Up to 200 workers will be out of work or can relocate to Texas when an East Oakland foundry closes beginning this spring, officials with the company McWane announced recently.

McWane does business as AB&I Foundry, located at 7825 San Leandro St., near the Oakland Coliseum. AB&I is the largest manufacturer of cast iron soil pipe and fittings in the western U.S., and has been in Oakland since 1906, according to the company’s Facebook page.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.