters. The company also provides coal and coke products and injection and cored wire systems. Founded in 1980, it serves clients in the metal industry. Hickman, Williams & Company maintains full-service offices and more than 50 warehousing facilities in North America. Its equipment division develops, manufactures and services post inoculant feeders and inoculator cored wire feeding units that are standards for precise and automatic metal control for foundries, steel mills and nonferrous operations.